Entries Tagged as 'dating'

Wednesday, March 16th, 2011

The Eligible Bachelor Paradox – Why Weak Bidders Win

Where have all the most appealing men gone? Married young, most of them—and sometimes to women whose most salient characteristic was not their beauty, or passion, or intellect, but their decisiveness. via hookingupsmart.com Check out the rest of the post — lot’s of interesting stuff.

Wednesday, March 16th, 2011

Aspire to be beautiful

And then there are the guys who have seen or visited the women of places like Russia and/or Brazil. Guys always talk about how beautiful the women are and how almost all of them are perfect 10s. How does this tie together? Think about it for a moment. Most men say that all of the [...]

Saturday, March 12th, 2011

Don’t touch me, I’m British

Applying Carroll’s theories to Britons, you understand why foreigners think we are repressed. Americans won’t touch strangers, the French won’t talk to them, but Brits will neither touch nor talk to them. Passport to the Pub, a semi-official guide for foreign tourists to the UK, warns: “Don’t ever introduce yourself. The ‘Hi, I’m Chuck from [...]

Friday, March 11th, 2011

She Don’t Like Firefly

via youtube.com A man’s got to have standards.

Thursday, March 10th, 2011

Would you have sex with Johnny Depp?

In a newly published paper describing a series of studies, University of Michigan psychologist Terri Conley asserts that “when women are presented with proposers who are equivalent in terms of safety and sexual prowess, they will be equally likely as men to engage in casual sex.” Her research suggests women, like men, are motivated by [...]

Monday, January 31st, 2011

Passion Vs. Comfort: Do You Have to Have Fireworks to Have a Successful Relationship?

It’s not impossible to have ANY passion with comfort or ANY comfort with passion. It’s that the two don’t coexist easily. The very thing that ignites passion is friction and instability. Once again, look at your past. Passion is usually brief, intense and rocky. Comfort, on the other hand, tends to be softer and more [...]

Monday, January 31st, 2011

Sucks to be a short dude

prefer taller men, but they’re willing to relax their standards for the Ron Perelmans of the world, as revealed in a study of more than 20,000 online daters by Gunter Hitsch and Ali Hortacsu of the University of Chicago and Dan Ariely of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. They found that a 5-foot-8 man was [...]

Friday, November 19th, 2010

Construction of the Creep

So let’s come back to creep. It’s like, the creep should know that he doesn’t deserve to presume interest. He doesn’t deserve to initiate the approach. Like my adolescent sense of misfit, he should know that he didn’t deserve any better than to take any comer. Creep is a judgement in the eye of the [...]

Friday, November 19th, 2010

Seduction for Feminists

Social “vibing” is when we interact with each other, not just for functional reasons, but to enjoy each other’s company and mutual acceptance. We do it as a low-key way of recharging our batteries. Vibing can include anything from joking around, to telling stories, to discussing interesting topics, to rough and tumbling around, to breaking [...]

Monday, November 15th, 2010

Cee Lo Green – Forget You

via youtube.com Catchy tune. My non-Mormon readers may prefer the NSFW version.