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A pair of communication studies researchers surveyed men and women on their courtship styles to understand why some women fall for “Pickup Artist” tactics that revolve around aggressive flirting that isolate them away from peers and often preys on possible insecurities.
If you’re short on cash but want to go on a dinner date with someone, here’s a money-saving tip: Don’t ask out any stone cold foxes. Instead stick with someone who’s attractive enough, that way he or she won’t be evolutionarily inclined to expect a free meal. This (admittedly questionable) advice is based on Science & Data, too, so don’t hate the blogger — i.e. me — hate the evolutionary biology.
The function of marriage in modern society is being closely reexamined now, as people wait longer to tie the knot, household gender dynamics tip toward more female breadwinners and a rising proportion of babies are born beyond the bounds of wedlock.
This marital shakeup has given rise to the “semimarriage,” writes Pamela Haag in her book “Marriage Confidential“.
When discussing the concept of love at first sight on the most recent Stuff Mom Never Told You episode, Molly and I speak solely from the perspective of being able to actually see the object of attraction. But how might that instant magnetism change if you’re blind? According to one blind man’s account, it seems that ‘love at first sight’ then becomes ‘love at first sound’.
Dating Science: Who Pays on the First Date?
by Cristen Conger | April 21, 2011
Heterosexual dating customs say the guy should be ready to whip out the wallet on the first date, but isn’t that a little antiquated? Perhaps, but a 2007 Salon interview with famed anthropologist Helen Fisher indicates that heteros might be biologically “hard-wired” for this fiscal arrangement, rather than just tethered to outmoded courting rituals.
Salad Days for the Mail-Order Bride Business
by Cristen Conger | February 28, 2011
Long ago on Stuff Mom Never Told You, Molly and I discussed whether mail-order brides still exist. The short answer is yes, services matching men with international women (often from Eastern Europe) certainly still exist. And according to a recent BusinessWeek story, the mail-order bride business has benefited from the recession.
When I started by Facebook account, I was freshly out of a relationship, so I filled in “single” in the relationship status field. A few minutes later, I decided I didn’t want any status whatsoever. So I removed it.
Then Facebook alerted my fledgling group of friends that “Cristen Conger is no longer single.”
Like Tracy, I was slightly enraged by Kay S. Hymowitz’s smug deconstruction of the modern “pre-adult” male she described in her Wall Street Journal piece, Where Have the Good Men Gone?. But not so much because she incorrectly paints men with a love of ‘Star Wars’ and Cartoon Network programming as overgrown college co-eds but [...]
Our office was closed for President’s Day yesterday, which means I’ve had a whole extra day to mull over the Wall Street Journal’s Saturday essay, “Where have all the good men gone?” It’s a look at gender and relationships that might ordinarily be more at home in Stuff Mom Never Told You, but a quote, early on, caught my eye. Kay S. Hymowitz quotes from a book by Julie Klausner called “I Don’t Care About Your Band: What I Learned from Indie Rockers, Trust Funders, Pornographers, Felons, Faux-Sensitive Hipsters and Other Guys I’ve Dated,” which describes “guys” and seems to make a link between being a geek and not being an adult.
Don’t have a date for Valentine’s day? This is one of those “before and after” pictures that points out the difference that clothes and a haircut can make: Before and after Here is the same kind of image, but not quite as dramatic: Before and after The actor is Joseph Gordon-Levitt. It reminds me of [...]
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