Tune in: This Sunday marks the final show for Sue Johanson's Talk Sex. The show was borne from a 1984 Canadian radio show, where Johanson spoke on practical advice and STDs. It blossomed into a full-fledged sex-talk show (vibrators, G-spots, and anal, oh my!) on the Oxygen network, which has hosted the program over the last six years.
And Tango Makes Three was published in 2005 and first landed at the top of the American Library Association's list of most challenged books in 2006. The illustrated tale is making headlines again as it leads 2007's list, which is compiled based on the number of formal library complaints filed. The most fascinating part of this outrage: The book is based on the true story of two male chinstrap penguins, Roy and Silo, who successfully hatched the egg of a baby chick, Tango. Keepers at the pair's home, the Central Park Zoo, observed them behaving as a heterosexual penguin couple, and Roy and Silo also ignored any advances from female penguins, who were generally disinterested in them anyway.
I suppose it’s a little TMI that as I was surfing Dear Sugar, I immediately clicked when I saw "Not a Fan of Sex Before Bed? Try This." (Hey, I have a kid. A very time-consuming one.) Let’s just say I can relate. We're not all night owls. And I found the tips somewhat useful, such as:
It's not only my friends, who spent last weekend meeting at least one or three new prospects, while others entertained (or, ahem, exercised) the idea of taking up with someone from the past. It's our single blogger Rajul's post on Monday about her sexy journalist self considering the unexpected advances of a gentlemanly, chauffeur-driven musician. It's ScarJo's possible engagement (breaking Woody Allen's and scores of other men's hearts). It might even be Jessica Simpson's engagement, too. Maybe. Is love actually in the air or has the season gone to my head?
Turns out, it's a three YEAR process.Every year, hundreds of thousands of women take their new husband's names. Not to say the process has become seamless, but it’s less time consuming or involved than filing your taxes. But what if a guy wants to take his wife's name? Common sense says it should be just as easy—but guess again. According to WTLX.com, Michael Buday and Diana Bijon decided to just that, and it took a mere three years to make it official. With the divorce rate as is, it's amazing the couple was still married by the time the paperwork came through...
The Star Tribune reported on a new web site that allows users to see just about everything they might want to know about a neighborhood’s inhabitants—including marital status. Cyberhomes.com lists the number of singles, marrieds, and divorced in any given Zip Code, so if you’re in the market for more than just a house (relationship, perhaps?), the site will clue you in on the areas packed with others looking for love.
If you're going to become a pioneer for interracial marriage, it's helpful to have the last name of Loving. But Mildred Loving didn't like calling attention to herself for that—or the fact that she and her white husband changed history when they took their fight to make love colorblind all the way to the Supreme Court.
For example, do maintain profiles on various sites for maximum exposure. Don't, on the other hand, take it personally if you meet someone for a "running date," and he sprints away from you before you have the chance to do so yourself (this actually happened to a friend). Dating without endorsement from friends, yenta or otherwise means women especially need to tread carefully before letting their guards down. Our friend and dating blogger, Funkybrownchick, created a handy list of how she dates "safely" online.
In another 'wow, science is incredible' story, New York researchers discovered that a woman's voice sounds the most appealing during her most fertile phase of the month. The scientists recorded women counting from one to 10 at four different times of the month. When replayed for both men and women, the voices recorded during ovulation were deemed most attractive. The same voices recorded during periods of lowest fertility were found the least appealing.
One man reveals some useful second-date advice and calls girls out on their bad behavior: "Look, it’s only fair that if we’re feigning interest in your charming, if rambling, monologues about shoes, celebrity gossip, and that new woman at work who eats nothing but cashews and is always wearing something low cut AND SHE’S NOT EVEN WORKING JUST POKING PEOPLE ON FACEBOOK ALL DAY, then you can ask us questions about what we’re watching, listening to, thinking about. Would it hurt you to ask us about our NCAA brackets? No."
