Youngish to middle-aged men owe a lot to both Sports Illustrated and Kathy Ireland.
What do Anne Vyalitsyna, Bar Refaeli and Gisele Bundchen have in common? OK, they've all been introduced to the business end of Mr. Leonardo DiCaprio's Titanic, but they are largely famous for gracing the cover and pages of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue.
While print media has been taking a thumping, the SI's SI has been chugging right along. Like the Super Bowl, the Swimsuit Issue started in the 1960s, shows up in early February and is a MUST for big money advertisers. Where the Super Bowl and the Swimsuit Issue differ, however, is that one … Read More
He's flirting with my wife and the wilting power of girly decorations.
The web periodically has some pretty outstanding stuff about love, sex and all that good stuff. Here's the best of last week:
As you likely know, Lori Gottlieb is burning up the webs with her book Marry Him: The Case For Settling For Mr. Good Enough. And she wrote a fantastic article for us about the topic: Read: How To Fall In Love With Mr. Good Enough
Speaking of Marry Him, my bud Simone Grant sounds off on the idea of having it all and modern feminism, sorta. Having it all sounds really great up until "all" includes the … Read More
We interview Em & Lo about their hit TV-show-turned DVD.
If you're familiar with writing about love, sex and everything in between, you probably know Em & Lo. What you may not know, unless you get UK Channel 5, is that they turned their best-selling 2008 book, Sex: How To Do Everything, into a TV mini-series. Each of the 10 episodes includes interviews, advice and demonstrations for men, women and couples. I had a chance to interview them about the show and their experience creating it. Click here to purchase the DVD.
Why did you turn the best-selling 2008 book, Sex: How To Do Everything, into a … Read More
Apple's iPad isn't the only branding fail.
As you likely know, Apple Inc. recently put out what will surely be the greatest product of all time: the unfortunately named iPad. And the jokes abounded. Obviously, a fantastic thing could overcome a terrible name but, like Howard Dean's 2004 screech, it digs a hole almost too difficult to crawl out of. Read: Apple iPad A Big Hit On Twitter, Period
A few companies have recently taken the unprecedented step of changing venerable old names because they sounded so ridiculous in a contemporary setting.
- Per Yahoo! News, an old Canadian magazine called The Beaver … Read More
Underrated rom-coms, thinking like a man and when to meet in real life.
The Internet, as always, has been brimming with outstanding content in the love and relationships realm. I found them so you wouldn't have to.
Evidently, men and women DO NOT think the same way. The Frisky thinks ladies can use that to their advantage and romance it up like a bro. I would like to note that the hole in a bucket of popcorn trick doesn't work for chicks.
One of the resident duders at Lemondrop wonders if you can meet a worthwhile lady in a bar. Kudos for mentioning the magnetic power of Nudie Touch (Erotic Photo … Read More
President Cristina Fernandez of Argentina likes a little swine for getting in the mood.
In the classic comedy National Lampoon's European Vacation, a young Rusty says to Clark (Chevy Chase), "Dad, I think he's going to pork her." After spending years, in vain, begging adults to tell me what "pork her" meant, I found out and eventually gave up eating piggy food altogether (and am therefore ineligible to get the Swine Flu, I believe). Read: If We Stop Kissing Then Swine Flu Wins
With that as prologue, I nearly had 7-Up spew out of my nose when I read a crazy headline from Reuters. The story goes that the president … Read More
Twitter has managed to turn the Applie iPad into a running feminine hygiene joke.
By now you're probably aware that Apple's new computing machine has debuted. Unfortunately, the device is being called the iPad. Read: iPad? Meh. 10 Apple Products We Want More
Products with the name "pad" have a certain connotation, and that connotation is rather yonic in a monthly kinda way. Any reference, even inadvertent, to feminine hygiene will send almost all unmarried men running for the hills. Frankly, announcements like this give Twitter its raison d'etre.
The Twitter community really got hot and heavy with plays on words for the device, which will retail for between $500 and $1,000, depending on configuration, … Read More
This cold and flu season may be full of secrets and exaggerations.
Evidently, it's cold and influenza season. This was made very clear to me these past few days when the young ladies at the hospital would only let a pair of people in my sister's post-natal recovery room.
Cold and influenza season is a real problem for romance. Singles can just forget about getting any action, because mucus is gross and bright red noses are only adorable if you're full of booze and only then if you're the former president of Russia. But the going steady, engaged and married crowds are in a different boat. A boat floating in Tylenol … Read More
A New Hampshire man gets ripped off AND arrested after paying for sex.
All guys have been there before. You pay for a nice dinner, a trip to the cinema and perhaps a horse-drawn carriage through the park (or some burgers, a couple of forties and a little Dance Dance Revolution) and, at the end of the night, you go in for a hug / kiss and possibly something x'tra. And then, all you get is a hug with the same amount of warmth and eroticism as the handshake after a bad job interview. If the guy doesn't really dig the gal, he thinks, at least for one cheap, shameful moment, "Wow, … Read More
Two pair of Olympians learn the truth about couples skating.
As you likely know, the winter Olympic games are coming up next month and one the most popular Olympic events is paired figure skating (though I prefer the winter Biathlon—skiing and skeet-shooting event—and drinking in a hot tub. It's a game of grace, synergy and athleticism and generally leaves the uninitiated viewer with these two outbursts, "That was amazing," and, "If he's not nailing her, he's probably gay, right?" Well, that fan is half-right and half-wrong. Per the LA Times, Jeremy Barrett's on-the-ice partner is the 16-year old Caydee Denney and his off-the-ice partner is Amanda Evora, whose on-the-ice … Read More





