Couples like Rupert and Wendi Murdoch make sense when you understand the Chinese approach to love.
Part of the reason Wendi Deng Murdoch's "slap heard round the world" made such an impact was that it seemed to suggest "I love my husband," rather than "I love my husband's money"—the latter being the assumption most people would make about any marriage with a 38-year age gap, especially when the older person is wealthy and powerful. In China, the reaction to that slap was no less surprised, but unlike in the West, this was not the first time the Chinese masses found reason to praise Wendi Deng's marriage to Murdoch and his business empire. The first came when she married Murdoch in the first place. It's good to be reminded that all the things we take for granted about how relationships should be approached, about what we should expect from men and love and marriage, about age differences and levels of attraction—as in the case of Wendi and Rupert Murdoch—are mere accidents of life and experience and culture. This is what I learned as a Westerner living and dating in Beijing, at least.
A new study suggests there's a link between a man's motivation to mate and go to war.
According to a recent study published in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, researchers suggest there’s a link between a man’s motivation to mate and his interest or support in war.
Your marriage could be more sexy, China hates cheaters and other news from the world of marriage.
This week, the internet was all abuzz (or should we say atwitter?) about Groupon's first marriage proposal and that the Mormon's think that there are real benefits to waiting until marriage for sex. But you might have missed some even better posts about marriage and porn, getting your sexy on in your marraige bed and how to blanance your marriage and social media. You thought the last one was also going to be about sex, didn't you?
A Chinese couple recently ended up in jail on their wedding day, all because of Twitter.
Watch what you retweet—Twitter, it seems, could wreck your nuptials. Case in point: The UPI is reporting that a Chinese human rights activist, Cheng Jianping, was arrested on what was meant to be her wedding day, all because she retweeted her fiance's politically-charged tweet.
To date the Chinese government has had a one-child policy, they shutdown a sex theme park before it got off the ground, they're making a major push for safe sex and they've clamped down on internet dating sites on grounds of prostitution. And now they're taking a little different approach to the love lives of their soldiers; they are clamping down on what their soldiers do online… including but not limited to online dating.
A Chinese woman hopes to win back ex-boyfriend with plastic surgery to look like Jessica Alba.
While Facebook users play with the celebrity Doppelganger application that matches their face with a famous guy or gal's, one woman in China is taking it to another level: getting plastic surgery to look like Jessica Alba... with the intended purpose of winning her boyfriend back. Xiaoqing, a 21-year-old from China, wants to get plastic surgery to look like Jessica Alba in order to win back an ex-boyfriend who is obsessed with the Hollywood actress.
A sex-themed park in Chongqing (in the special municipality of Chongqing) was demolished by the order of Chinese authorities before it could open its doors to the public. The park is called "Love Land" and was invested in heavily by a businessman named Lu Xiaoqing. The goal of Mr. Lu's project was to educate park-goers about sexuality in general and sexual practices of exotic locales specifically.
Who needs health class when you can ride out sex education at an amusement park?
While not known for its sexual progressiveness, China has plans of steaming up its image and opening a bawdy sex-themed amusement park called Love Land.Love Land boasts a genital sculpture garden of sorts, sex education, exhibitions, "technique" classes, and we're hoping some sort of intercourse-related roller coasters, but no word yet on the "rides."
Not surprisingly, this is leaving some Chinese ruffled, complaining the display are "vulgar" and will "make people sick." Who wants to eat lunch amongst a carved penis or vagina, they wonder.
Those spearheading the theme park, however, say this is only for China's good. The park manager, Lu Xiaoqing, thinks the country needs to loosen up when it comes to sex, lamenting that while 60% of China's young people engage in premarital sex, only a heartbreaking 28% of women report experiencing orgasms. Li Yinhe, an expert on sexual attitudes at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences hopes this will usher in a more relaxed attitude toward sex as well. Historically, she says, Chinese aren't prudish but became so do to an influence of Western religious beliefs and a few abstinent-happy dynasties. It's time for China to bring sexy back, she thinks.
Multicultural weddings: learn how to make yours a global affair.
LoveFeed discusses how to have a unique and worldly wedding using such resources as The Knot.com. Learn how weddings work in countries such as Sweden and China, and get inspired to incorporate traditions from around the globe into your big day.
Sex and The City writer learns how singles date around the world.
The LoveFeed reviews Liz Tuccillo's webisodes "How To Be Single." The He's Just Not That Into You co-author and Sex and The City writer traveled around the globe to study dating attitudes and rituals outside the U.S.
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