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Obama Girls Dating? Not Without Secret Service

President Obama discusses what teenage life will be like for Malia and Sasha in the White House.

Dating is hard for teenage girls. Dealing with overprotective parents, boys who only want one thing and burgeoning sexual desires can prove difficult. Now imagine that your father is president. There's a big upside: living in the White House, flying in private planes and getting the royal treatment wherever you go. Great, right? The D.C. version of Gossip Girl, even. But with one little addition: men with guns. All the time. For Malia and Sasha Obama, dating would have been hard enough in normal world, but while the perks of daddy being Prez are great and all, the downside will be a constant posse of Secret Service agents. Even on dates. According to the Daily News, although M and S are not yet teens (ages 10 and 7, respectively), President Obama has already addressed what their dating lives will be like when the girls are getting ready for first kisses, under the shirt explorations, and, "everything but," high school hookups.

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5 Kissing Mistakes To Avoid

Good smooch, bad smooch. Is it really that simple?

Is kissing an art, one that can be perfected with practice? According to this LLL post, yes, indeed it is, and there are five mistakes all kissing Casanovas should avoid making, lest they be cast into one of five undesirable, bad-kisser categories. Okay, fair enough. But this does bring up one big question....

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How To Kiss Well

A guy who loves kissing explains why making out is special and how to deal with a bad kisser.

A guy who loves kissing explains how he taught his girlfriends to kiss and love it, why making out is special and how to deal with a bad kisser. "I am an aficionado of the kiss. No other act is so simple and so intimate… A good kiss is a rapport enacted physically, like sex, but more erotic."