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.
Call them "manx": Or, the male equivalent of Spanx. Those fashion-forward slimming undergarments that made it possible for the curvy among us to wear clingy jersey all last summer. As men embrace the metrosexual movement (and, it must be noted, grow just as neurotic as us), companies are racing to keep pace with their increasing self-consciousness, and the latest innovation is muffin-top eradicating underwear for him.
Thanks to our friends at thefrisky.com for recommending this metacafe.com video. It validates every single first date trepidation we've ever had.
According to researchers at the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Indiana University, women got the most classifications right. Looking at the men, they noticed that a few patterns emerged: Not only were guys more likely to interpret friendly gestures as sexual overtures, they also did the converse, reading actual come-ons as signs that you "just wanted to be friends." (Call it the Have It Your Way Theorem.)
There's been a lot of talk lately about what constitutes $4,000 sex. And the question that still seems to be haunting women—long after l'affaire Spitzer has fizzled—is: one diamond, two diamond, three diamond, four—what's so special about bedding a whore?After careful analysis, we've concluded: Not much. Which is why we've rounded up everything you need to unleash your inner hooker. Not that we're suggesting you turn tricks. (No, not even if you don't wind up getting a tax refund.) After all, we can all agree that men paying for prostitutes is so...last week.
Who pays on a first date? Even in 2008, it's a loaded issue—and not in the sense of whether the guy you're out with is or isn't. Even among experienced daters, deciding who should pick up the check stirs up complicated emotions.In the video above, Tango asked a few ordinary civilians—and recently ELLE/MSNBC.com did too, in the form of their sex and money survey. 74,000 respondees, and still no definitive answer. But according to Piper Weiss, in today's Daily News, a few interesting themes did emerge.
Just when you think you've deep-sixed one seriously depraved New York politician, accusations arise that another was not only secretly gay, but, oh by the way, he and his wife were having threesomes with his driver long before he ever came out. (Not that that in itself is necessarily depraved.) Hmm. Like we said, love rarely resembles a 50's sitcom. And we don't pretend to know what Silda should do with her Eliot, which is why we put the question to you:
Tango suggests some conversation topics to make your first date a little less awkward. Such as...Sports: What's his favorite hometown team? News: Was what Spitzer did amoral or perfectly normal? Ego Boost: Can he explain the whole foreclosure issue to l'il ole you?
Take a time out and find out your unique love persona. Wild Rose? Peach? Stiletto? What is your inner dater?
According to Dr. Teela Sanders, a writer and lecturer at the University of Leeds, and the author of Paying For Pleasure: Men Who Buy Sex, 30% of men (in England, anyway) will buy sex at some point in his life. . . and we're not talking porn. She delves into the who (anyone), where (all over), and why (lots of reasons) that married men do this. Bill Clinton and Eliot Spitzer are prime examples of guys seeking something outside of their marriage who have no interest in divorce. Dr. Sanders also discusses why women are expected to "stand by your man."
