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How To Get Hit On

How To Get Hit On

Sadly, just being out and about is not enough to get hit on these days. You have to make a concerted effort. While it would be nice to just hit your local pub and watch the men fight to get to you, those chances are slim. At least if you’re me any way. If that happens to you, you should probably just stop reading now.  I NEVER Get Hit On

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A couple makes out near the port-a-johns in the infield at Preakness 2006.

Get Your Preakness On! 3 Tips For Hooking Up At The Horse Races

Three golden rules for keeping your cool -- and still getting some -- at the horse races this year.

"Growing up in Baltimore, I've attended many infield parties at the second leg of the Triple Crown, the Preakness. Something about that infield makes us all behave like heathens. Don't get me wrong — it's a good time (even though it feels a bit like a war zone). Hook-ups abound, and there are plenty of opportunities to merge with the opposite sex."

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What American men can learn about sex from their Parisian counterparts.

What American Men Can Learn From French Men About Sex

Angry Single Blogger is in Paris, where the men are a bit more upfront about what they want.

Ah! Here I am in Paris, my loves! I thought for the sake of my heart and sanity, I'd do an apartment swap with a woman here for a month and let the healing from my recent breakup begin. And it has begun… I think.

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"Hunger Games" mania officially started at midnight.

Our 5 Favorite "Hunger Games" Pickup Lines

Are you Katniss Everdeen? Cuz you got my District in an uprising.

"Hunger Games" mania officially started at midnight. Are you into it? Or could you care less? Either way, dating site HowAboutWe has some awesome "Hunger Games" pickup lines. Here are some of our faves.

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Sneetches!

Would You Like It In The Dark? 13 Dr. Seuss Pickup Lines

We apologize in advance for defiling children's literature for you.

Darn you, HowAboutWe! We wish we had come up with this first. In honor of Dr. Seuss's 108th birthday, they composed some clever rhyme-y pickup lines in his honor. Not to be outdone, we made up our own.

10 Reasons We're Loving The Viral Video Series, "The Flip Side"
Just a couple ladies hittin' on dudes...

10 Reasons We're Loving "The Flip Side" Videos

These YouTube gems are flipping the bar scene and dating as we know them on their heads.

What would happen if men and women switched gender roles, so that men were the ones getting hit on in the bar and spending their Saturdays obsessively shopping, and women were the ones who had to pay cover, use cheesy pickup lines and leave the toilet seat up?

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7 'Scoring' Tips From Beavis And Butthead

Even "chicks, man" could learn some pickup tips from Beavis and Butthead -- who are back tonight!

Just when we thought nothing could replace Jersey Shore on Thursday nights, MTV rolled out an even more epic show after 15 years of hiatus: Beavis and Butthead, huh, huh.

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Women Who Like One-Night Stands Hate Other Women

New study also says aggressive, prehistoric pick-up tactics work for those seeking casual sex.

Ladies, how do you prefer to be approached by a man? There is surely no single answer to such a question—unless, of course, you're talking about a one-night stand, according to a new study. It claims that when it comes to casual sex, women prefer straightforward and aggressive pick-up tactics, and men are more than willing to deliver them.

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Why Nice Guys Are Still Bad Boys

Classic gentleman or closeted creep? There might not be much of a difference.

The Nice Guy question had always vexed me, because I'm Nice—but really only in comparison to some of these hammers and nails I see in bars, aggressively hitting on you women. (I really don't know how you all deal with it.) Then it struck me one night while I was being Nice to a girl—I want to sleep with her just as much as that a-hole over there does. Which makes me just as much of a creep.

Flirting Mistakes We All Make

Flirting Mistakes We All Make

Can't get a date? Retire your bad flirting technique.

One night, over a shared bottle of wine, she was explaining the finer points of her technique, when a cute guy walked over and poked his head between us. "What are you drinking?" he asked. "What does it look like we're drinking?" I answered snottily. That night was filled with valuable lessons. The main one being, if someone asks you a question—even a dumb one—they're trying to engage you on some level, so don't shoot them down. Here are a few other flirting don'ts I discovered along the way.

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Who's Choosier: Men Or Women?

New research shows it may not be a question of gender. It may come down to this one tiny detail.

The answer as to who, in the romance equation, is pickier when it comes to selecting a mate may come down to a question of who's doing the approaching and who's being approached, regardless of gender, finds a new study from researchers at Northwestern University.