Love Bytes: Five must-click sex, love and relationship links.

8 woman-approved pickup tips. [Asylum]

For men, attraction is a knob that can be switched on and off. You see a woman and you are either attracted to her or you're not and once the switch is flipped on, it's not likely to flip off again.

Should the wives of pro athletes, or rock stars and politicians for that matter, expect their husbands to cheat? [Lemondrop]

Do men really enjoy being in a relationship with a woman who is a... really mean person? [Em & Lo]

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Although there's still a certain inexplicable stigma attached to it, I am a huge proponent of online dating. I met my long-term boyfriend that way and the majority of weddings I've been to over the past couple years have been for couples who've met via the internet.

So whenever I hear a friend whine about how they never meet anyone, I give them the online spiel. Heck, Nerve.com should be paying me a commission because I've talked so many people into joining. Read: 365 Days of Online Dating

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Love Bytes: three must click  love, sex and relationship links.

What girls and guys want from each other in relationships, as told by Google. [CollegeHumor]

How responsible should your boyfriend be if you get pregnant? [The Frisky]

It takes two to get pregnant, but a woman has control over her body and holds all the decision making power as to whether she continues that pregnancy. If a guy isn’t ready to be a dad, should he have to bear the emotional and financial responsibility of one?

Can your vagina be allergic to your boyfriend? [Lemondrop]

Love Bytes: three must-click sex, dating and relationship links.

So you want to Google your ex (or already have). Read on. [Divine Caroline]

At some point, don't we all wonder, whether we loved them, hated them, broke their hearts, or had ours broken, what he's been up to? Wondered how many kids he has? Wondered if he’s thought of you? And come on, if you haven’t thought, "I wonder if his wife is fat?" then you should stop reading this now, because clearly, you are too good of a person to be googling your ex.

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Anyone who's ever been on a grownup first date knows one thing: it's like a godamnded job interview. And not like one of the old school job interviews in which you basically have all the questions down pat ("If anything, I'm too focused on being a top performer and need to figure out a work-life balance"). But grownup first (early) dates are like those new-fangled interviews in which they use the Socratic irony to find out how much you really know. And it's not just what you say but how you say it (personally, I have a really … Read More

This past weekend, the New York Times' Social Q's column published a letter from a woman who wanted to know: "At what point in the dating process is it correct to perform a background check on a prospective partner?"Their answer: Um, never. Just get to know the person, you crazy harpie. We're kidding, of course. They didn't use the word "person." Their real answer: "Feel free to consult a private eye anytime after you feel that certain spring in your step, but safely prior to sharing your Social Security number or the secret code to your A.T.M. card."Ah, yes, … Read More

According to The Inquirer, Apple has followed Google's lead and donated money to fight California's Proposition 8 (the gay marriage bill). Does PC have to give money in favor of Prop 8 now? While Google's bosses say one thing, their ad network continues to serve anti gay marriage ads on gay social networks, per blogoscoped. And lest you think California is the only sunshine-y state with gay marriage on the brain, Florida has Amendment 2 on the ballot this time around. Its goal is to define marriage as between a man and … Read More

Google's test lab has created a filter for Gmail users in the habit of second-guessing the content of the e-mails they send late at night.

While exhaustion or too many glasses of wine may be sitting on one shoulder, all dressed in red with pitchfork in hand, urging you to e-mail your ex or tell your new Match.com date what kind of engagement ring you fantasize about, Google's "Mail Goggles" is the angel on your other shoulder telling you to slow down and think twice before hitting send. An alternative name could be G.A.D.E (Google Against Drunk … Read More

Google's test lab has created a filter for Gmail users in the habit of second-guessing the content of the e-mails they send late at night.

While exhaustion or too many glasses of wine may be sitting on one shoulder, all dressed in red with pitchfork in hand, urging you to e-mail your ex or tell your new Match.com date what kind of engagement ring you fantasize about, Google's "Mail Goggles" is the angel on your other shoulder telling you to slow down and think twice before hitting send. An alternative name could be G.A.D.E (Google Against … Read More

Online dating threw me an unexpected curveball: my career.

As a professional writer, I gave men an easy topic to make conversation about in their initial flirtacious emails: "Where do you work? What do you write about?" The problem is, these men already knew my first name was Jessica; I knew that as soon as I gave them any other clue about my work, they'd be off and Googling. That's certainly what I did to a fellow JDating journalist who worked at a major entertainment magazine told me he once interviewed Blake Lively: it took … Read More