Prostitution
Belle de Jour is really... a scientist with a PhD? Hey, Spiderman was really a photojournalist.
The jig is up. Belle de Jour, the former prostitute behind the popular column "Diary of a London Call Girl" and TV series "Secret Diary of a Call Girl" is really British research scientist Dr. Brooke Magnanti, 34. Dr. Magnanti gave the oldest reason for turning to the oldest profession -- to pay for her PhD. Lemondrop: Text Message Analysis Leads to PhD
She came forward now allegedly out of fear that an ex-boyfriend might out her. Not even her literary agent knew who she really was.
"It was time. I've felt so much guardedness and paranoia about remaining anonymous recently," … Read More
An economist can assign a much different dollar value for men & women for marriage.
The Beatles declared that you "Can't Buy Me Love" (as did Patrick Dempsey) but that doesn't mean you can't put a price on it. According to Paul Frijters of Australia's Queensland University (per the Sidney Morning Herald) marriage is worth approximately A$32,000 (that's $30,000 in US dollars) in happiness to a man, and A$16,000/$15,000 to a lady. Read : Can You Buy Happiness?
Essentially, the act of getting married makes a man equally happy as getting lump payments equaling $30,000. The analysis goes on to mention that men feel like divorce is like losing A$110,000 of … Read More
Plus-size chick lit characters, angst of the married man, and a new match for Lindsay Lohan.
10 must-click love and relationship links.
Chick lit trend: Curvy heroines who are happy with their bodies. [TresSugar]
Chris Brown spoke with Larry King, now Rihanna will speak with Diane Sawyer. The singer's first interview since Brown assaulted her to air on Good Morning America this week. [HuffPo]
Would you move across the country for someone after a first date? Read what happened when this woman did! [Smitten]
Michael Lohan would really like his daughter, Lindsay Lohan, to start dating his friend, Jon Gosselin. [LimeLife]
The big question while living in the digital age: To text or call? [Nerve]
5 horrifying things you … Read More
Sometimes Phillies fans make bad decisions on Craigslist.
Periodically, people say things like, "I would give my left ball if the Red Sox win the World Series," or, "I would totally give you a blow-y if you would give me a massage." Only periodically do we mean these things. Which is a shame because holding people to things they say is one the greatest pants-on pleasures that life has to offer. Which is mildly ironic considering the warm water that a Philadelphia Phillies fan got into over saying something a little inflammatory regarding her love for her team.
Per FoxSports.com, a woman named Susan Finkelstein posted an … Read More
Men dating online don't mind a few extra pounds, but Ashley Dupre thinks you're a hypocrite.
Good news, bad news, non-news time.
First, the good news/bad news. A survey by dating site Date.com stated that 90 percent of women polled felt that men couldn't see past women being a little heavy. But the dudes surveyed overwhelmingly thought bigger can be beautiful—85 percent appreciated a bit of something to grab onto. Roughly 54 percent of the husky-hunters felt that curvier gals were better in bed. Echoing decades of locker room sentiment, 80 percent of the questioned men felt that larger women would be more appreciative of attention and generally less bee-otch-y than their svelte … Read More
Why one mom sets up young girls with rich older men, and believes it can help you find love.
Simone Dadoun-Cohen is an entrepreneur, former exotic dancer, wife, mother of three, and pot-stirrer. Her website, EstablishedMen.com, seems recession-proof, as it counts over 250,000 affluent men and beautiful young women among its members. One of the only "Sugar Daddy" sites with a female at the helm, Established Men was recently profiled on Nightline, which posed the question as to whether Dadoun-Cohen is a thinly veiled pimp of sorts.
Judge for yourself. Fresh from an infomercial shoot for Established Men, Simone Dadoun-Cohen filled us in on matters men and mommyhood.
Momlogic: Tell me how you came up with the idea … Read More
It's all fun and games until someone gets shot in the chest.
There's nothing wrong with a hot-n-heavy game of dirty cowboy. And according to Deborah Yvette Parker, that's all she and her commonlaw husband, Broderick Craig Crachian, were partaking in when he died of an accidental gunshot wound to the chest. I Wanna Be A Cowboy (& You Can Be My Cowgirl)
Describing her as "extremely distraught," Parker's court-appointed attorney, Murray Newman, explained to the Houston Chronicle that: "She loves him, and this is just a terrible accident. My understanding is she was one hundred percent cooperative with the police and very forthcoming in everything she told them."
Among … Read More
In Germany, prostitutes love the Earth. In New Zealand, they love Olympic athletes.
None of you likely saw The Godfather Part III (and proud I am of you), but I'm feeling a little like Michael Corleone right now: "Just when I thought I was out… they pull me back in." I thought I could give the hookers-with-a-heart-of-gold beat a rest but, so far, I've had no such luck. These stories are just too good.
First of all, when you need innovation, look to a German. German Johns (Hans, if you will) had too big of a carbon footprint for the likes of some German prostitutes. So, the hookers took matters into their own … Read More
Amsterdam prostitutes deserve credit. And Oklahoma City woman's interesting potato chip barter.
While porn and prostitution, in and of themselves, are only tangentially related to YourTango's mandate to improve love lives and relationships, they do play some role in sex and sexuality. With my A sufficiently C-ed, here's the latest on people who have sex for money:
Per Reuters, Amsterdam-area prostitutes have credit problems. No, they haven't been lending too much credit to clients (I'd imagine that, like Biggie Smalls' 10 Crack Commandments, sex workers have a similar stance on credit—i.e. you don't want to get high on your own supply). While business (the old in-and-out) has been fine and … Read More
What Dads teach us, prostitutes, and what sighs say.
Love Bytes: Three must-click sex, love and relationship links.
Men, women and the language of sighing. [DivineCaroline]
If men and women don't speak a common language, it is the language of sighs. Any woman knows that a sigh isn't just a sigh. It's a sign.
10 things Dads teach us about sex, without even trying. [EmandLo]
Would you date a man who's paid for sex with a prostitute? [TresSugar]
