Starting Over
Is sexual anorexia the flip side of sex addiction? We asked the experts.
Can you compare our desire for sexual intimacy to, say, our need for food? And, if so, is sexual anorexia the opposite of sex addiction?
Believe it or not, even though "lack of sex" isn't an official cause of death, experts are divided on this issue. The question recently popped up in the New York Times: A reader asked whether willingly "starving yourself" with too little sex is a real disorder (not just something that happens when you're too depressed to leave your house because you've just been dumped, it's snowing and Real Housewives of Dallas is on. Why isn't … Read More
Winning him back rarely starts with an embarrassing phone call.
Occasionally, he has a good reason for not calling you back. Generally, the reason involves lycanthropy, alien abduction or the velociraptor flu. But, for the most part, things must not be working if he's not calling. Sometimes, you really just need to talk after a breakup, irrespective of who initiated it. If you absolutely can't help but call him, here are 25 ways that you do not want to start that desperate phone call (please finish all of them with "can we get back together now?"):
- I was just crunching chips loudly and thought you … Read More
How To Shop For A Husband author tells us how to find a good man.
"Why isn't she married?" That's what people used to say about me. I'll admit it.
Are you someone people say that about? Do you know someone like that? Then you have to read my new book, How to Shop For a Husband, which comes out this week. I spent years crossing guys off my potential dating list because I didn't like the way they ate their yogurt or I hated the shoes they wore. Then I would date all the wrong guys: you know, the cute ones who had no interest in settling down. And I would … Read More
Bravo TV star Kelly Cutrone wants women to know: shopping for adult toys is healthy and fun!
Tonight, Bravo will air their latest episode of Kell on Earth, in which Kelly Cutrone takes a trip to Babeland, one of our absolute favorite (sex) toy shops. Bravo initially wasn't going to air that segment of the episode—supposedly because it didn't fit in seamlessly with the storyline—but Cutrone put her foot down and some quick editing was done. Because everyone's favorite fashion PR guru wanted women to know: shopping for sex toys is fine…and fun! The Best Sex Toys for Singles
Cutrone tells Babeland, "Our show is about women and power, and now housewives are going … Read More
Who gets the ring in a broken engagement? Who gets the self-worth?
Some ladies see a guy with an open heart and a little change in his pocket and think: Keeper! Swoon. And then there are others who see that same guy and think, "I'm gonna play this chump for a sucker and sell his telescope for pot." Unfortunately, a well-meaning ophthalmologist found the latter.
Per DNAInfo.com, Eye Doctor, MD (AKA Dr. Roger Adler) of Ohio was pressured into becoming engaged to a gal named Capricious McBait-And-Switchy (AKA Rena Friedman) after only six weeks of dating. After the betrothal, things quickly went downhill. In addition to the $58,000 engagement ring … Read More
We know the secret types of men you're totally into.
What's your type? Tall, dark and handsome, with a good sense of humor? Yeah, right. Lemondrop: Is Instant Lust a Dating Must?
According to a new poll, women may say that's what they want, but what they really get hot for is a slightly chunky, hairy guy with a propensity to cry during movies. Or so 2,500 women told one polling firm.
The data collected by onepoll.com found that "a little stubble" is women's number one turn-on, followed by a "geeky" personality and a hairy chest. (Gray hair and crying during movies were also among the secret peccadilloes.) Women … Read More
Where can you find better marriage advice than from couples married more than 50 years.
New relationships are always exciting. From the first kiss to the first time you go away together, everything he does always feels sweet and new—but the "honeymoon phase" can only last so long, right?
Not always! That's why we sought out advice from five couples who've definitely kept the flame alive.
On Feb. 12, Brooklyn celebrated New York City couples who have been married 50 years or more, and I dropped by the El Caribe restaurant, where the luncheon was held, to ask the celebrated sweethearts how they breathed life into a relationship after all these years. After all, we were always … Read More
Where can you meet single men? Five places to meet good guys.
I was having a conversation with one of my single female friends the other day—in fact, I was having the conversation with her, since it's one that I seem to have with all the single women I know at some point or another. We were trying to figure out what kind of guy she should go for, who would make her happy for the long haul and where she should find him. 6 Secret Places To Meet Men
Normally I'm pretty stumped when this topic comes up. How can you tell who's going to be a good guy? Beats … Read More
A kiss can mean so many things; our field guide decodes the most important lip locks.
There are many different ways to kiss your lover, and all of them can communicate something different about what or how you're feeling. Here's a field guide to the major types of kisses, and what you're saying with each of them.
1. Peck. Sounds innocent, doesn't it? But this quick lip-on-lip contact still sends a message. The primary one? "I want to kiss you and—hopefully, sometime soon—make out, but it's early and we're not there yet, so this peck on the lips is a suggestion that there is to be much more smooching in our future."
2. Pehhhck. A lingering, closed-mouth kiss … Read More