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Six places to meet women, learning about feminism from your ex-boyfriend and feeling sexy.
Love Bytes: 10 must-click love and relationship links.
It's Friday (Hallelujah!), and what better way to celebrate than with a minute or two of the adorable John Krasinski. Check him out as he talks about his new movie, Brief Interviews With Hideous Men — the newly released film about a recently-broken-up-with guy who conducts a series of interviews with men in an effort to understand what drives their behavior. [theFrisky]
Check out six secret places to meet women. [Asylum]
At 19, is Soulja Boy ready to get hitched? [Yahoo!Buzz]
Pee-wee Herman appeared on The Jay Leno Show this Tuesday to … Read More
Waiting until marriage to have sex? Know your limits and learn how to deal with men who pressure you to have sex. Matt and Tamsen give advice.
See what others had to say and give advice here: I have limits, how can I make him respect them?
Got a question? Ask it now at http://www.yourtango.com/questions
Featuring America's Love Experts Matt Titus and Tamsen Fadal. http://www.askmattandtamsen.com
Candies has a very confusing new advert. Has this been thought through?
There has been a messy-mess of talk about virgins and abstinence over the past couple of years, much of it confusing. That gal sold her cherry in Nevada brothel for big bucks. Pregnant abstinence promoter Bristol Palin was dragged through the muck. The two camps in the sexual education debate have argued, and will continue to argue, about the merits of abstinence-only versus abstinence-recommended. The much lusted after Jo-Bros and some other Disney cats said they are saving it for marriage with their purity rings. A reporter had the temerity to ask college football … Read More
A five-year marriage with no sex: the true story of a divorced virgin.
I was twenty-nine, single again after a five-year marriage, and a virgin. When I met my now ex-husband Mike, I had just turned 21. We met at small Catholic liberal arts college, and even though I no longer believed in Jesus, the Saints, the Bible, God, really any of that. I was a virgin then, and I was a virgin when we divorced.
When I was younger, I'd wanted to stay pure, and had managed to protect my virginity despite all the high school guys I'd went out with, and the ten or so guys I'd dated in … Read More
Embarrassing marriage proposals, the G-Spot, work romances and involuntary celibacy.
Love Bytes: Five must-click sex, love and relationship links.
16 Embarassing Marriage Proprosals. [BuzzFeed]
Involuntary Celibacy. [Sirens Magazine]
Sometimes when you’re paging through, say, Cosmo, it can feel like everyone in the world—your friends, your neighbors, and, hell, even your second-grade teacher—has a sex life reminiscent of those hot, sweaty, twisted (in the best possible way) scenes in "Unfaithful."
G-Spot, The Spot? [Betty Confidential]
Love The One You Work With. [FNC iMag]
Bondage Tips From The Wedding Crashers. [Nerve]
Male fertility and motility can be increased by having more sex, thanks to science.
You ever been smacked in the face with the perfect solution to a nearly intractable problem? And when the smacking recedes, the red mark on your face is one of disappointment in yourself? And the handprint on that red mark has the word "duh" written in hieroglyphics?
Science has just goon-handed the lot of us across the kisser with this tasty little treat: male fertility can be increased by up to 26% by ejaculating daily (rather 26% of sperm damage can be decreased by b-ing an l on the nightly tip). Per LittleAbout.com, motility (whose lack is … Read More
Vacation romance, celibacy, and having sex on your terms.
Love Bytes: three must-click sex, love and relationship links.
How To Find Romance On Vacation. [Yahoo! Shine]
Having Sex When You Don't Want To: Why You Shouldn't Feel Obligated. [First Wives World]
From that day forward, I didn’t just ‘tolerate’ having sex with my ex-husband, I hated it. But it was my best kept secret. I thought there was something ‘wrong with me,’ like he accused.
Celibacy In The City. [Betty Confidential]
Why JoBro's mom thinks her sons are seducable.
In July's Good Housekeeping issue, the Jonas Brothers' mom, Denise, took it upon herself to publicly discuss her sons' sexual desires. (And you thought your mom was embarrassing.)
The teen heartthrobs have famously pledged to not have sex before marriage, and even wear purity rings to signify this promise.
"They are men. They have desires. They have testosterone," said Denise. "If they make a mistake, I'm not going to hate them. I don't think they're above or beyond being seduced."Read: Virginity Pledge Ineffective
Though their mom says the Jonas Brothers have been hurt emotionally by past relationships, they … Read More
Kenya's women won't go down, if there's going to be a fight.
No sex for you.
That's what many Kenyan women are telling their men after years of governmental tension and threats to revive violence.
According to various reports, thousands in Kenya have vowed to stop intercourse in an attempt to force governmental cooperation. The sex strike began on Wednesday and is expected to run for a week.
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The Women's Development Organization, Kenya's oldest and largest group fighting for women's rights, said they hope the boycott will halt possible resuscitation of the violent killings that rocked the African nation last year. The goal is … Read More
For the second year in a row.
Government statistics show back-to-back increases in the number of American teens, ages 15 to 19, that are having babies.
The latest numbers tallied show that the national birthrate of teens ages 15 to 19 increased 1.4 percent from 2006 to 2007; that's on top of a 3.4 percent climb from 2005 to 2006, reports The Washington Post. These two increases reverse the previous 14-year decline.
The government had been spending a yearly $176 million to federally fund abstinence programs. However, this year Congress sliced that amount by $14 million.
Valerie Huber of the National Abstinence Education Association told WSJ that … Read More