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Moms like Twilight while love comes from an ad with a couple clicks.
Love Bytes: Three must-click sex, love and relationship links.
Robert Pattinson is what mothers' fantasies are made of. [Huffington Post]
I am shocked by this and a little disturbed by this inconsistency in my feminist politics and here's why: These books portray the archetypal barely-civilized man lusting, actually hungering, for a frail and naïve woman. She loves him because he's physically superior—tall, broad-shouldered, the whole Greek god thing, he knows her in a deep way that the rest of the superficial world has overlooked, and best of all, he can beat up anybody who messes with her.
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Research into how men and women respond to sexual messages.
Historically, researchers have found women to be turned off by racy ads showing excessive nudity and sexual language. New experiments are showing, though, that the problem for advertisers may not be that sex doesn't sell to women, but rather that women don't often agree with the way it's portrayed.
Authors of a new study set to appear in the August issue of The Journal of Consumer Research recently tested their hunch that women's reaction to sexy ads would improve if sexual behavior was linked to two “intrinsic” female values: commitment and devotion.
"Findings from our initial experiments were supportive … Read More
Buying advertising time during the Super Bowl for most-viewed personal ad ever.
A former New York advertising exec is raising money with the hope of buying ad time to promote her search for a husband during this season's Super Bowl.
Amy Borkowsky, who lists her age as "somewhere between Carrie and Samantha," is looking for Mr. Right, and what better way to reach a large pool of potential mates than during the XY's must-see televised event? She's been campaigning on her website SuperBowlSingleGirl.com hoping to raise approximately $3 million for the ad spot. Borkowsky has so far raised a mere thousand dollars and only a few open commercial slots remain, … Read More