When the London-bred Ben Elman married his Connecticut-born wife on New Year's Eve in 2008, he was inundated with requests from her American friends, desperate to be set up with single, British men. Two years and one aha! moment later, Ben and his wife Becca created DateBritishGuys.com, a dating site geared toward American women looking to meet and date a British guy.
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.
BeautifulPeople.com is a dating site for the beautiful. But don't expect admission if you're British.
Getting vocal during sex isn't a crime—unless you live in England and the noises you make are so loud and disturbing, it "constitutes [as] a statutory nuisance." One woman is now banned from noisy sex throughout all of the United Kingdom.
Rob Newbiggin, a British boxer, faces major emotional challenges with his family as he prepares for life as a she. YourTango's Celebrity Love blog has the details.
The UK's NHS is handing out pamphlets to school children touting "An Orgasm A Day Keeps The Doctor Away." The pamphlet asks the question: why promote healthy eating and exercise and not the maintenance and upkeep of one's sexual organs? They are also saying sex is good form of cardiovascular exercise.
British celebrities are stealthy stealing America's heart. Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Posh & Becks dominate our headlines as much as any Stateside star. Check out YourTango's rundown of the 10 sexiest British celebrities right now as we investigate the question: just what is their status?
Skeptical about what online dating can do for you? You may be surprised...
EDITOR'S NOTE: It's come to our attention that the Mike Myers' favorite little person, Verne Troyer, is not involved in any substantial way with a woman best described as a "reality show contestant," "Victoria Beckham impersonator," and "least talented person in Britain, based on a survey of Domino's Pizza customers." The Daily Star (one of Britain's tabloid bastions of getting-it-wrong-ery and topless photos) published a report that Verne Troyer was down (like 4 flat tyres, sure) with Chanelle Hayes, a contestant on Celebrity Big Brother UK. What we know about Chanelle Hayes; she is a self-styled recording artist, perfume entrepreneur, and "model" who is regularly featured naked on the cover of British lad magazines, wrestling other women who also happen to be naked.
In a feat that makes even the legendary antics of Wilt Chamberlain look pedestrian, Russell Brand reportedly manages to sleep with up to three women a day. For those of you who don't have the calculator function on your computer readily available, that's up to 1095 women annually (1098 in a leap year), and up to 54,762 women over the next 50 years. In other words, Brand might, at his current rate, sleep with nearly 10% of all the single 25 to 64-year-old females in London.
LoveFeed gets personal with the story of a British woman who claimed her husband cheated on her in the virtual reality game Second Life.
