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8 tips for getting tipsy without hurting your dating game on St. Patrick's Day.
On this St. Patrick's day, we want ye to find a mate.
See that cute, single lad or lass across the bar?
Ay! A pot of gold!
Well, put down the car-bomb and make your way over there. Even if you've had a bit too much, relax and let the ultimate social lubricant work its dating magic.
It is no secret that alcohol and dating share a volatile but intimate relationship. In fact, for the most part the two go hand-in-hand. The key is to reach a level of intoxication that has you feeling loose and confident, not nauseated and belligerent. (Read: don't … 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
For years, he was the neighborhood hottie, and I was just his little brother's gal pal. Then...
Over Christmas this year, I made a middle school dream come true. No, I didn't finally find that new 15-speed bicycle or belatedly get accepted into all-state band. It was so much better and something to enjoy at any age: I hooked up with my friend's older brother.
Context is crucial here so let me explain. There is a good chance you had a similar guy in your life. For the story's sake, let's call mine Jake Ryan. He's the older, within-your-extended-social-circle-but-for-all-purposes-out-of-your-league individual who helped define your concept of cool and attractiveness. My Jake Ryan is two years older, he lived … Read More
Skirting anti-prostitution laws with a little paid kissing on the Korean Peninsula.
According to the YonHap News (I know you're familiar with that outlet), Korean law enforcement bros have been busting up brothels left, right, center and behind since a statute was passed in 2004 banning sex for money as an occupation. Read: Korean Court Rules Against Going Dutch
Industries are a little like sharks. They have to keep moving and eating seals and surfers else they'll sink and starve, respectively. And no industry is more adept at evolving than prostitution (with the possible exception of the X-Men). It's fought legislation, moral posturing and various maladies of the … Read More
Kissing is great for romantic bonding and just as awesome for your health.
We know kissing as a social pleasantry, the appropriate ending to a date and a means of connecting with our main squeeze. The collision of lips and tongues that we often take for granted has a whole lot more bubbling under the surface than what meets the eye. Swine flu scares and mono aside, kissing actually does a body very, very good. Kissing Capital Of The World
1.) Kissing boosts immunity. A recent study reported in the journal Medical Hypotheses says kissing may increase a woman's immunity from Cytomegalovirus. Cytomegalovirus, contracted through mouth to mouth contact, can … Read More
The question may seem straight out of 1950, but that doesn't mean it's not worth pondering.
Four things we know we're not supposed to do on the first date: talk only about ourselves, send text messages, explain how great the sex was with our exes, get fall-down sloppy drunk.
Two things we're told not to do, but sometimes do anyway: split the bill, have sex. The Smoking-Hot Reason To Avoid First-Date Sex
One question that probably never crosses our minds, but might be worth pondering: to kiss or not to kiss?
We know what you're thinking: Did I read that right? Did they really just tell us to consider holding off on kissing? As in, "Welcome to … Read More
Kissing is fun. But why do people act like it's such a big deal when two girls are doing it?
Don't get us wrong. We like kissing. We like it a lot. And we want everyone who enjoys kissing to be able to kiss whomever they want (as long as it's all consensual, of course).
But here's where we've had it: girl-on-girl kissing. Not the kissing itself. But the ridiculous hullabaloo that erupts around it. What's the big deal? Why do people care? And why do straight female celebrities (yes, you, Megan Fox and Katy Perry) keep making such a big deal out of the fact that they've done it? How To Kiss Well
Below, we've listed the top five reasons we're … Read More
Easy ways to let him know what you want.
You couldn’t have asked for a better date. He chose a good outfit. He opened the door for you. He was funny and charming. He picked up the check. He walked you to your car or subway stop. You’re pretty sure he wants to kiss you, but he looks pretty nervous. Here are four ways you can help him muster up the nerve to take the plunge:
Keep the conversation going. It takes a minute or two for a guy to psych himself up for the moment of truth. The worst thing you can do is give the impression … Read More
This is a PSA on PDA.
Have you ever been in public and a couple will just not stop making out? If they're lesbians at a Seattle Mariners game, you can have them removed. But anyone else (and if they're just making out, maybe with a little over the clothes groping) and you may just have to sit and take it.
Before we really explore Public Displays of Affection (and how they make some people's skin crawl), please please please check out this story from Em & Lo.
Yeah, crazy right? (It's like that scene in Mall Rats where Jason … Read More
Kissing: we love to do it, but why? An investigation into the science of the smooch.
Pecking, smooching, Frenching, and playing tonsil-hockey—there are as many names for kissing as there are ways to do it. Whether we use it as an informal greeting or an intensely romantic gesture, kissing is one of those ingrained human behaviors that seems to defy explanation. Its many purposes—a blow and peck for good luck on dice, lips to ground after a rocky boat ride, kisses in the air to an acquaintance, and the long slow smooches of Hollywood—have different meanings yet are similar in nature. So why is it that we love to pucker up?
A Kiss Isn’t Just … Read More
