In 8th grade, my French teacher orchestrated an entire class with her skirt unzipped. To see this stern, polished woman's pantyhose and blouse exposed through her zipper while my adolescent classmates snickered behind her back made me supremely nervous. Did she know it was undone? Did she know my peers were giggling at her? Had she noticed but left it alone to challenge our maturity? Was she thinking "I'm not going to be the one to be made to feel uncomfortable by this. If you kids have a problem with a clothing mishap, too bad"? I was torn. Wont to … Read More

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

Bad breakups aren't fun for anyone, but good breakups are hard to come by. Avoid all the pitfalls of breaking up the wrong way on this episode of Love U. Is it ok to break up by text message? What counts as a bad breakup?

Communication response times have come far from the days of smoke signals. We can send and receive messages in the blink of an eye via text, phone, e-mail, Facebook, MySpace, instant message, the list goes on. This is a good thing. Except when it's not.

For example, on the occasions when you really need to return a bad blind date's or your mother-in-law's phone call. It would be rude not to, but it's late, your throat is bone dry from talking all day and there's a Scrubs rerun on TV. A text might come off as too curt, an … Read More