Our good friends Em & Lo informed us yesterday that a wedding band is the #1 male power accessory needed to lure in the ladies. The Frisky: 5 Horrifying Things You'll Learn When Moving In With A Guy

Indeed, a recent study at Oklahoma State University confirms what legions of men have sworn since the beginning of time—women are twice as likely to want a relationship with a man who's already taken. The Frisky: 40 Things Every Woman Should Do Before She Turns 40

While we can't speak for all women on those allegations, we've crafted a single … Read More

Love Bytes:  Six must-click  sex, love and relationship links.

4th of July Date Ideas. [Cosmopolitian]

Date Night...At Ikea? [Mom Logic]

Parents admit they go to IKEA to ditch their kids at IKEA's in-house daycare ervice in order to have an actual two-way, unmolested convo with their Significant Other.

Vibrators...More Popular Than Marriage. [Betty Confidential]

Should Married Men Have Single Female Friends? [Yahoo! Shine]

Juggling Love And Career. [FNC iMag]

Indian Court Decriminalizes Consensual Gay Sex.[AP]

We've always mused (half) jokingly about one day becoming crazy old cat women. We (half) jokingly fantasize about settling into middle-aged, single life with an army of whiskers that don't judge or dump us. Single Women Are Better Texters

It's comforting.

And then we stumbled upon a clip from Cat Lady, a horrific documentary about (cough, cough, our future, cough) lonely women with cats who swarm their homes like locusts. Seriously. Kitties jumping out of drawers, peaking out of crevices, filling up entire counters in the kitchen—it reminded us of when we had a … Read More

You may not realize this—but you and Carrie Bradshaw owe Helen Gurley Brown big time! If it wasn't for Helen, the fearless founder and longtime editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan magazine, and author of the earth-shattering bestseller, Sex and the Single Girl, you might well be TRAPPED!

TRAPPED in a world filled with now absurd-seeming ideas. Ideas like: you're a slut if you've had pre-marital sex, or if you've had sex with more than one partner, or if you're not married... by the age of 21.

So thank God for Helen, her once-revolutionary ideas and her bold determination to relentlessly articulate … Read More

In January, I left a live-in relationship after three years. The experience was all the sad adjectives you can imagine. But after the sobbing spells and the heavy drinking, the fog lifted—I was finally single again for the first time since after I graduated college.

Naturally, I expected my single friends to react with equal doses of giddy glee. For the record, I'm not the kind of girl who ditches my ladies when I'm dating someone. But lots of time does free up when you become single. Read: Why Am I Still Single?

As for my coupled-up chums, I … Read More

In his recent paper, Mate Choice and Sexual Selection: What Have We Learned Since Darwin, evolutionary scientist and professor Adam Jones from Texas A&M University marvels that Darwin got it right with his 150-year-old theory that mate selection is anything but random chance. Instead, it is based on a practice that is very deliberate and multi-faceted. Darwin's theory has withstood decades of analysis. Read: Attraction Pheromones May Not Exist

"Darwin noticed that birds, especially, seemed to be a bit picky about who they mated with," Jones said in a press release on June 15. "He discovered that … Read More

The answer as to who, in the romance equation, is pickier when it comes to selecting a mate may come down to a question of who's doing the approaching and who's being approached, regardless of gender, finds a new study from researchers at Northwestern University.

The long-held belief is that women are more selective than men when it comes to mate selection. Why?  Because females  are programmed to consider the reproductive cost of choosing a partner, in other words, what bearing and raising children with the potential partner would be like.

A new study challenges this view. Typically at … Read More

Every time she hung out with her single female friends, the same gripes surfaced. Enough already with the how-to-snag-a-guy advice streaming from anyone and everyone as soon as status single was announced, they said.

Suddenly, Karin Anderson, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychology at Concordia University Chicago, found herself keeping track of what these single women were saying, replacing the strict academic research techniques she was used to with more informal polling.

What she found was a deluge of well-meaning advice being issued to singles that, while offered with the best of intentions, not only wasn't working but was making singles' skin … Read More

Are you receiving boring, non-inspired text messages from your crush? Blame it on his gender.

According to a new study, single ladies are better texters. Researchers at the Indiana University analyzed flirty text messages sent between singletons at a screening of the Italian version of TRL and found that the women's messages were more creative.

What, you may ask, makes a good text message? Getting close to the character limit, using abbreviations (abbrevs, for those in the know) and emoticons. Interesting—we always thought emoticons were for making sarcasm obvious—Hey Pete, that's a cute girl ur talkin 2 ;).

But once … Read More

Escape #1: Cowboys Are My Weakness Who: Cowgirls at heart What: Mountain Sky Guest Ranch’s Wild West Women Adventure Where: Paradise Valley, Montana Why: Grab your Wranglers and ten gallon hat—and get ready for your own version of The Simple Life (hot cowboys included!). At the ranch, spend your days riding and hiking on 6,000+ acres of mountain land and bonding with other women. Together, you’ll learn how to brand cattle and tack and groom your horse. Later, test your skills on an all-day ride with lunch on the trail, which includes a tour of … Read More