You're never too old to tie the knot. Need proof? A 107-year-old never-married Chinese woman is looking for a husband. "I'm already 107 and I still haven't got married," she told a local newspaper. "What will happen if I don't hurry up and find a husband?"Wang Guiying isn't single for lack of suitors—she avoided married because she saw how difficult it was for other women in her family. "I often found my uncle's wife crying in the woodshed after an attack. All the married people around there lived like that. Getting married was too frightening," she said. Staying single … Read More

How does someone end up not having sex for 15 years? By accident, swears writer Kit Naylor on Salon.com.

We've all had dry spells, but man, 15 years is one hell of a dry spell!

Naylor is a middleaged woman, a self-described recluse with two cats and no kids. She calls herself "a spinster long past my sell-by date." Spinster! We think that's a sexist way to refer to herself, but nevertheless, we admire how she got that way: she wants to be in love to make love. It seems that by eschewing casual sex and being committed to personal … Read More

Today Love Buzz checks in on the thirty-six-year-old virgin who's been blogging on BlogHer. When we last reported, Always Beginning the World (perfect name, by the way) had learned that she is able to have sex, despite having been told by a doctor that she never would. She had met a man she liked, and had decided that she would stop cutting herself off from the world and try to become a sexual, sensual being.

The next series of posts describe what Always Beginning The World is doing to prepare herself for a sexually active life. She's trying to open … Read More

Fancy a shag with Dave Eggers, Diablo Cody or David Sedaris? Better check the Guardian's list of Top Ten Literary Virgins first!

Yes, some of the great writers of Western civilization lived most or all of their lives sans carnal knowledge -- including romantic scribe Jane Austen. The Guardian writes:

Despite the "quite a bit of sex" smeared on [Jane Austen's] life and work by the biopic Becoming Jane and virtually all the recent screen adaptations (notably the obnoxious Mansfield Park), the author of Pride and Prejudice (invariably voted best ever English novel) died intacta. All six of her major … Read More

Tales of a 36-Year-Old Virgin is a series of incredibly moving posts on BlogHer by a woman calling herself Always Beginning the World (click that link to see all five installments).

ABW describes how, during her first OBGYN exam, the doctor told her that her vagina was "unusually small." So little, in fact, that she couldn't have sex, use tampons or even receive a pap smear. ABW went through life "isolated on my own little island, in an icy ocean called celibacy."

More than twenty years later ABW found out that the doctors she consulted as … Read More

We had a best of the Dish 2007 about the decline of marriage in Britain and things aren't getting any better. Statistical evidence shows that fewer people (percentage-wise) are getting married than ever before. Sure, fewer divorces are taking place but A) there’s a smaller pool and B) the people that are getting married now are doing so less half-heartedly. But Americans are starting to follow those across-the-pond folk on this trend. But what gives?

One of our favorite actresses, Maria Bello, isn’t really into it. And Read More

I was on the phone with my friend Beth, a 31-year-old international sales exec at a major Hollywood film studio.

"I can't believe a four-year relationship could end with us living on two separate coasts," she said, "But he was traveling so much and I finally just told him, 'This is not what I signed up for when I got involved with you.' So, we're officially separated."

She sighed. I sighed.

"Anyway enough about me, what about you, Italian girl? I thought they worshiped American women in the land of pasta … Read More

From Reuters
By Paul Majendie

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Women over 60 feel much healthier and happier living alone and revel in their lifestyle as so-called senior singletons, a study showed on Thursday.

A classic example was 79-year-old former Bond girl and "Avengers" TV star Honor Blackman who said: "What I've learnt from my two marriages and divorces is that I'm not much good at living with other people."

The study, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, looked at the growing social and health implications of people living alone -- Britain now has more people aged over 60 … Read More

I admit it, I love Bridget Jones. (In fact, I actually watched her in both the original and the sequel last weekend. For about the eleventh time.) Still, it irks me that celluloid spinsters are portrayed as losers (however hilarious) when I think that in real life, single women may be the lucky ones. In fact, I’m thankful I didn’t hook some nice pre-med guy in college, buy a four-bedroom house in the ’burbs, and start churning out kids (my mom’s fantasy).

What I got to do instead: live abroad (twice), become a writer, interview tons of celebrities—Jon Stewart’s even … Read More