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How To Dress To Attract Men (At a Bar)
Published on November 20, 2009
Recently in the Telegraph there was an article that discussed how women should dress at the bar to meet the most men. They’re findings suggest that a woman should reveal 40% of her skin to meet the most men. Revealing too little leads to far less contact from men (up to 40% less). However, revealing […]
Keep reading11/03 Dating News: Social Dating, When to Meet, and the 6th Sense
Published on November 3, 2009
What Can You Tell From a Dating Profile Photo? Single Parent Gossip has an interesting article that discusses how we can detect personality traits just by viewing a picture of someone. The implication here is that if you’ve ever looked at a person’s online dating photos and suspected you would (or wouldn’t!) get along with […]
Keep readingDo Cheesy Pick-up Lines Really Work?
Published on October 9, 2009
According to this Yahoo! article, some pick-up lines do work. Of course, the article is from Yahoo! India so maybe something is lost across cultures because I would have never thought this was the case. The only time I’ve seen this approach taken was by men who didn’t seem serious about having success with the […]
Keep readingService for Dating Younger Men (or Older Women)
Published on September 13, 2009
This week I was contacted by folks over at Cougared.com who were looking to get some attention to statistics they have collected. They had recently finished surveying older women who prefer to date younger men (referred to as “cougars”) and some of the information they found is interesting: The most common age group for cougar […]
Keep readingA Great Idea for Online Dating
Published on October 31, 2007
In my guide, I stress the importance of meeting anyone you are talking to online sooner rather than later. I make this recommendation based on the fact that I found my impressions that were created from talking to someone through email or on the phone were often very (very) wrong. In these cases, within the […]
Keep readingThe Risk of Trusting Quickly
Published on October 29, 2007
While online dating is bringing more and more people dating success everyday, there is another reminder in the news that caution should be exercised. In this story, an Australian man flew to Mali to meet his “bride” only to be taken hostage. While this is horrible, it seems the man from the article isn’t the […]
Keep readingThe Best and Worst Cities for Dating
Published on October 12, 2007
Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital. ~Aaron Levenstein From time to time, articles are published on the best and worst cities to live in if you are single or, maybe more specifically, dating. This year, of the top forty cities measured, my city, Pittsburgh, came in […]
Keep readingOld Problems in New Packaging
Published on September 28, 2007
Every now and again I hear a news story talking about the dangers of internet dating such as this one. Now, without question, there are risks with online dating but, as even the briefest scan of newspapers from the past century would prove, date crimes have existed for a very long time. One might even […]
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