Care for a date?
September 9th 2009 01:05
Good morning, would you like a date?
Okay, good, here it is: today is the ninth of the ninth of the ninth.
| 29 |
| Vote |
Good morning, would you like a date?
Okay, good, here it is: today is the ninth of the ninth of the ninth.
Comments (2)
Add Comments
Do single women prefer attached men?
August 13th 2009 00:51
The question has been around ever since Eve stole Adam from his first wife, but has recently been given an entertaining new airing by writer Justin Prugh. He uses Eve as an example too, citing her biting of the forbidden apple as evidence that all women get excited by what they can't have.
"In the Garden of Eden," writes Prugh, "Eve sinks her teeth into the one piece of fruit that God instructed her to avoid. So began a long line of women who wanted, oh so badly, what they could not have. We see the same trend continue today with women staring longingly at designer shoes, fawning over limited-edition jewelry and above all, chasing after already spoken-for men. Be it human or handbag, the more tantalizingly out of reach it is, the more appealing it becomes."
I said it was an entertaining new airing, not a necessarily a correct one.
Emma-Kate Dobbin, an editor at askmen.com, says, "In my opinion, this issue of women (and come to think of it – men too) wanting what they can’t have comes down to a lack of originality or confidence in following their own vision. Instead of finding someone else out there who is single, they need to go after someone who has already proved their romantic worth to others."
Dobbin's theory may be especially true of younger adults, receiving support in a new study by social psychologists Melissa Burkley and Jessica Parker. In the study, results of which were published in this month's issue of the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, a participating group of male and female university students was shown a series of profiles of other young people, and asked their reactions in terms of romantic attraction and possibility. Half the participants were told possible matches were single, while the other half were told the same person was currently in a committed relationship.
The men described as single averaged 59 per cent of positive responses from single women. The men described as being in a committed relationship averaged 90 per cent positive responses from single women.
Neither single nor attached men showed the same preference, and neither did attached women.
“This finding indicates that single women are considerably more interested in pursuing a man who is less available to them,” said Dr Burkley. “This may be because a man who is attached has already shown his ability to commit and, in a sense, has been pre-screened by another woman.”
Beware single women carrying apples.
| 68 |
| Vote |
[ Link ]
Love is in the news
February 12th 2009 22:14
And here is today's news about love.
According to those maestros of the eccentric at FlashNews, scientists believe that true love can be found by dating, and discarding, 12 people. Number 13 is the lucky one! Link. FlashNews was not specific what the scientists had been smoking.
According to the latest edition of Britain's venerable The Economist magazine, scientists think that "understanding the neurochemical pathways that regulate social attachments may help to deal with defects in people's ability to form relationships". Link. These guys really need to smoke something. We may have to wait for the tabloid version of this story to understand what is going on.
According to a recent article in another venerable magazine, Time, "As far as your genes are concerned, your principal job while you're alive is to conceive offspring, bring them to adulthood and then obligingly die so you don't consume resources better spent on the young." Link. Whoa! I'd just like to say, "while you're alive" is redundant and don't forget to cancel your subscription to Time before you conscientiously die.
The granddaddy of publishing venerability, London's The Times, reports that scientists have discovered that love can be forever. That's more like it! "Researchers at Stony Brook University in New York have shown that the traditionally sorry path of sexual love - a downward spiral from lust to indifference over the space of a decade - is not an iron rule. Scanning the brains of people who have been together for 20 years, the scientists found that about one in 10 couples still display elements of 'limerence', the psychologists’ term for the obsessive behaviour of new lovers." Link. Excuse me, I'm off to murmur sweet limerences in my wife's ear.
According to the sweetly named links2love.com, there are scientists working on the physiology of kissing, in particular what is behind the warm and fuzzy feelings that accompany a good kiss. Link. That sounds so romantic. "It's all about dopamine, neurotransmitters, pleasure receptors and the like," the scientists say. That sounds so scientific.
According to scientificblogging.com, scientists at four US and Canadian universities have been examining the sexual habits of women whose chins are above or below average in size, and have concluded that we should stay away from those with big chins as they have a tendency to cheat. Link. Is this serious? Apparently so. The results have been published in the journal Personality and Individual Differences, a publication which, we suggest, is still working towards venerable status.
| 66 |
| Vote |
[ Link ]
Museum splitting pairs
February 11th 2009 06:42
Some things are harder to spin than others. Take, for example, the Museum of Broken Relationships, a travelling exhibit that features the objects people leave behind after splitting up.
The museum, it was reported this week, is a collection started by a pair of Croatian exes who wanted to honour their dead relationship[ Click here to read more ]
The museum, it was reported this week, is a collection started by a pair of Croatian exes who wanted to honour their dead relationship
| 40 |
| Vote |
Read More[ Link ]
Have you tried internet dating?
February 10th 2009 22:04
A search at amazon.com using the words 'internet dating' yields 2,468 books. It also yields 16 DVDs, 32 MP3 downloads, 81 items under Apparel and Accessories and 45 under Kindle Store, whatever that is.
| 105 |
| Vote |
[ Link ]
Posted By: Chris Champion - Category: Dating
Imagine a world without imagination
February 10th 2009 20:33
Dating is in the news. It might have something to do with the imminence of an annual pagan ritual with origins from way back when the retail industry was just starting.
| 49 |
| Vote |
[ Link ]
Chris Champion's Blogs
Moderated by Chris Champion
