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Money is sexy

August 30th 2010 08:28

Money compensates for bad hair too

There is an old joke that defines "charisma" as something that short, fat, balding rich men have. An Israeli academic has just proven it correct.

Dan Ariely, who is a Professor of Behavioral Economics at Duke University in the US, determined that short men looking for women through online dating sites are disadvantaged and the only thing that can compensate, in the eyes of women, for their shortness of stature is money.

Specifically, men need to earn about US$35,000 more a year for every inch they are under 5ft10in.

Prof Ariely reached the conclusion after polling 28,000 online daters.

His research also revealed that women think men are most desirable aged 27, men think women are most desirable at 21, women go more for looks while men go more for age and weight, and both lie a lot in creating their online profiles.

For women, the attractiveness of men rises the more education they have, but men don't return the compliment, generally giving a woman no extra credit for a degree beyond a bachelor's. Intimidated?

Professor Ariely's rather sad findings are published in his book "The Upside of Irrationality".

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Posted By: Chris Champion - Category: Dating, Human nature, Psychology, Romance

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Bride misses her own wedding

April 3rd 2010 02:47

A drink with a friend before your wedding is a tradition Siobahn Watson was determined to follow. Now she wishes she hadn't.

Watson, 24, of Manchester, England, a telesales assistant, was engaged to Aaron Todd, also 24, a bricklayer. A white Rolls-Royce had been hired, the bridal party's gowns had been designed, fitted and paid for, guests had been invited and a lot of money had been spent on the function at which everyone would celebrate the happy day.

Unfortunately, Watson's final drink as a single woman turned into something of a final fling as a single woman. Not all the details have been released, but we can read between the sheets.

Some hours before her wedding, Watson went out for that fateful drink with the unnamed "friend". They drank. They drank some more. At some point Watson lost her mobile phone. At some other point, the two stopped drinking and went to a motel.

We know only two things for certain that went on in that motel room. One is that Siobahn Watson went to sleep. We know that because we have been told the other thing that happened: she woke up.

She woke at about the same time that she was supposed to be saying, "I do."

Later, Watson was quoted as saying, "When I realised I had missed my own wedding, I started shaking. I could not believe I had been so stupid."

Aaron Todd, who had spent longer than expected standing, alone, by the altar, while friends and family tried continuously to ring Siobahn on her lost mobile phone, was quoted as saying, "She won't get a second chance.''

dailystar.co.uk; image: firstpersonsingular.org

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Posted By: Chris Champion - Category: Dating, Europe, UK, Human nature, Odd Spot, Romance, Sex

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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.

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