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  As we expect more from technology, do we expect less from each other? Sherry Turkle studies how our devices and online personas are redefining human connection and communication – and asks us to think deeply about the new kinds of connection we want to have. Sherry Turkle studies how technology is shaping our modern […]
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Bidding for love
The in-thing in New York City right now is auction dating, where men bid to date women. The world’s largest dating-auction website surveyed 5,000 New York males in order to determine New York’s definition of “The Perfect Woman” based on the following female qualities: Hair Colour, Eye Colour, Vice, and Education. Utilising the platform’s dating […]
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Sexy food
We found this great piece on aphrodisiacs from Susannah Chen, written for YumSugar, and this being a site all about love, decided to share it! A sexy dinner date should have one mission: to make the two of you swoon. We’ve offered the lowdown on healthy foods that’ll stimulate sex drives — but what foods […]
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Adopt a man
The French dating website AdopteUnMec.com (Adopt-A-Guy) is set up like a man boutique where women peruse the virtual racks looking for their perfect match. “Special on Carrot-Tops” advertises one online banner. Another alerts “buyers” to a “Total Liquidation of Men with Curly Hair: Everything Must Go.” Now, the company has taken their wares to the […]
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Smelly t-shirt dating
Sniff your way to love? Singles who have attended so-called pheromone parties haven’t ruled it out. The get-togethers – which have been held in New York and Los Angeles and are planned for other cities – ask guests to submit a slept-in T-shirt that will be smelled by other participants. Then, voila! You can pick […]
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Older men keeping younger women
There has been a certain amount of controversy recently about a website that is to be launched in the UK. Its formula has proved successful across the pond and creators of the site have decided to give it a try in Blighty to see how it might fair. It is called Seeking Arrangements and, as […]
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Teens dating younger guys
On December 15th 2011, TBW founder, Julia Macmillan wrote an article for Yahoo News and PRWeb about the trend in the age of women wanting to date younger men going down. This was in response to the, for want of a better word, flack, that beset Caroline Flack when she dated Harry Styles, the latest […]
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Older women dating younger men
Age gap relationships have been around since time began, the more common being an older man and younger woman, and these are generally pretty well received, unless the difference is insanely vast, or it’s obvious the older man only has the company of his younger woman because of his bank balance. The reverse – older […]
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Older rehaired female
I have a little secret… It’s not a very interesting secret but it’s a secret never the less. Born out of the necessity of not wanting to deal with the ramifications of people knowing about it because of the society with live in. I find older women attractive – and enjoy cougar dating (see, not really […]
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Texas teacher and her student
Not so long ago, if a female teacher had been found having a relationship with a pupil in her school she would have been fired immediately. Now perhaps attitudes are changing if people see how both parties can benefit and give each other happiness and support. A recent example of this was reported in Fort […]
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