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Sex and Dating
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This Video Game Will Teach You How Not to Have Sex
By: Lilit Marcus | 1 Comment | Jul 28, 4:37pm ETThat’s right, kids – if you haven’t been able to grasp this whole “abstinence” concept, there’s now a video game that will help explain it to you. Think of it as the opposite of that weird massage video game from yesterday.
[Via The Awl]
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The Misanthropologist: What To Do When You See Your Parents Having Sex
By: Elizabeth Richard | 5 Comments | Jul 28, 2:43pm ETYou’ve got parents. If you’ve got parents, chances are they have fucked. If they’re still married, it’s possible they currently fuck each other. If they’re divorced, they probably fuck other people, and with a kind of gleeful urgency that had long ago deteriorated between them because you–like all children–are a … More
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The Heart Monitor: The 15 Worst Ways to Dump Or Be Dumped
By: Brandy Alexander | 3 Comments | Jul 28, 2:42pm ETGetting dumped sucks.
My first boyfriend, Greg, took my virginity and dumped me after two short months. He was the TA in my freshman writing seminar at a liberal arts college in New England. I was distraught. But it wasn’t the virginity situation that made the break up so reprehensible—it was … More -
Poll: Would You Date a Guy Shorter Than You?
By: Lilit Marcus | 9 Comments | Jul 28, 9:58am ETDuring a recent performance, teen star Justin Beiber asked his costar, Disney princess Selena Gomez, if she could take off her high heels so she wouldn’t be taller than him. Gomez reportedly refused, saying “I’m not going to take off my heels. You’re short. Embrace it.” Though the two stars … More
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5 Bad Reasons To Move In Together (And One Good One)
By: Jessica Pauline Ogilvie | 2 Comments | Jul 27, 8:18pm ETA lot of people — myself included — have agonized over whether or not to move in with a partner. There are even some compelling scientific studies about how it might affect your likelihood of getting and staying married. But in considering the possibility, there are some reasons that just … More
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A Revelation: Sex Can Be Good Even If You're Chubby!
By: Jessica Pauline Ogilvie | Comment | Jul 27, 7:44pm ETThis revelation comes to us courtesy of Valerie Bertinelli who, at 50, still claims to be a “slave to her weight.” No one better to dispense healthy, body-acceptance wisdom, if you ask me!
Bertinelli tells Prevention Magazine that while losing 50 pounds has made everything else about her life better, it … More -
Nothing is Sacred: Playboy's Jersey Shore Parody
By: Jessica Pauline Ogilvie | Comment | Jul 27, 7:25pm ETSome things should be left alone from the evil doings of soft-core porn purveyors, and the sacred ritual of “Gym. Tan. Laundry.” is one of those things.
But Hugh Hefner couldn’t keep his octogenarian hands off this idea, and so up on Playboy.com right now is — you guessed it! — … More -
Do You Have Literary Dealbreakers?
By: Jennifer Wright | 8 Comments | Jul 27, 3:20pm ETWho wants to be stuck with someone who likes that despicable hag, Jane Austen? No one! Well, at least not me and Mark Twain. What about Bret Easton Ellis? Intern Michael probably thinks that girls who like him drive stick shift.
Fortunately, now we can go to Alikewise: Dating by the … More -
A Reponse to a Response: How Not to Find a Lasting or Meaningful Relationship
By: Lindsay Cross | 3 Comments | Jul 27, 1:46pm ETThis is a response to last week’s post “How Not to Hit On Guys.”
Let me first say, I’m married. And before I was married, I dated some great guys, some slimy guys and some guys in between. And for years, I had a list of things that were … More -
The Author Of "Someday My Prince Will Come" Tells You How To Seduce A Prince
By: Jerramy Fine | Comment | Jul 27, 11:00am ETJerramy Fine isn’t a British aristocrat. She isn’t even British. She’s just a normal American girl with your run-of-the-mill hippie parents. However, after moving to England, she did get to welcome in the new year by dancing in an Indian royal palace. And she hooked up with a lord inside … More
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Jessica Simpson Cannot Cuddle Without Assistance
By: Jessica Pauline Ogilvie | 2 Comments | Jul 26, 7:40pm ETIt took me a minute to figure out what was going on in this picture. At first I thought it was really bad Photoshop — like, Photoshop that gave Jessica Simpson an extra leg. But then I realized that it’s one of her handlers (or “friends”) holding her up as … More
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Video: Facebook Used in 1 in 5 Divorce Proceedings
By: Jessica Pauline Ogilvie | Comment | Jul 26, 7:30pm ETOn the heels of Facebook’s 5,00,000th user, Kate Dailey of Newsweek wrote an article last week detailing the ways in which Facebook can ruin your life. This week, she extrapolates on the theme of how Facebook can, and probably will, be used against you in your divorce proceeding. Among her … More
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Men: Who Among You Wants A Beer Facial?
By: Jennifer Wright | Comment | Jul 26, 4:55pm ETI know that The Gloss has some male readers. I know because you always leave comments the begin “as a man, I think…” as though the fact that you commenter name is “Pete” would not give you away. That’s awesome, because you can weigh in on Cosmo’s latest sex tip: … More
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Would You Make Your Boyfriend Get Rid Of His Tarantula?
By: Jennifer Wright | Comment | Jul 26, 4:23pm ETMaybe I grew up in a weird family, but I was trained to think of pets as being something that you keep for life. You don’t give animals up when you move. You don’t give them up if they’re badly trained. You definitely don’t give them up when you have … More
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A Response: How Not to Hit On Guys
By: Michael Woodsmall | 29 Comments | Jul 22, 5:03pm ETIn the most recent Misanthropologist post, Elizabeth recounted the tale of a romantic endeavor gone terribly wrong. Yes, I do consider his feeble attempts to strut his stuff a “romantic endeavor.” I envisioned this all happening at Rick’s Café Américain. A broken man hoping for love with a beautiful woman … More
