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Long-Distance Love Light Shines in New Gizmo

(Newser) - Tired of texting your long-distance lover to say how much you care? A Scottish research lab hopes to connect couples with something a bit more poetic: "painted" light. Users of Mutsugoto wear touch-activated rings tracked by motion-sensing cameras mounted above their beds; caress your own arm and a matching...

'Cougar' Trend a Myth
 'Cougar' Trend a Myth 
COMMENTARY
Mar 25, 2009 11:00 AM CDT

'Cougar' Trend a Myth

Turns out most men still want younger women

(Newser) - The idea that a legion of young Ashtons are out there prowling for older women is—sorry, ladies—a myth, writes Meredith Goldstein in the Boston Globe. The dating industry is awash with tales of “cougar” events canceled due to low interest among younger men, and industry experts confirm...

Brit Not in Bed With Agent: Source

(Newser) - Oops! She didn't do it again, Us reports: Britney Spears isn't dating her agent after all. Brit and agent Jason Trawick "are absolutely, 100 percent not dating," a source tells the mag. "He has been her agent for four years, and they are very close friends....

Kennedy Says He, Love Hewitt Are an Item

(Newser) - Jamie Kennedy and Jennifer Love Hewitt are dating, despite previous denials, Us reports. “She’s my Bella,” Kennedy said in an odd Twilight reference. “I don’t want to bite her neck, but I want her to live.” The two were rumored together since Hewitt called...

Brit's Got a New Boyfriend
 Brit's Got a New Boyfriend 
GOSSIP ROUNDUP
Mar 12, 2009 10:37 AM CDT

Brit's Got a New Boyfriend

Plus, Twilight hunk loves Tina Fey, more

(Newser) - Sorry, boys: Britney’s taken. The comeback queen is dating her talent agent, E! reports, a do-gooder credited with helping Brit, 27, get back on the straight and narrow. Jason Trawick, 37, “is one of the few people who Jamie Spears trusts,” says a source. Tween girls will...

Beef With The Bachelor: Men Should Do the Chasing
Beef With The Bachelor:
Men Should Do the Chasing
OPINION
Mar 10, 2009 12:12 PM CDT

Beef With The Bachelor: Men Should Do the Chasing

Men only appreciate what they fight for, author writes

(Newser) - You might view ABC’s The Bachelor as harmless fun. Think again. “It’s wrong. It’s just plain wrong,” Lisa Earle McLeod writes in the Huffington Post. “It violates the social order of the universe.” No, not because reality TV is evil or sexist. It’...

'Sexy' Classics We Say We've Read

We think fibbing about reading classics makes us appear intelligent, 'sexier'

(Newser) - The Bible, War and Peace, 1984, and Ulysses are some of the classics people say they've read but actually haven't, a new British study has found. Why? Two-thirds of those surveyed fibbed about their reading mainly to appear intelligent and "more sexually attractive," a researcher tells the Daily ...

Lookin' for Love, 1 in 4 Turn to Arms of Networking Sites

Online dating no longer has social stigma

(Newser) - For those looking for love in all the wrong places, the right place might just be Facebook, reports the Telegraph, citing a new poll that shows one in four Britons are dating or have dated a person met through a social-networking site such as MySpace or Bebo. And in further...

Texting on Dates? Just Hang Up

(Newser) - Texting may be a ubiquitous form of communication, but you might want to put away that handset when you’re sitting across from a first date, writes Martha Irvine for the AP. "Oh, the fun of pretending to be interested in what someone else is typing to someone you...

Love Bites: Songs for the Dumped

Top songs to nurse rage this Valentine's Day

(Newser) - Roses and chocolates be damned. The pink-and-red holiday can be especially harsh on the recently dumped. MTV suggests tunes to nurse your inner rage:
  1. Ain't It Funny: Who knows breakups better than J-Lo?
  2. Shut Up and Let Me Go: Enough said in this tune by the Ting Tings.
  3. Before
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Randy Rourke Loves Courtney on DL, but Eyes, Hands Wander

She seethes as he flirts with girls at Elle party

(Newser) - Mickey Rourke has been secretly romancing Courtney Love since the Golden Globes, though it didn't keep him from flirting with Daily Mirror bloggers, they reveal, at the Elle Style Awards afterparty. Love angrily texted Rourke from across the table as the randy Wrestler star slipped his arms around the pair....

New Zagat Guide Gives Dating Advice

(Newser) - Zagat has issued a new guide—not to dining, but to dating and dumping in the big city, the New York Times reports. The survey of residents in New York, Los Angeles, and other cities says:
  • Blind dates: Just 2% considered them a good way to meet partners. Mutual friends
...

In Brazil, a Fine Line Between Sex, Romance

Are local women who 'date' tourists really prostitutes?

(Newser) - Brazil’s reputation for sex tourism isn’t as straightforward as it seems, Seth Kugel writes for GlobalPost. Sure, lots of men visit Rio de Janeiro, in particular, “with one thing on their minds.” But “there are many gradations on the romance-to-prostitution continuum.” It’s common...

Men Are the New Old Maids
 Men Are the 
 New Old Maids 
OPINION
Jan 30, 2009 2:50 PM CST

Men Are the New Old Maids

Women take practical, less romantic view, author writes

(Newser) - Forget single women—men are the real hopeless romantics, writes Liz Hoggard in the UK's Evening Standard. "Trust me, men are the new spinsters," she says. "They dream of being married to The One," but that "one" must be a mother, a wife, and a...

Hormones Push Pretty Women to Cheat: Study

High estradiol levels make women consider selves more attractive, tougher to satisfy

(Newser) - Attractive women are wired to have more flings and cheat on long-term partners, a new study suggests. Women considered beautiful—by themselves and others—have more of the hormone estradiol, a form of estrogen that fuels lust and racy behavior. Saliva samples and sexual histories were collected from 52 participants,...

Should She Delay the L-Word?
 Should She Delay the L-Word? 
opinion
Jan 7, 2009 9:47 AM CST

Should She Delay the L-Word?

Women should say 'I love you' first as much as men

(Newser) - It may seem dated to say women can kill relationships with a poorly timed or premature "I love you." Or it may just seem dated to women, observes Sarah Hepola, who read an article advising women never to be the first to show their cards, emotionally, and was...

Brit Snags Bollywood Boyfriend
 Brit Snags Bollywood Boyfriend 
Dec 30, 2008 10:00 AM CST

Brit Snags Bollywood Boyfriend

(Newser) - Britney Spears apparently has enough freedom from her dad to take a quickie trip to India—with her new love, the Mirror reports. The comeback kid, known for dating bad boys, has been seeing the choreographer of her "Womanizer" video, Bollywood dance instructor Sandip Soparrkar. The pair, who just...

Ladies, Beware This New Type of Cad

He's not your average womanizer—he's much worse

(Newser) - Traditional womanizers are easy to detect, but single girls have a new species of cad to watch out for—the Homme Fatale, writes Irina Aleksander in the Observer. They are smart, gentle, short of Hollywood good looks but confident in a self-deprecating way, "deceptively vulnerable," and conniving. Such...

'I Haven't Had Sex in 15 Years'
 'I Haven't Had Sex in 15 Years' 
Dec 10, 2008 7:41 PM CST

'I Haven't Had Sex in 15 Years'

Found living without sex can be easier than looking for love—just not preferable

(Newser) - Writer Kit Naylor didn't intend for things to work out this way. She likes men. She likes love. And yet somehow, "here I am—55 years old, a spinster long past my sell-by date, no kids—and I haven't had sex in a decade and a half.” She...

Hathaway's New Man a Bad Seed, Too

Shulman an 'opportunist,' actress 'addicted to losers:' source

(Newser) - Anne Hathaway has a “sexy” new man, and he’s no high-flying fraudster like her now-in-prison ex, but they may share a quality. Still-struggling actor Adam Shulman is an “opportunist,” a source tells the New York Post. “When he was at Brown [University], he went after...

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