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Online dating isn’t just for the young. In fact, it’s not even mostly for the young. Match.com, one of the leading online dating services, reports that 1 in 5 of its members is 50 or older—and that demographic is the site’s fastest growing segment.
With all the big claims made by online dating sites, we might imagine that more relationships and marriages than ever were originating online. A new study claims that 1 in 5 people in a new committed relationship (including marriages) met through online dating.
In the US, the odds a person has ever used his or her pet to attract a new mate are about 1 in 14.29.
For undergraduates and twenty-somethings, habitually strapped for time and money, the absence of dating as a prerequisite to sex sounds ideal. But when it comes to sleeping with a pal, the morning after is rarely as straightforward as the night before.
Viewers of ABC’s The Bachelor have come to expect certain things. A happy ending is not one of them.
William Cane has surveyed over 100,000 people in 23 countries about their kissing habits, written a book on kissing, and now gives lectures on the subject. Inside, the "kissing expert" details some different cultural interpretations of the gesture, and offers tips to men and women on their technique.
The first kiss on a first date is notoriously nerve-wracking. We instinctively sense that a lot is riding on our performance. And there’s good reason—for most people, a bad first kiss can end a relationship before it’s even begun.
The odds an American believes in love at first sight are 1 in 1.92 (51%). Meanwhile, 1 in 2.5 of us have experienced it ourselves.
This New Year's Eve will be illuminated by the second full moon of the month, the so-called Blue Moon, made famous by the song which is itself an ode to finding romance. This won’t happen again until 2028, and it has both astrologers and romantics hopeful that New Year’s Eve 2009 will be especially auspicious.
Is he cheating? Is she cheating? Tied to emotions of doubt, sadness, suspicion, and anger—at some point this question has crossed the mind of almost anyone who has ever been in love. Although it seems nearly universal to fear a partner will be unfaithful, how many people actually cheat?
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