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When Online Dating Doesn’t Work, Use Your DNA

Posted on March 28th, 2008 | 10 comments

Dear David,
online dating isn’t working for me. I’ve tried different dating sites for over a year now, with no luck. Granted, I go on plenty of coffee dates, but I haven’t even come close to finding Mr. Right. Is it me, or am I correct in thinking internet dating doesn’t work? I need your advice! [...]

Boys are the New Girls, Women are the New Men

Posted on March 13th, 2008 | 7 comments

The mother of one of my son’s friends called the other day to pass on some troubling gossip she’d heard. It seems another boy who used to be good friends with her son told her son that my son said some not-very-nice things about her son behind her son’s back, and her son was understandably [...]

Hooking Up – I Just Want To Be Your Lover

Posted on February 29th, 2008 | 8 comments

Unhooked: How Young Women Pursue Sex, Delay Love and Lose at Both, by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Laura Sessions Stepp gives a detailed look at the hookup culture that is permeating social scenes in American colleges and even some high schools.
Hooking up involves two people getting together for sex without commitment or attachment. Ms. Stepp suggests [...]