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by Glamour

Glamour's exclusive man survey turned 18 this year-and in honor of its big birthday, we asked 1,131 men (and a few celebrities) some seriously uncensored questions. If you don't want to know what he's thinking on a date with you, in bed with you, or in the next cubicle, then you probably shouldn't read this...

1) Have you ever had sex on your lunch break from work?

Yes: 42%

No: 58%

2) Have watched porn at the office?

Yes: 17%

No: 83%

3) Have you ever fantasized about a female colleague?

Yes: 79%

No: 21%

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4) How about a female boss?

Yes: 43%

No: 57%

5) Do you have a name for your penis?

Yes: 13%

No: 87%

*Some of the best we heard? "Penisaurus Rex," "Sean Bonery," and "Mr. Happy" (multiple times!).

6) Would it be weird if a woman named her vagina?

Yes: 41%

No: 59%

7) Do you think you'd have more sex if you were taller?

Yes: 24%

No: 76%

*But a

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by Kayla Tanenbaum, Glamour

Jane Austen's timeless classic Pride and Prejudice turned 200 yesterday! We've all read the novel, swooned over Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy in the BBC version (hello, clingy white shirt!), rooted for Keira Knightley as Elizabeth Bennet in Joe Wright's 2005 adaptation, and laughed with Bridget Jones. We turn to Pride and Prejudice when our mothers drive us crazy, when our best friends have another dating disaster, and when some rude person insults us at a bar.

Needless to say, Austen is still everywhere and for good reason: She is the master of relationships and wit. "She pokes fun at the way society and the marriage market work," says Erin Blakemore, author of The Heroine's Bookshelf: Life Lessons, From Jane Austen to Laura Ingalls Wilder. "And I think we can use a lot of that levity today because it's really easy to take all that stuff super seriously."

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So, in honor Pride and Prejudice's bicentennial,

CN Digital Studioby Gena Kaufman, Glamour

I think this line from The Atlantic pretty much sums it up: "Over a lifetime, unmarried women can pay as much as a million dollars more than their married counterparts for healthcare, taxes, and more." (emphasis mine) But don't worry, I'll cover some of their specifics too.

Authors Lisa Arnold and Christina Campbell, two self-proclaimed "straight women with no desire to get married", realized that even though they don't care that much about marriage, the government and corporations do. So, they decided to bust out their math skills and calculate the lifetime cost of being single in America, comparing four hypothetical Virginia women: two single women and two married women, one of each at the salaries of $40,000 and $80,000. (The married women's husbands were given salaries of $51,000 and $103,000, accounting for the $1.00 a man makes to a woman's 78 cents.) (Barf.)

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by Gena Kaufman, Glamour

In a post-Sex and the City world, all women know every intimate detail of their friends' sex lives, and in fact, discuss matters like penis size and "funky spunk" loudly over brunch in the presence of their babies and their waitresses. (Side note: Men now fear women's public laughter.) What's that? No, that's probably not entirely accurate? True. But in my personal experience, girlfriends do tend to discuss their sex lives at least a little!

According to adult product company AdamandEve.com, and its "Great American Sex Survey," women are more likely to gab. Of participants who were asked "Do you share intimate details of your sex life with friends?" 30% of the female respondents said that they did, while only 18% of men copped to it.

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First of all….only 30% of women? Really, you guys? Like, no details at all?!? I mean, I'm not going to take a snapshot of his orgasm face to pass around at the next book club

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by Melissa Melms, Glamour

Thinking of taking your first vacation away with your boyfriend (or girlfriend!)? While you're probably excited and thinking of all that hot vacation sex you're going to have, take a minute to prepare yourself for the fact that it could be a huge test in your relationship. I'm serious!

Yes, I'm still in vacation mode. I went to Aruba with my parents, sister, cousin and J over New Year's and had a blast ringing in 2013 with the people I love. All I can think about this week back at work is being back there on the beach and how much fun I had with J and my family, which normally could have been a stressful situation (family + close quarters = drama).



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It's also got me thinking back to a not so great vacation I went on back in college with my ex. We spent a week at Disney World and I can still remember this huge fight we had during one of those Main Street parades at Magic Kingdom. I should have realized

by Gena Kaufman, Glamour

Aside from the ubiquity of "Brown Eyed Girl" on random playlists everywhere, I feel like you blue-eyed folks always get all the attention while us brownies are blandly forgotten. But science is finally giving us some love. Well, at least it's giving brown-eyed men their day in the sun.

After asking 240 people to rate photographs of 40 men and 40 women with either brown or blue eyes for trustworthiness, researchers found that brown eyes were seen as more trustworthy than blue, especially in men. This seemed kind of duh-worthy to me-blue eyes might be more attention-grabbing, but they're often described as "piercing" whereas brown are described as "warm." However, it got more interesting with the catch in the researchers next study...

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This time around, the researchers used the same faces but digitally swapped the eye color of each person. The raters gave the same faces the same level of trustworthiness, despite the new eye

by Gena Kaufman, Glamour

Very, very important Battle of the Sexes: Who's the bigger grumpster dumpster in the morning?

And surprise: it's us, ladies. We're totally morning beasts! According to a survey of 2,000 people in London, women are totally grumpier than men, with some accused by their colleagues of "being a strop" in the a.m. hours. "Strop" is British slang for "Get this beyotch some coffee," I think.

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Anecdotally, I'd have to agree. I'm never less happy than when my alarm goes off in the morning, and I've basically worn a hole in my snooze button. Beware, the future boyfriend who has the pleasure of waking up next to me on a Monday morning, especially if I ever again find myself in a job where I have to do more than roll out of bed to start working. My last boyfriend and I were pretty much on the same oversleeping page, so I think we just subconsciously agreed to be miserable together, silently, most mornings. But I imagine mornings could get

by Gena Kaufman, Glamour

I don't know about you guys, but I hardly ever meet guys in regular life situations. You may have noticed that most of the dating escapades I tell you about are of the online persuasion. Which is fine, and I'll continue to try that angle, but it would be nice once in a while to just meet a guy the old-fashioned way, right? (By old-fashioned I mean like, at a bar. Not an arranged marriage or anything.)

But I never quite know how to make it happen. Although I'm a friendly person, I'm definitely on the shy side about making the first move. All you braver ladies out there who can do it, I salute you. But for those of us that are a little more reserved, how do you get the guys to come to you?

In order to figure out how to make things happen off the Internet, I spoke to expert Adam LoDolce, who gives advice to both men and women as "The Dating Confidence Coach". His new e-book, The Top 5 Reasons Why Quality Guys Are NOT Approaching You (and How to Change That)