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by Scott Alden for HowAboutWe

What started as a casual, Ongoing Booty Call can turn into an actual relationship faster than you can text "U should come over." Here are 20 signs to look out for

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1. Your friends not only know his/her name, but they ask about him/her.
2. You text them "What R U Doing?" and you actually just mean "What are you doing?"
3. They text you before 8pm.
4. They ask how your presentation/test/interview/trial went.
5. You know anything at all about what happened in their life between hookups.

Related: The 9 Rules of Booty Call Etiquette

6. They call you. On the phone.
7. You post a link to their Facebook wall.
8. They post something to your Facebook wall and you don't fly into a panic and delete it immediately before anyone sees.
9. You allow yourself to be photographed with them.
10. They spend the night, you both sleep in and get brunch the next

By Chiara Atik for HowAboutWe.com

Philadelphia Phillies outfielder John Mayberry Jr. got himself a little crush on actress Antoinette Nikprelaj, an actress from the last Pirates of the Caribbean movie. So he asked his agent to find her and ask her out for him.

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Now, Mayberry probably assumed his agent would play it cool and subtly contact her to see if she would be interested in a date. You know, maybe talk him up a bit, like a good wingman would.

Unfortunately, that is not what happened.

Read the horrible, embarrassing email that the agent sent Nikprelaj's team:

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"I hate to even be sending you this email, and I'm quite embarrassed to say the least, but we have a young client on the Philadelphia Phillies who asked us if we knew any agents at Innovative Artists and could connect him to Antoinette Nikprelaj. I know you're not a dating or set-up service, but John Mayberry Jr. (Phillies

by Scott Alden for HowAboutWe

The Internet is all bent out of shape today over what could be considered the Holy Grail of leaked nude photos: Scarlett Johansson. It's the same story as countless times before -- celeb takes naked pics of self, celeb's phone/computer/computer gets hacked, everyone in the entire world sees celeb naked, everyone blames the celeb.

Related: 8 Things About Sexting That Actually Turn Women On

The reactions to the ScarJo leak have so far been no different --

"We expected her to be a little smarter than this!" declared a clearly disappointed Perez Hiton.

Gizmodo ran the pics with the words "You Asked For It" covering Johansson's breasts.

Maybe it's just me, but this sounds an awful lot like blaming a rape victim for "dressing too slutty" or "being in the wrong part of town."

Related: Are Women Who've Had 5 Or More Partners Promiscuous?

Scarlett Johansson took private photos of herself which were stolen by hacker and people

Scott Alden for HowAboutWe

So you started dating someone this summer and you're not sure if it's going to last into the more blustery weather. Maybe it was never meant to. Maybe it was just a "summer fling, don't mean thing." There are only 11 ways to know for sure.

Related: 10 "Firsts" On The Way From Casual Dating To Serious Relationship

1. You find yourself getting excited for the new Fall TV line-up. During sex.

2. You were so panicked that they might suggest a couples costume for Halloween that you've told them you don't condone holidays that "celebrate evil."

3. You hope their Pumpkin Spice Latte burns their stupid tongue so that maybe they'll stop saying such stupid things for one minute.

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4. You're seeing someone else. (It's a book of Sudoku puzzles.)

5. You're not so much going on dates with them as "temporarily putting off your knitting."

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6. Their

By Chiara Atik for HowAboutWe.com

Most women would be thrilled if a guy sent over a bouquet of fresh flowers. Not Madonna! Last week, the singer was less than gracious after receiving a bouquet from a fan.

Related: 3 Questions To Ask A Guy On A Date (And 3 To Avoid!)

"I absolutely loathe hydrangeas," she was caught saying to a friend on video. "He obviously doesn't know that."

Well, Madonna may have seemed harsh in the video, but no one can accuse her of not having a sense of humor. A week after her flower-disapproval made the internet rounds, the singer released her own video...an apology, of sorts.

Related: 7 Signs He Wants To Be "Just Friends"

By Chiara Atik for HowAboutWe.com

An awful story in the NY Post today, via Jezebel: a nurse is suing the NYU Langone Medical Center after enduring sexual harassment and teasing from her co-workers, who had taken to calling her "The 41 Year-Old Virgin." You know, like the movie? The 40 Year-Old Virgin? So clever.

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Apparently everyone from doctors to nurses had taken to calling her by the moniker, and constantly urging her to have sex. (I could make a joke about poor bedside manner, here.) One pediatric neurosurgeon in particular took it upon himself to enlighten her on what sex is actually like by quoting one of the more gross Jonah Hill lines of the movie. The situation worsened when she was diagnosed with endometriosis, which, for some reason, became the topic of hospital cafeteria gossip.

Now she's suing the hospital for $45 million in damages.

Related: The Seemingly Harmless Question You Should Stop Asking Single People

Two

by Scott Alden for HowAboutWe

A recent Date Report survey revealed that 70% of our readers think that cyber sex is the same as cheating. Hopefully, the 30% who disagree aren't in relationships with them.

While 25% of respondents draw the line at physical contact, the overwhelming majority feel that even an exchange of words that are sexual in nature, typed on a computer screen, is a betrayal.

Only 5% of respondents made any distinction between video and text only chat and no one made any distinction between cyber sex with professionals or... peers.

Related: Poll Results -- If You're Sleeping Together You Should Already Be Exclusive

What's alarming about this is that the line between porn and "sex cam sites" can be awfully blurry. At what point does it become cheating? Is it okay to watch a person who's not your partner engaging in sexual acts as long as it's not happening live? Does it become cheating when you chat with them, or is it cheating as soon as you

by Scott Alden for HowAboutWe

Askmen recently published an analysis of what a man's preferred sex position says about the man who prefers it.

It's a little bleak.

For example, your predilection toward doggy style indicates that you "have a real disdain toward women, and you try and degrade them any chance you get" -- an assessment that is really kind of degrading to both men and women in and of itself.

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Sure, it's a joke. But it's a joke that supports the very worst, most harmful assumptions about men's sexuality. I could go on and on about the ways in which such a joke shames both men and women for having the kind of sex they want to have, not to mention the fact that some of the most loving, connected sex I've had in my life has been in the canine position -- but I would l probably only be written off as a wet blanket by the ranks of bro-dom.

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