Love + Sex

Very confused about night with boss

nospam@example.com (factorygirl) — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:42:02 -0700

Hi! I need some advice as I am driving myself crazy! I went to a party that was non-work related, but with co workers. My boss and I ended up getting very drunk and having sex. He passed out after and I went home. Oops! The next day, I was not sure whether he remembered or not. At work on Monday,...

Naked: Letters to your beautiful body

nospam@example.com (Anne Fitzgerald, Elastic Waist) — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:32:50 -0700

I spend a lot of time talking behind my body's back. I talk about my floppy knees and my weak little spaghetti arms, and my flappy belly. I talk about my sad non-boobs and I make fun of my Shar-Pei butt and I tell people that I would be perfect, if only I got a whole lot of plastic surgery which...

Ah, the perils of dating the "assertive" man

nospam@example.com (Erin Flaherty, Shine staff) — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:14:13 -0700

This is a phone message from perhaps the douchiest dude in the world. Yet, why does it sound so damn familiar?

"The back story on this is that a girl named Olga was out with her friends in the Marina district of San Francisco (known for being a popular hang out for douches), and she talked to this guy named Dmitri for all of two minutes. Then she gave him her card and said 'give me a call.' The above is the messages he left. Listen to the whole thing, it just keeps getting better and better. I won’t even tell you my favorite parts because i don’t want to ruin anything. Just listen."--Holytaco

Dating diaries: How do you keep sparks in your relationship?

nospam@example.com (Rich Santos, Marie Claire) — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:05:24 -0700

Fourth of July conjures up memories of steamed crabs, fireflies, and sparklers. Yeah, those things are kind of random, but that's the protocol for a late afternoon Baltimore cookout in the summer oh, and terrible, terrible cheap beer. One would have to head further South to get real fireworks,...

It's Brozilian Time

nospam@example.com (Em and Lo, The Daily Bedpost) — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:25:13 -0700

We happened to catch an interview with Jay-Z on the Jonathan Ross Show in London last week, and we have to say: that dude is funny. And charming. (Jay-Z, we mean...or Jay-Zed, as Jonathan Ross nicknamed him.) Who knew? Well, besides Beyoncé. We never really got what she saw in him before--and now,...

Life before breast implants: What naked girls used to look like

nospam@example.com (Weetabix, Elastic Waist) — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:33:45 -0700

In my house, my hippie mother felt that it was more natural for me to see movies with naked people making love (that's the term 8 out of 10 hippie mothers preferred) than movies where people were trying to kill each other. As it was, I was totally accustomed to seeing breasts on our early...

Should I tell her that her boyfriend is cheating on her with his ex?

nospam@example.com (kimmy) — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:46:58 -0700

I have recently fallen out with somone I thought of as a good friend. This so called friend has an ex who moved to another country a few years back but they still keep in touch. He visits this country regularly and although he is in a relationship (which he lied about) he still sleeps with his ex....

The scientific method to being "sexy"

nospam@example.com (Erin Flaherty, Shine staff) — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 02:54:20 -0700

Allure's new sex issue is out, and I love, love, love all the juicy details. My favorite piece is called "The Laws of Attraction," in which they ask different experts to define "What is sexy?" according to the fields they work in, which are, anthropology, scent, science and acting. You'll have to buy the magazine to get the whole story, but here's the gist of what they're saying:

CrazyBlindDate.com: The Russian roulette of dating

nospam@example.com (Em and Lo, The Daily Bedpost) — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:01:46 -0700

CrazyBlindDate is a fairly new dating site, active in seven cities right now (New York, L.A., Boston, D.C., San Francisco, Chicago and Austin), that lets you set up blind dates very last minute (like for tonight). There are no profiles, no photos--hence the "crazy." Their target market is "really fun, adventurous and spontaneous people...who are trying to get out of a dating rut or just want some kind of 'crazy' night out." Do you think this sounds fun or well, just plain crazy?