Chemistry.com is having a free communication weekend this weekend. It runs September 18 through September 20, 2009.  Chemistry.com’s online dating process starts with a Chemistry Personality Profile, which was designed by Dr. Helen Fisher. Dr. Fisher is a biological anthropologist and author of books including, Why Him? Why Her?, Why We Love, and the Anatomy of Love.
For the next step, Chemistry.com will send you up to 5 matches a day. These matches are suited to your personality, as identified by your Personality Profile quiz. In addition, they will notify you when someone is interested in meeting you.
After that there’s the 1.2.3. …read more

I’ve been reading “Why Him? Why Her? Finding Real Love by Understanding Your Personality Type” this week. I’ve had it in my to-read pile for months, but new things come in all the time and sometimes good books get buried in the pile. The book was written by Helen Fisher, Ph.D, author of “The Anatomy of Love” and scientific adviser to Chemistry.com.
Working with Chemistry.com, she developed a system of four basic personality types. These are Explorers, Builders, Directors, and Negotiators. There’s a test in the book that will help you determine your main and your secondary personality types.
I am a …read more

Romantic Chemistry can be confusing – the way it works, why it works, and why sometimes it won’t work no matter how hard you try.  Dr. Helen Fisher, research professor in the department of anthropology at Rutgers University and author of Why We Love: The Nature and Chemistry of Romantic Love offers her insight in a series of articles at Chemistry.com, an online dating site. 
For example, in the article Romantic Chemistry, Explained, by Dan Bova, she tackles the question of why can a couple feel great sexual intimacy together, but still be unable to connect in other ways?  Dr Fisher explains:
“Sexual chemistry …read more

Over at Chemistry.com, they have a number of interesting articles on the issues of dating, attraction, chemistry, ect.  I’m working my way through them and I thought that an article, by Kimberly Dawn Neumann, entitled, Are Certain Types Destined To Date,  was timely in light of Lara’s First Dates #374 post last week. 
The article explains that some people look for someone like themself and some look for someone very different, but that for the most part, the successful relationship is the one in which the couples have complimentary personalities - not just exactly the same, not too different. Although, there is a danger …read more

Lisa Miller writes over at Newsweek.com about eHarmony.com’s troubles. The dating website, which boasts over 20 million users, is facing a class-action lawsuit over its alleged discrimination against gays and lesbians.
Personally, I think the suit is baseless. To be clear I have nothing against homosexuals. Part of the beauty of the web is that there’s a website to cater to any need. I just wonder why the plaintiffs in the eHarmony.com case didn’t just avoid the site and go to Chemistry.com, a competitor.

Here’s the commercial that Gayla mentioned in her, Rejected by eHarmony post.
It’s just funny cuz my younger brother mentioned it a while ago when we were chatting and I thought I’d find it on YouTube — and I did!
I guess it’s important that we pick the dating sites that would allow us to follow the idea, “Be Yourself“, right?
Note: This is not an expression that I am (or Dating Dames) for or against any of the dating sites mentioned in the post. They were simply used as an example for the point that I presented in …read more