Topic: Relationships

Afternoon Links: How To Deal With Your Boyfriend’s Unhealthy Eating

Afternoon Links: How To Deal With Your Boyfriend's Unhealthy Eating

• Got a partner whose eating habits are totally different? Here’s how to deal (YourTango)

• Ugh, we’re in pain just looking at this picture of Derek Jeter, who fractured his ankle (The Stir)

• Want to tone your lower abs? These four moves can help you get there (Fit Sugar)

• How social media can help your long-distance relationship stay together (Divine Caroline)

• The perfect lipstick is hard to find–but science can help you do it (YouBeauty)

• Need some Monday afternoon inspiration? This woman swam the English Channel just months after surgery for breast cancer (HuffPost Women)

Daily Fail: Study Says Stressed Men Like Large Women; Daily Mail Bashes Thin Women

Daily Fail: Study Says Stressed Men Like Large Women; Daily Mail Bashes Thin Women

A new study published in PLOS ONE this week says that stressed-out men are attracted to heavy women–which, unsurprisingly, doesn’t lead to any terribly illuminating conclusions about human sexuality or relationships. But it has led to some pretty heinous media coverage, especially by (you guessed it) The Daily Mail, once again pitting women against each other based on body types. More »

Afternoon Links: Show Us Your Thighs

Afternoon Links: Show Us Your Thighs

• The Huffington Post wants women to take photos of what their thighs actually look like (HuffPost Women)

• Growing out your bangs can get awkward–here are some tips for helping you through it (Divine Caroline)

• Everything you ever needed to know about cherry tomatoes (Organic Authority)

• What’s Kerri Strugg, the petite hero of the 1996 Olympics up to these days? (FitSugar)

• Yup, wine is totally fine when dieting. (The Frisky)

• According to Science, muscular dudes are bad boyfriends? We’re not sold (YourTango)

Study: Cheaters More Likely To Skip Condoms Than Those In Open Relationships

Study: Cheaters More Likely To Skip Condoms Than Those In Open Relationships

People who cheat in relationships also tend to be less diligent about safe sex, according to a new study in the Journal of Sexual Medicine. Compared to people who had their partner’s consent to have sex with others, people who had sexual affairs without a partner’s knowledge (i.e., cheaters) were 27% less likely to use condoms for vaginal sex and 35% less likely to use condoms for anal sex. More »

Oregon Woman Wins $900K From Man Who Gave Her Herpes

Oregon Woman Wins $900K From Man Who Gave Her Herpes

In a case of real-life imitating what I’m sure has been the subject of several Law & Order episodes, an Oregon woman was awarded $900,000 in a lawsuit against a retired Portland dentist who gave her herpes. Though sex between the unnamed 49-year-old plaintiff and her 69-year-old lover was consensual, she said he misled her about wearing a condom and failed to mention he had herpes until after they had sex. More »

Watch Alec Baldwin Do Yoga With Fiancee Hilaria Thomas At Cannes

Watch Alec Baldwin Do Yoga With Fiancee Hilaria Thomas At Cannes

Maybe it’s Cannes, or maybe it’shis yoga-guru fiancee, but Alec Baldwin looks positively “glowy” while doing yoga with Hilaria Thomas in this Hollywood Reporter video from Cannes. He discusses how yoga fits into his career, and why he takes it on the road, but we were most interested in his rave reviews of being in a  ”nutritionally-compatible” relationship. If only they all worked this way. More »

In The Future, Robot Prostitutes Could Help Fight Disease, Sex Trafficking, Cheaters’ Guilt

In The Future, Robot Prostitutes Could Help Fight Disease, Sex Trafficking, Cheaters' Guilt

It’s Friday, so let’s do something light and weird, shall we? Like robot prostitutes. According to some New Zealand researchers, brothels of the future will feature robot prostitutes, “a range of sexual gods and goddesses of different ethnicity, body shapes, ages, languages and sexual features” which could help stop the spread of sexually transmitted infections and human sex trafficking. More »

What Katie Roiphe (And Her Critics) Ignore: The Neuroscience Of Sexual Submission

What Katie Roiphe (And Her Critics) Ignore: The Neuroscience Of Sexual Submission

The wild success of the badly-written BDSM sexcapade Fifty Shades of Grey proves that what women really want is to be smacked around a bit more in bed—at least, so say certain members of the chattering class. This has (of course) prompted professional contrarian Katie Roiphe to shriek in glee over how mad all the feminists must be about this. Which has (of course) prompted all the feminists to roar in anger over how wrong Roiphe gets it, and how much they just adore rape play. It’s all fairly typical—of Roiphe, of bloggers, of how women’s sexuality gets covered, of our insipid online media cycle—and also fairly interesting, if you’re into this sort of thing. Which I am. Which is why I’d like to introduce something into the conversation that’s been largely ignored this time around: Science. Neuroscience, to be more specific—and how the brains of both men and women are wired for both sexual dominance and sexual submission. More »

What Your Choice In ‘Toxic Men’ Says About You

What Your Choice In 'Toxic Men' Says About You

Some guys are narcissists, some are self-centered, and some are controlling—even to the point of wanting authority over where you live, eat, and who you socialize with. Some don’t know how to express their feelings or be there for you emotionally. What do they all have in common? They are potentially toxic men, according to Dr. Lillian Glass, psychologist and author of Toxic Men: 10 Ways to Identify, Deal with, and Heal from the Men Who Make Your Life Miserable. More »

Men Like Small Breasts, Cheating And Other Men, According to Esquire Sex Survey

Men Like Small Breasts, Cheating And Other Men, According to Esquire Sex Survey

Esquire today released a preview of its 2012 sex survey, with the tagline “What’s normal now?” And the answers are mostly, well … fairly normal. But a few things jumped out at me as surprising. Let’s take a peek at how American dudes think (and by American dudes I mean Internet-connected men aged 21 to 59, ’cause that’s whom Esquire’s independent research firm surveyed). More »

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