Stop Lying in Your Personal Ads

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Consider this your personal memo: it’s time to be honest about yourself and what you want, starting with your personal ad.

Faithful Women Wanted

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What an ad calling for “faithful women” says about the dating mentality of men, nowadays…

How to Successfully Meet Women Online

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Let your online dating profile be a window into who you really are.

Real Life 40 Year-Old Virgin

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Eli and Josie encourage a real-life 40 year-old virgin to keep looking for the partner who will accept him for all the greatness he has to offer.

Online Dating Science Fiction: The Robot That Stole Her Heart

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In honor of the late Ray Bradbury, Oliver Lee Bateman attempts to launch an entirely new sub-genre: online dating science fiction.

In Search of My Mojo

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Matt Crowder knows that while patience is key in dating, waiting for “Ms. Right” can quickly turn to complacency.

Talk: The Female Aphrodisiac

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Edgar Ramsey knows the way to a woman’s heart.

The Match.com Bachelor

Dear you, The reason I have carefully chosen to randomly message you is because I am hoping to interest you in an exciting competition that I will be hosting in the near future.  This competition, which is based on the hit television show “The Bachelor,” will consist of the 12 to 15 of you showing [...]

Online Dating and the Real ‘You’

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Oliver Lee Bateman has a foolproof guide to setting up your online dating profile.

Niche dating is ‘wack

Once you’ve got a colostomy bag…     Raise your hand if you’re single and are on Facebook?  OK.  Thanks.  Now raise your hand if you’ve ever tried online dating?  Great.  One more question.  How many single people on Facebook see those bullshit ads on the right side of the page, click the ad yet [...]

Why Men Are More Likely to Want Kids

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Heterosexual single Americans now blur societal gender lines in respect to dating, love, and marriage.

The Bachelor

That would be cool. Tonight I’m chilling on Twitter when I should be sleeping, and somehow @karensugarpants darts off course and the topic becomes The Bachelor/Bachelorette and what freakin losers they are.  Suddenly, @guavalicious suggests that we start a campaign to make ME the next Bachelor.  I like the idea. I start thinking about this [...]

Truth In Advertising

All I want is a little online street cred.  Is that too much to ask? Online dating is an imperfect science.  Heck, it may not even be a science.  The more I think about it, it’s kind of a crapshoot.  Most of us put a lot of time and effort into building a profile on [...]

The Phone Sex Operator

“Making sex is like a Chinese dinner: It ain’t over ’til you both get your cookies.” Old Man Dunphy, Outside Providence I once received a fortune cookie that read, “When you decide to stop searching, only then will you find what your heart desires.”  That sounded a little corny, yet there was a hint of [...]

The Bookstore Chick

So my daughter picks up this woman for me at Barnes and Noble… I think that its hilarious to listen to some single dads complain about their weekend with the kids.  They get all dramatic about this and that and how they were so exhausted and couldn’t wait to get the kids back to their [...]

The Period One

Yeah.  It’s exactly what you’re thinking… She will always be my first.  I don’t remember her name.  Patty seems to come to mind for some reason, but maybe it’s because she was Irish with red hair.  Her name is completely unimportant to this story, because for the last 6 years all anyone has ever called [...]