Brad & Angie's Super Bowl Date, Jen's Bikini Vacation, & Pantless Ashton! Watch Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie arriving at the Super Bowl with Maddox, find out which male costar Jennifer Aniston is vacationing with in Mexico, and check out Ashton Kutcher in leopard print underwear, all on the latest PopSugar Rush!
We've always been told if we could turn romantic love into companion love, then marriage might just be happily ever after. But now more and more scientists agree that companion love is not the answer to a happy marriage; staying madly in love is!
A UC Santa Barbara study looked at brain scans of couples who claimed to be madly in love after 20 years of marriage and compared them to couples newly in love. Couples married for 20 years showed the same amount of neural activity minus the anxiety and obsession of new love. And early surveys show this love appears to be present in about 30 percent of married couples in the US.
While it's great news for the lucky few, what does it mean for the other 70 percent? Researchers say not to throw in the towel, but their advice makes me want to. "Go see a play," "take a class together," and "sex is always good" don't sound like the keys to everlasting love.
Essentially couples whose neural activity isn't sizzling need to generate it themselves. Scientifically it can be done through bonding — hence the share-an-experience advice — but can a bond ever be forced in reality?
"Thanks to simple laws of supply and demand, it is often the women who must assert themselves romantically or be left alone on Valentine’s Day, staring down a George Clooney movie over a half-empty pizza box."
— Reporter Alex Williams discusses the shortage of men on college campuses and the dire consequences facing female coeds.
Valentine's Day Gets a Sequel: 5 Other Holiday Rom-Com Ideas The star-packed Valentine's Day— which hasn't even hit theaters yet — is reportedly getting a sequel. The new installment will be based around New Year's Eve instead, with an ensemble of characters celebrating the big day in the setting of New York City.
Snooki, Pauly D, and The Situation took the Jersey Shore name to a whole new low on Ellen today. She quizzed them about New Jersey (Where is Newark Airport?) and other things a fifth grader would know (Was New Jersey on the North or South side of the Civil War?). And yet they struggled. I just don't buy anyone educated in the US can't tell the North from the South. Watch it, and decide if you think it's real or they're playing it up.
Our friends Em & Lo recently wrote the book Sex: How to Do Everything and turned their risqué research into a UK TV series. If you don't live on that side of the Atlantic, but still want to learn "everything," you can get the program on DVD. It might make for the perfect naughty, yet educational Valentine's Day gift. Since Em & Lo wrote the book on sex (literally!), I asked the pair for some advice.
What's the first tip you would give someone just starting to explore better sex?
What works for you trumps any sex advice you get, even sex advice from us! Pay attention to your body and how it reacts, and share those responses with your partner. Also, masturbate, masturbate, masturbate — especially women. It's the best way to learn your body's sexual response. How can you teach a partner what turns you on if you don't know yourself?
What should go on the sex to-do list of a woman who thinks she’s tried everything?
It really depends who that woman is — a hipster in downtown NYC who attends orgies on a weekly basis? Or a housewife in the midwest who thinks she's a little kinkier than the Joneses? Taboos are such a personal thing, so it's impossible to know what someone means by "everything." So the only way to really answer that is to say, if you've haven't tried something and just the thought of it makes you blush, that's a very good sign that you'll probably enjoy it! Check out our show if you need ideas . . .
How would you get a skeptical or shy partner into new sex techniques?
To see what Em & Lo have to say and to watch the trailer from their DVD, read more
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