Nov 19, 2009 -
According to new research, it's usually a man who says, "I love you" first. Yes, somebody actually studied this. The researchers reasoned that in general women have a more realistic view of relationships, and are thus, less likely to get carried away early on.
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Nov 18, 2009 -
People magazine has declared that Johnny Depp is the sexiest man alive. Runners-up for the annual award included Ryan Reynolds, David Beckham, Gilles Marini, Jake Gyllenhaal, Bradley Cooper, and of course, sparkly Robert Pattinson. While I'm totally on board with the Johnny choice, who would you give the title to?
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Nov 18, 2009 -
Yesterday we revealed that the New Oxford American Dictionary chose "unfriend" as the word of the year. Many of you thought it should be something like "sexting," or "de-friend" at least.
Since we're headed toward a new decade, this story got me thinking about which lexicon newcomer would make a good word of the decade.
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Nov 17, 2009 -
A yearning to escape. A lust for forbidden love. A passion for romance.
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Nov 16, 2009 -
Twilight's Bella may find "the one," but Kristen Stewart doesn't believe he exists. When Pop's Molly asked Kristen if she believes in "the one," the actress defended her doubt saying that she doesn't believe there are "chosen ones" who find their soul mates and other unlucky people who don't. What does she believe?
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Nov 13, 2009 -
A popular nightclub in Australia has decided to ban "metrosexuals" in an attempt to curb violence. Apparently a certain style of dress is enough to start a bar fight.
On the list of forbidden clothing items you will find low-cut v-neck t-shirts, skinny jeans, pointy white shoes, popped collars, and Ed Hardy tops.
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Nov 10, 2009 -
It's no secret that we love female writers around here at Sugar HQ, but according to Publishers Weekly, no book written by a woman was good enough to make the list of the top 10 titles of 2009. Maybe it's time for women to start taking masculine pen names again.
In response to the disappointing list, the group Women in Letters and Literary Arts (WILLA) has put together a list of books that were overlooked, written by authors like Lorrie Moore, Rita Dove, Margaret Atwood, Alice Munro, Mavis Gallant, and Alicia Ostriker.
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Nov 10, 2009 -
In a funny and kind of sad essay, a writer on Salon discusses how sex with men who watch porn (or maybe she means too much porn) can sometimes make her feel like she's starring in a private porno against her will. The moves are too rehearsed, too cheesy, too porn-y. "It’s hard to feel fully in the moment," she writes, "when you’re thinking of what it would be like to watch it."
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Nov 04, 2009 -
Maybe we can blame the foreign exchange students in high school or the soap operas we watched that featured mysterious foreigners whose arrival shook up small towns like the fictional Port Charles. Whatever the cause, a lot of chicks love a foreign accent.
Well, the results of a worldwide poll asking 5,000 women who has the sexiest accent have yielded an answer: the Irish.
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Nov 04, 2009 -
A heartthrob is defined as a man, typically a celebrity, whose good looks excite immature romantic feelings in women. Immature or not, almost every woman I know once crushed on a fresh-faced famous person with heavily-marketed sex appeal. In fact, some grown women currently lust for Edward Cullen Robert Pattinson.
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