A new dating site has hit the Internet, and despite its efforts to seem more Match.com than red-light district, it looks to me like a thinly veiled escort site. Founded by Brandon Wade SeekingArrangement.com, WhatsYourPrice.com calls itself "the eBay of online dating." The site likens its buy-a-first-date concept to charity date bidding, addressing the "p" word in its PR kit by emphasizing, Read more

As Match.com's resident relationship expert, Whitney Casey, knows how to tailor her advice to a modern audience. Now the author of The Man Plan: Drive Men Wild . . . Not Away wants to help us tailor our dating profiles to our dream guys. In the super-saturated online world of dating, the profile is your first chance to make a grand impression. Here are four tips from Whitney to help you do that. Read more

Opposite personalities may attract, but so do physical look-alikes. Yes, not only are we attracted to people who look like us, but we're attracted to people who resemble our opposite-sex parents. Personally, I think people just run in homogeneous circles and familiarity breeds comfortableness, but science disagrees. It's not just about hair and eye color or personal style, but facial structure. Read more

Love may be among the ruins, but flirting is alive and well in the streets of Athens. Badoo.com, a site that encourages social networking through flirting, analyzed 12 million flirtations across 180 countries and named Athens the top come-hither city of its self-titled "World Flirtation League." Is the site just very popular in Greece? Badoo is a Denmark-based company, so I suspect most of its Read more

OK Cupid is always crunching numbers on what profiles garner the most attention, and this week it noticed an odd trend: women whose average attractiveness ratings (as determined by readers) are about the same don't necessarily receive the same number of responses. In fact, they can vary widely. Upon looking further, it found women whom fellow users consistently rate about the same (say 3.5 out Read more

We first saw the sex-for-favors exchange with Sugardaddies.com, which vaguely matched "attractive, wealthy, and desirable people," but SugarSugar.com just goes for it, asking for men to be wealthy and women to be young. Besides normal dating site specs like height, body type, and education, SugarSugar asks "sugar babies" what they're looking for help with: rent or housing, tuition, gifts, car Read more

OK Cupid proved men actually do lie about their height on dating sites, but women are not immune to fibbing here or there. After all, we all want to look good on screen. There's pressure to avoid cliches and have the perfect picture, yet not so perfect that you worry about disappointing in real life. It's tempting to adjust your age (up or down), your dating history, and under- or overplay what Read more

Here's a post from OnSugar blog Perpetually Single. Gentle readers, have you ever found yourself playing email tag with an awesomely awesome person online for days, and then weeks, and then . . . nothing? They pretty much fall off the face of the earth as far you're concerned? Well, recently, well, really a few weeks ago, I found myself in a similar situation. Except, the email tagging lasted Read more

After nine years of matching couples in adulterous bliss, AshleyMadison.com has accumulated enough info to be crunched into a study about what people look for in affairs. The initial finding is as trite as a midlife crisis: men will take pretty much any sex they can get, while women are choosy. What exactly are women holding out for in a second home of a relationship? A part-time commitment: Read more

When it comes to finding someone you're compatible with, there are many factors, and it's not as simple as one plus one equals two. But if you look at online dating sites, you see a list of categories meant to find your "match." Some sites are even built on certain compatibility measures, such as favorite books, your level of attractiveness (or unattractiveness), your political beliefs, or even Read more