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Beauty’s Not Falling For This Beast

Posted by Susan Walsh on Oct 20, 2009 in Relationship Strategies, What Guys Want

I hadn’t really planned a post for today, but I woke up to a couple of things this morning that I just have to share. Before lunch today I had already felt: moved, amused, proud, surprised, enlightened, horrified, sickened, shocked, bewildered, repulsed and consumed by paroxysms of laughter. In other words, there’s good news, and [...]

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My Failed Pheromones Experiment

Posted by Susan Walsh on Jan 27, 2009 in Girl Talk, Hooking Up Realities, Tidbits

“I’m afraid Dr. Baker is running a little late.”
Damn it, does this guy ever run on time? It’s only 9 am! I settle into an uncomfortable Colonial wooden chair and glance at the magazines arrayed on the scuffed coffee table. Ancient. I desultorily grab a two year-old Harper’s Bazaar with half its cover missing. Thumbing [...]

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How to Figure Out if He Has Relationship Potential

Posted by Susan Walsh on Jan 3, 2009 in Hooking Up Realities, Relationship Strategies, What Guys Want

“I love romance. I’m a sucker for it. I love it so much. It’s pathetic.”
Drew Barrymore

If you have had enough of hooking up with either randoms or friends, and you feel ready for a relationship, it’s important that you not waste your time and energy on boys who don’t have any relationship potential. You need [...]

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The Clothes That Got Me Laid: A Newish Blog

Posted by Susan Walsh on Dec 27, 2008 in Girl Talk, Tidbits, What Guys Want

While working on a piece on Feminism and Hooking Up, I stumbled across a blog called The Clothes That Got Me Laid.  I love it – it is a highly irreverent and fun series of stories about what people wear when they hook up. Girls work so hard to look good when they go out; [...]

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For True Love, Pick a Beta Male

Posted by Susan Walsh on Dec 4, 2008 in Girl Talk

Last week at Thanksgiving dinner, we had a variety of family members and friends over who had not previously met. The 20 year-old girls got talking about their favorite guy friends, referring to these boys using such affectionate nicknames as Precious Delight, Pure Sweetness and Totally Dorbs (for adorable). A 28 year-old guy overhearing this [...]

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