Posted by Susan Walsh on Sep 4, 2009 in
Hooking Up Realities,
What Guys Want Recently, the economics blog Marginal Revolution ran a piece called A Theory For Why Latvian Women are Beautiful, after a colleague returned from Latvia astounded by the beauty of the women there. This would hardly surprise Latvian women, 500 of whom marched in a Blonde Weekend parade last May to cheer people up during the [...]
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“I have no power. Why should she have the upper hand? Once in my life I would like the upper hand. I have no hand. No hand at all. She has the hand. I have no hand.”
George
“We all want the hand. Hand is tough to get.”
Jerry
Willard Waller was a sociologist who coined the phrase [...]
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“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.”
Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher
With my latest post How to Stimulate Demand in a Relationship Recession, I made Mary Lingwall of Austin, Texas really angry. Check out her article here: Things That Piss Me Off: [...]
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The worldwide luxury goods market, once thought immune to the ebbs and flows of economic fluctuations, is likely to enter a recession in 2009, according to Bain & Company’s Luxury Goods Worldwide Market Study. Francesco Trapani, CEO of Bulgari, insists that he will not risk the company’s image for opulence and exclusivity by slashing prices.
“This [...]
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The comedian Steve Harvey has written a bestseller called Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man. He says it’s his first project ever that isn’t about the money: “This book right here I did purely to empower women.” He was inspired to write it after his father-in-law asked his daughter’s boyfriend what his intentions [...]
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Posted by Susan Walsh on Dec 22, 2008 in
Relationship Strategies,
What Guys Want “I think the quality of sexiness comes from within. It is something that is in you or it isn’t and it really doesn’t have much to do with breasts or thighs or the pout of your lips. Sex appeal is fifty percent what you’ve got and fifty percent what people think you’ve got.”
Sophia [...]
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Posted by Susan Walsh on Dec 13, 2008 in
Hooking Up Realities,
Relationship Strategies
“Women are better off when sex is scarce and men have few outlets for sexual satisfaction, because men will offer women more under those circumstances than they will offer when sexual gratification is widely and freely available. It is rational for women to try to restrict men’s sexual opportunities, and one effective way to [...]
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Posted by Susan Walsh on Nov 14, 2008 in
Relationship Strategies,
What Guys Want “Here’s what he wants: to have sex with you.
Here’s what you want: to be courted, adored, wooed, admired, listened to, understood, wooed some more, forgiven for your foibles, your little peccadilloes, chased, called, pleaded with, cared for, kissed, loved and to have great sex.
You see the problem here? We want more stuff [...]
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