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As promised, Cliff’s Notes/Barrons for the longer posts. Below: Why Girls Go for Assholes. -They don’t know they’re assholes-They’ll take any kind of attention they can get-They like a challenge-They think they can fix them Four theories. Three dislaimers. Lots of assumptions that make girls look not-so-great. But, in fairness, the basis of the post is that a lot of guys are assholes. Enjoy!

By very popular demand – an expose on the age-old question of why girls go for assholes. A fact everyone acknowledges but no one understands — sort of the like the solar system. The below attempts to explain why girls respond to assholes in social settings. It does not address why girls stay in relationships with assholes that treat them terribly. That’s for Oprah to …

We’re not the only ones who used the Olympics as an excuse to hook up. Apparently the 16,000 athletes were hip to the trend too… Sex and the Olympic City “Last night thousands of young men and women with the most fit, toned bodies in the world mingled for the last time before they fly home. What might they get up to?” *back to real …

It’s typically incompatibilities than end a relationship. She’s a Mormon, you’re a man. He’s a banker, you just got back from Peace Corp. She went to Notre Dame, you went to BC/USC/Georgetown/Michigan/Stanford/Villanova. This is not a revolutionary concept. Heavy hitters tend to be religion, level of intelligence, and cheating style, but a few recent conversations (slash nights) have made me wonder how the issue of …

It’s come to my attention that my posts are on long side of long. This seems very valid. From now on the long ones will come with Cliff’s Notes so you can decide that you want to read the whole thing. Today, in two sentences. I think dating progression goes weeknight after-work drinks, weeknight late-ish dinner, weekend dinner and drinks, day-date, then no-plan plan. My …

I was talking to my Mom the other day about a date I’d recently been on. I probably went on for five to ten minutes about the date details: where we went, what we ate, how he was great, blah blah. She listened intently-ish. “Wait, when was this?” she asked, just as I was getting to the part where we shared a cab and he …

Michael and I have decided that the Olympics are responsible for a lot of people getting ass lately. Not as in, people at the Olympics are hooking up with other Olympians, though that’s happening too. (Trojan hands out more condoms at the Olympics than they do at any other national or international event, ever). I’m saying the occasion of the 29th Olympiad (you have to …

Remember my good friend who couldn’t decide whether or not to make plans with that guy from her past? Here’s what went down: She used the number he provided to call him. It was not a fake number, so he answered. She let him know she’d be in the area over the weekend and, would he maybe like to grab a drink? He said, definitely, …

No time for a drawn out introduction today. Way too much to cover. There is a long-standing myth held by some girls that if you give it up too early, the good guys out there will no longer consider you serious girlfriend material — “too early” and “good guys” obviously being open to interpretation. For the sake of this conversation let’s say under five dates …

Yesterday one of my very best friends asked me for some of my very best advice. It was on the subject of a boy (shocker) who’d made vague contact (un-­heard of) that could be reacted to in a number of ways (over a number of mediums) depending on how his move was to be interpreted (I only thought there was one way to read it, …