Yeah, I also think that most women experience sexual trauma before 25. By that I mean the verbal, physical and sexual assaults and include the 'sexual situations that go from consensual to non-consensual' and the 'sex you don't really want to have but go along with'. I also say 25 because I noticed a sharp decline in…

Yeah morri. I find these articles about 'mail-order-brides' to be misleading. They are about the myth of foreign women to American manchildren who have no f'ing idea. A guy who is a bad prospect to his local women is not necessarily a good match for a 32 year-old with two masters degrees either.

Yeah, Russia =/= Ukraine. My uncle (who is a widow with grown children) married a woman from Ukraine and when she first got here she would cry when she saw fresh fruit like strawberries and oranges. I think it would be difficult to understand the difficulty of life in the former USSR if you do not live there.

My spouse…

Basing your mate choice on such charateristics is a bad idea in any situation (less likely to result in a emotionally compatible mate) but if you're paying someone else to come off as a total doofus in the process... In Asia it is less weird to rely on others to choose your mate what with staight-up arranged marriages…

Well, not as good as 40s I expect. If it's not getting better, you're doing it wrong. I wish teens and twentysothings knew this instead of buying into the youth lie. Maturity is a good thing.

There is a woman shortage in China. Some wealthier bachelors advertize in mags or buy billboards. Matchmaking is a weird awkward situation there :)

ALWAYS go to the authorities even if you feel your situation is unique or 'not that awful'. Remember, online assholes have way more victims than offline assholes because they are shielded from immediate consequence of their actions. Spot one, report one, make a difference :)

Oh dear, HFCS tastes so bad! I purposefully avoid stuff with artificial sweeteners (they are easy to spot) but HFCS is only labelled in tiny type and in so many things that I used to love. HFCS tastes *sweeter* than sugar which makes things like Coke unbearable!

Could have called it '100 reasons not to get married' but what is most funny is that it's obvious this book wasn't edited... I mean the people who published it didn't care... At all...

Artificial sweeteners (everything except Splenda) are full of neurotoxins. I'm surprised some people don't get headaches from them. Splenda is a less problematic but it still makes you fat in the same way sugar does. My rule of thumb is, use the natural stuff (butter, sugar, etc.) but not much of it. Gave up sugar in…

Woohoo!!

Luxembourg is just... strange. I mean it is beautiful but when I was there the pace was like an empty movie set... My taxi driver used to be an I.T. guy in Paris and drove a Mercedes while wearing a fancy suit... Even when I stabbed myself with a 2 inch rose bush thorn the hospital was empty (I saw 1 person + the…

I declare September 21 as International Hug Tim Gunn Day!

Yeah, unhappy low achievers as parents here too and they KNOW it so they will take every opportunity to declare you a loser in order to retain a certain sense of self-importance. You can win a Nobel prize, doesn't matter. It obviously gets more difficult to do that as kids get older and gain independence. I truly do…

Tim Gunn is one of the most awesome role model there is. He is super articulate (like he has words I never hear anybody use that bring a whole new level of meaning to his commentary). As an educator and a mentor and he uses his experience to provide super useful feedback. The latter is a great skill to develop and…

Not at all trying to be funny but as an abused child I have run against countless adults who tell me to stop whining about it, all kids get abused by their parents (I certainly hope not!) I was flabbergasted to learn that my experience of my mother calling me these names is not at all rare!! In fact, one of the recent…

Yup. Don't call your daughters 'whores', 'trollops', 'sluts' or anything like that because they are going to have to look it up! I spent most of my early adolescent years hidden in my room reading TIME magazine and watching 20/20 and The Price Is Right. My mother would call me a 'whore' (French word for whore…

Of all the stuff I can pay attention to in order to understand men better... Louis C.K.

Louis C.K. owns humanity.

Don't Google it :) I teach this as a fun activity outside of anything that could be considered 'Cock and Ball Torture' (CBT) It's a workshop I invented to fill a scheduling hole and it turned out to be a hoot so I've given it a few more times.

Stodden and Harries are both intelligent people yet they officially only exist as media props. I still think Stodden will do something noteworthy at some point. http://puremoan.com/index.php/2011…