The XX Factor : dating

Flirt Directly at the Camera

Nina Shen Rastogi — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 21:07:00 GMT

As someone who spent a good swath of her 20s happily trolling online dating sites, I was intrigued by this post on OKTrends , the stats-tastic blog from the founders of romance-and-quizzes site OKCupid . The founders—all math majors from Harvard—dipped...(read more)

1950s Dating Horrors

Emily Yoffe — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:47:00 GMT

Hanna , I am the product of the “simpler” '50s dating culture. My parents were young, hot for each other, met their families' requirements of looks (her) and potential earning capacity (him), and married at ages 19 and 20. Their union produced four children,...(read more)

A Tall Glass of Water is More Than Half Full

Dayo Olopade — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 17:43:00 GMT

A new book by Arianne Cohen says that estrogen correlates to shortness. Testosterone correlates to height. Though I spent my ‘tween years in a steady hunch—the better to hear my wee male classmates—the idea of taking hormonal treatments to squelch normal...(read more)

Women Not So Picky About Men After All?

Meghan O'Rourke — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:58:00 GMT

An interesting new study reported on by Science Daily suggests that evolutionary psychologists might be wron g to speculate that women are choosier than men about mates... (To read the rest of this post , visit our new website DoubleX.com !)...(read more)

In Which I Read My Blog Post Aloud While I Write It

Samantha Henig — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:04:00 GMT

Willa , you bring up a great point about the attempts and failures by movies and TV shows to capture courtship and romance as it actually exists in 2009, in all its technological glory. That Drew Barrymore speech from He's Just Not That Into You annoyed...(read more)

Dating in the 21st Century

Willa Paskin — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:51:00 GMT

Does dating ever change? That's the question hovering around ABC's newest dramedy Cupid , about a man who's either the god of love or a delusional crazy who thinks he is. The show, which premieres tonight, stars Bobby Cannavale as Trevor, the maybe-god...(read more)

The New York Times Contradicts Itself

Torie Bosch — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 22:01:00 GMT

In a weekend New York Times op-ed on hook-up culture in high schools and colleges, Charles M. Blow writes as if casual sex instead of dating is a new-millennium thing: "Dating is dated. Hooking up is here to stay. ... When I first heard about hooking...(read more)