Anyone seriously interested in online dating, and that would be me (of course), and You — should find the following article very interesting —
Chemistry.com’s Wonk, Helen Fisher

Suppose this was yet another attempt by Match.com’s PR department to depict the company as hip and oh so web 2.0. Judge for yourself…would you entrust your romantic life and happiness to the staff cavorting in this YouTube video? Inside Match.com
I don’t know about you, but I hate watching people eat worms!

Is monogamy natural? An interesting question. An interesting article on the question. But the question remains. And the answer, of course, to some extent depends on who you ask! Please post your thoughts.
Is Monogamy Natural?

Another instance of, the more things change, the more they stay the same. Ran across this recent ivillage article on the plights and perils of online dating, What has changed, according to the perspicacious writer of the article, is that online dating is now mainstream. Imagine that! Online daters no longer need to blanch with […]

Amanda cut my hair the other day at
Carefree Haircutting on 2nd Street in Belmont Shore. You can hardly tell. That’s why I go to her. And I like her personality. I’m not a salon girl. My salon history has been one of serial monogamy. I tend to stick with a person and place for a […]

I swear that I date primarily in the hope of meeting a soulmate. I’m not just researching for flirtysomething…swear. That’s what makes flirtysomething different from all other sites. It was created from the inside out. By an inveterate online dater. Me. Combined with it doesn’t suck!
Therefore, because all of the above is true…I have […]

Sorry for my protracted absence. I’ve been caught up in a Bat Mitzvah, birthdays, fund raising, end of semester, Mother’s Day and all the blow back that ensues from such engagements. And frankly, who’s reading anyway? And if you are there, dear Reader, perhaps your heart has grown even fonder in my absence.
So here are […]

I like to call flirtysomething’s target market, “the niche with no name.”
One reason, I suppose, it reminds me of Beckett’s, “The Unnameable.” An early literary revelation.
But mainly, “the niche with no name” is apt in its refusal to stereotype, label, categorize…the flirtysomething crowd. To do so would inevitably fall short in defining the […]

Not always possible, as this old story illustrates –
I sit as far away from him as possible without ejecting from the passenger side & stare out the window miserable beyond words or reason. As much as I think I want a partner, and as much as I like this particular boyfriend -
1. I now […]

Chemistry.com is Match.com’s attempt to meet eHarmony’s bet on “scientific” testing for love, and to raise them one. Without doing a blow-by-blow comparison of the two “scientific” methods for matchmaking, based on my own limited experimentation with both — Chemistry’s system is as ridiculous, labyrinthine, and self-defeating as eHarmony’s!
Full disclosure: I’ve never first-hand experienced […]