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NEWS ABOUT: love

love stories: 66 news summaries

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 Makeout Movie 
 Heats Up City of Light 

Kisses from Paris targets young lovers

Nov 10, 09 3:00 AM CST
(Newser) - A short film by a well-known director of a couple making out in parks, under bridges and on the streets of Paris is the city's latest attempt to seduce tourists. The 3-minute movie, Kisses From Paris, debuts on YouTube today. The quickie film features a smooching woman lamenting to her... More »

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tourism • love • Paris • kisses • Yvan Attal

 Tell This Website 
 Where You've Had Sex 

Let the world know where you've made whoopee on IJustMadeLove.com

Oct 8, 09 7:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - A new website lets you share your carnal experiences with the world: IJustMadeLove.com uses a modified version of the Google Maps engine, on which users can mark an address where they just did the horizontal tango—or see where others have done it. The site asks for some details:... More »

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Internet • sex • love • Google Maps • website

Facebook Sparks
'Retrosexual' Romance

Finding long-lost love just got a whole easier—and more high-tech

Sep 13, 09 1:57 PM CDT
(Newser) - When it comes to reconnecting with a long-lost love, high school reunions are so 20th century. Many instead are turning to Facebook to track down a former flame, Time reports. “Facebook makes it easier for you to take that first step of finding someone again," says a Columbia... More »

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high school • Facebook • love • Fling • retrosexual

Want to Be a Chick Magnet? Stop Showering

Smelling chemical in sweat makes women
consider men cuter

Sep 10, 09 1:44 PM CDT
(Newser) - Men, if you want to win over your date, maybe you should skip the shower. A chemical found in both sexes' sweat attracts women, a study suggests. A researcher in Scotland dabbed a bit of the testosterone-derived chemical on female subjects’ upper lips before a speed-dating session, the Independent reports.... More »

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women • men • sex • love • pheremones • sweat • attraction • romance • pheromone • androstadienone

Love Boosts Creativity,
Lust Improves Logic: Study

Tests find that logic puzzles stump the romantic, while the lustful lack creative thinking

Sep 1, 09 9:29 AM CDT
(Newser) - The lovestruck enjoy a surge in creative powers while those who are merely randy are sharper logicians, a new study finds. Dutch researchers asked students to imagine either a romantic walk with a loved one or a one-night stand with a casual acquaintance before giving them a set of problems... More »

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love • psychology • creativity

(Newser) - Online dating sites are so packed with possible matches that they cause “cognitive overload” in seekers, leading to unconsidered choices, the MIT Technology Review reports. The lovelorn may say they want a wider variety of candidates, but they spend less time evaluating them, new research shows. “More search... More »

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Internet • love • search engine • online dating • relationship • academic research • matchmaking • cognitive overload

 What Not to Say to a Woman 


Jul 13, 09 8:21 PM CDT
(Newser) - Lovelife dragging a bit? AskMen plays virtual wingman, listing 10 things a guy should never say to a woman:
  1. Can I kiss you? This yells that you’re a boy, not a man.
  2. Can I take you on a date somewhere? Act confident and in control. Say something
... More »

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women • men • love • kissing • dating • romance • pick up lines

Kid's Looks May Affect Mom's Love: Study

Women more likely than men to look away
from ugly babies

Jun 24, 09 12:27 PM CDT
(Newser) - A mother’s love may be “determined by facial attractiveness,” a new study suggests in finding that women were more likely than men to avert their gaze from an unattractive baby. Researchers showed men and women photos of normal and abnormal infants; men and women gave equal attractiveness... More »

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parenting • women • men • love • baby • mother • babies • looks

 Broke Up Recently? 
 Museum Wants the Remnants 

Exhibit features everything from photos to prosthetics

Jun 23, 09 4:18 PM CDT
(Newser) - Not sure what to do with all those old love letters from your ex? Burning them seems too risky; keeping them, too sentimental. Why not put them on permanent display? The Museum of Broken Relationships allows you to do just that, BlackBook reports. Started as an art project in Croatia,... More »

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museum • love • romance • relationship • ex-boyfriends • Jay-ZTV • ex-girlfriends

Lovesick Baker Becomes Celebrated Somali Poet

Bodheri won enduring legacy but not his lady love

Jun 21, 09 12:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - Of all the bread joints in all the world, she had to walk into his, writes Gwen Thompkins for NPR, and that began Somalia’s greatest tale of love and heartbreak. In the 1930s, Elmi Bodheri was just a poor baker—until he glimpsed a girl named Hodhan. Never mind... More »

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Somalia • love • poetry • bakery

OPINION

 Why Marriage Is Obsolete 
 (at Least for Women) 

Institution is obsolete—let's fix this 'bum deal'

Jun 17, 09 11:03 AM CDT
(Newser) - Marriage is fraught with “emotional pain, humiliation, and logistical difficulty.” And for women—expected to work, parent, tend to the house, and on top of all that, keep the romance alive—it’s a “bum deal,” writes Sandra Tsing Loh, herself ending a 20-year union, in... More »

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marriage • love • relationship • Sandra Tsing Loh

 Lovesick New Yorker 
 Sues Match.com 

Most listed on site actually don't subscribe, says NY man

Jun 11, 09 11:32 AM CDT
(Newser) - A Brooklyn man is suing Match.com over “humiliation and disappointment” suffered by users who seek dates with non-subscribers, the New York Post reports. Most people listed on the site, he says, “are canceled subscribers or never subscribed at all.” And those who e-mail them “feel... More »

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Internet • love • lawsuit • dating • Match.com • Sean McGinn

(Newser) - Elisabeth Fritzl has “renewed strength” after beginning a relationship with her bodyguard, the Telegraph reports. Fritzl, 42, was held captive in an Austrian cellar and raped by her father, Josef, for 24 years; she and her six children by her father are now under police protection. “They are... More »

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rape • Austria • love • incest • bodyguard • Josef Fritzl • Elisabeth Fritzl • protective custody

OPINION

 Get Your Priorities 
 in Order: Sex, Then Sleep 

Don't let tiredness ruin your love life

May 28, 09 10:41 AM CDT
(Newser) - Research reveals that more than three-quarters of Britons want sleep more than sex, which is understandable, writes Jackie Clune in the Daily Mail. In most people's busy lives, “sex just seems like another thing on the long list of Things To Do.” But it’s important for couples... More »

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sleep • sex • love • sleep deprivation • relationship • Britain • tired

(Newser) - Tired of texting your long-distance lover to say how much you care? A Scottish research lab hopes to connect couples with something a bit more poetic: "painted" light. Users of Mutsugoto wear touch-activated rings tracked by motion-sensing cameras mounted above their beds; caress your own arm and a matching... More »

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technology • love • light • dating • romance • relationship



 No Joke: 
 Funny Guys 
 Score With 
 Women 

Study shows women think humor equals intelligence

Apr 1, 09 8:51 AM CDT
(Newser) - Go ahead and play that April Fool’s Day prank, guys: Women are attracted to funny men and think they're smarter than sourpusses, a new study shows. Though humor is not actually linked to smarts, “women use humor as an indication of a guy’s intelligence,” said the... More »

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study • sex • humor • love • romance

 How Long to Fall in Love? 
 8.2 Seconds 

A man's gaze can indicate his intentions: study

Mar 26, 09 10:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - Is he in love? Grab a stopwatch to know: At first encounter, the length of man’s gaze betrays his interest in a woman, a study of 115 students’ eye movements has uncovered. Four seconds say he’s unimpressed, but 4.2 more and he may be in love, the... More »

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women • study • love • attraction • male brain • Howard Stern Grid

(Newser) - Romantic love is more enduring than previously thought, says a new study in the Review of General Psychology. Researchers surveyed more than 6,000 people, some newly coupled, some married for decades, and found that 13% still reported high levels of romance. That may not sound like much, but... More »

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love • psychology • romance

Newbies' Passion for Opera 'Like Love at First Sight'

Research suggests if you don't swoon first time, opera may not be for you

Mar 18, 09 8:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - The passion that opera fans feel for the art form is more akin to love at first sight than a slow-growing desire, Reuters reports. A sociologist focused on fans in the cheap seats who hadn't been brought up on opera, and found they tended to have an intense, explosive attraction... More »

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music • love • opera • psychology

(Newser) - Hillary Clinton had some serious business in Turkey today, but a stop at a talk show revealed a gushier side, Reuters reports. When asked about the "last" time she fell in love, she proved her diplomatic mettle. “It was so long ago, with my husband,” she said,... More »

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Hillary Clinton • Turkey • diplomacy • secretary of State • Bill Clinton • love • Obama administration • television interview

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