Pheromones & Romance

Copyright © 2011 Dirk Sayers Not long ago, I ran across a provocative video featuring MIT Professor Sherry Turkle, a clinical psychologist. Her remarks in the video were about higher education, rather than online dating, but her observations have implications for women looking for meaningful relationships online. As a man who has been advising women [...]

Copyright © 2011 Dirk Sayers As the world of online dating has evolved, the natural result has been for the clever to get cleverer and the frustrated to become more frustrated. I read an article a while back that suggested that writers of profiles are now commoditizing themselves shamelessly…not to mention being more than a [...]

Copyright © 2011 Dirk Sayers In his post of January 18, 2011, “Cheating Is in Our DNA,” Charles Orlando distinguishes between two “flavors” of infidelity: the “fling” as in the one-night stand and the affair, which he characterizes as a long-term relationship. More to the point, a long-term relationship that is in competition with yours. [...]

Copyright © 2011 Dirk Sayers A couple weeks ago, I ran across an article on one of the many blogs I crawl from time to time, entitled “5 Signs He’s Not In It for Love,” by Alina Mikos. She offers a cogent feminine perspective that many men would do well to read. But it’s only [...]

Copyright © 2011 Dirk Sayers I’m going to strenuously resist the temptation to shoot the messenger, on this one. Ms. Stephanie Rosenbloom writing for The New York Times online posted an article dated Dec 18, 2010 entitled “New Online-Date Detectives Can Unmask Mr. or Ms. Wrong.” As Ms. Rosenbloom relates, there is a (relatively) new [...]