Tag Archives: romance

Author Interview: How Literature Can Help Your Love Life

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When your heart’s been broken, there are fewer better places to run than straight into the pages of a great novel. We asked Maura Kelly, author of Much Ado About Loving: What Our Favorite Novels Can Teach You About Date …

College Kids Say It’s Not Ideal for the Girl to Propose

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We thought gender roles had advanced slightly from the 1950s and ’60s, but it looks like young Americans still think that the guy is the one who ought to get down on bended knee when it comes to marriage proposals. …

Survey: Can Men and Women Be “Just Friends”?

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It’s an age-old question: Is it really possible for heterosexual members of opposite genders to have a truly platonic friendship? (In the movie When Harry Met Sally, Billy Crystal famously said no, “the sex part always gets in the way.”) A new survey from …

Iconic Sailor Kissing Photo Not as Sweet as We Thought

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If you’ve ever assumed that the famous photograph above of a sailor smooching a nurse on V-J day in 1945 was a product of romantic love, well, you’d be wrong. The pair in the pic were total strangers — and …

Britney Spears Tells All About How Her Relationship Began

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How Jason Trawick, 40, and Britney Spears, 30, got together has been a bit of a mystery until now. In the September issue of ELLE (on newsstands on the 18th), the new X Factor judge and her fiancé spilled the …

Survey: Most Workplace Romances Start with an Emoticon

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Could the humble semicolon winky-face be responsible for office hookups across the country? That looks to be the case, according to a poll from dating site WhatsYourPrice.com. Respondents to a survey found that almost 49 percent of women and 59 …

Ethnic Romance Novels Becoming More Popular

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More than ever, romance novels featuring men and women of color are raking in big bucks for publishers and self-publishers, reports an NPR story.

Poll: Women Want More Sex, More Often

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Ladies, would you like more nookie? Yes, yes, yes! A new survey conducted by Yahoo! Shine and Fitness magazine found that 50 percent of women would like to make love more often, and 24 percent, if given an extra hour …

Jessica Alba’s Secret to Post-Baby Romance

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Is something as simple as putting the kids to bed an hour earlier the key to keeping marriage sexy? Jessica Alba, 31, who has two little girls, says a schedule has been crucial for her romantic life with husband Cash …

New List: Top 1,000 Romance Novels of All Time

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Looking to add a steamy romance to your reading list, but not sure which one to pick? Peruse Romancenovels.me’s list of the “Top 1,000 Romance Novels of All Time.” That adds up to a lot of passionate embraces! So which …