Online Dating

eHarmony Owner: Gay Marriage Damaged My Company

eHarmony was the place where straight people could find love (or at least a blow job), until the New Jersey Attorney General ruled that they had to also service homosexuals. But owner Neil Clark Warren isn't happy about that development at all.

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Does Dan Savage Think It's OK To Laugh During Sex?

This week in Savage Love, which you can check out here, Dan answers a couple of questions -- from the existential crisis of a straight woman who wants to see a man in lady panties to condom safety in gay threesomes. It's all interesting stuff, but the story of the woman with the crossdressing-partn ... More >>

Halloumi Cheese: Sweet, Savory, and Pac-Man Shaped

[See More Taste Test: 5 Boozy Sweets Meant to Start a Buzz in New York | Porchetta's Lebanese Chicken Sandwich | Spring Garden: New Contender for Brooklyn's Best Dim Sum] If Halloumi was single and it had an online dating profile, it would probably say, "Hi, I'm a cheese from Cyprus. My friends des ... More >>

The Hideous Lies In Dating Site Profiles: Here's Your Handy Guide

Everyone--I mean everyone--lies on Match.com, OKCupid, Grindr, Manhunt, eHarmony, and every other hookup site/app in tarnation. The profiles read more like romance novels than confessionals, filled with exaggerations, evasions, wishful thinking, and downright doctoring of evidence. With every word ... More >>

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Scientists Determine that People on eHarmony Want to Get Married

​How do you date successfully? Some might say it's only when you stop dating, a/k/a, find someone and settle down, or whatever people do. Others might say that it's as simple as going on a good date, or learning something from the experience, even if it's bad. Free-living caddish types and tho ... More >>

The Best (and Worst) Days for Online Dating in NYC in 2011, According to Data From OkCupid

We were wondering: Could there be truth to the idea that, say, after a natural disaster, or on a long holiday weekend, there might be a stronger inclination to turn to the sex of your choosing and merge, or try to find someone with whom to merge, or at least get some dinner or something? And how did ... More >>

Woman Who Bragged About Using Match.com to Get Guys to Buy Her Dinner Brags Some More

video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo playerRemember Jessica Sporty? She is the enterprising Murray Hill twentysomething written about in November by Business Insider, which first published her name, after which it was picked up by various media outlets (us included); then changed it to ... More >>

Single Lady Brags About Using Match.com to Get Guys to Buy Her Dinner

"Make dinner happen."​I wasn't going to write about this, but it started making me madder and madder, so here I am. Business Insider today writes of a woman named Jessica Sporty, who, at 23, was simply too poor on her $45K salary to take care of her $1,475 a month (ahem -- Murray Hill) apartme ... More >>

n 1 Personals Is Starting to Attract the Inevitable Creeps [Update: The Interns Speak!]

​It happens with any online dating site. Any social network, even. After a while, the filters get less and less stringent and the real creepy dudes start leaking in and next thing you know, you're MySpace. Sad young literary magazine n 1's new personals site, only a few days old, is already at ... More >>

How Is New York Not in the '10 Most Promiscuous Cities' List?

Portland, the most promiscuous city in America. ​Dating site OkCupid, which comes out with interesting sex and dating data every now and then, has dropped some new knowledge on us: a list of the 10 most promiscuous cities in the U.S. The metric is based on how many OkCupid users' profiles sai ... More >>

StreetMatching.Com Is an Online Dating Site for All Those Missed Connections

There's a dating site for this.​It's the year 2011 and there are waaaaay more options for online dating than Match.com. Enterprising people all over the world are creating business plans for their particular dating schemes (HowAboutWeOnlyDate BeautifulPeopleWithDogsWhoKnit), and the latest, wh ... More >>

The People You Date Are the People You Can Date, Science Says

Spoiler: This film has no basis in science.​Good news for people who date people! Generally, the people you want to date are people who might want to date you, people of the same "desirability" and/or "hotness"! Does this, perhaps, seem sort of untrue based on your recent dating history? Well, ... More >>

Michele Bachmann's Husband Gets Honorary Gaydar Award

​As Marcus Bachmann rants against gays while flapping his wrists around, he's been popping up on so many gay sites and gaydar alerts that gaydar.net (a popular dating site) has offered him a lifetime free membership! Bachmann hasn't responded to the generous offer yet, but I'm sure he'll even ... More >>

DateMySchool Expands To 204 More Campuses

​Last November, two Columbia students launched DateMySchool, an online dating service exclusively for college students. Columbia University Business School students Balazs Alexa, 28, and Jean Meyer, 29, came up with the idea for the site when they were discussing the "lack of dateable women" i ... More >>

The East Village Is NYC's Most Popular 'Date Spot'

​HowAboutWe, the online dating site based on what you want to do -- how about we wake up early and blog together? -- has pulled together information from the more than 100,000 dates posted on its site to determine the neighborhoods New Yorkers most frequently pick as date spots (at least, acco ... More >>

New Yorkers Don't Spend Enough On Dates; Reddit Responds

​The dating website WhatsYourPrice recently reported that New York City men spend only $145 on average for a first date. This puts us in 11th place as big spenders, behind D.C., Dallas, Seattle, Toronto, and Denver. While the Post took the story seriously and chastised New Yorkers for being "c ... More >>

You Are More Likely to Get Laid on a Wednesday

​In a very important undertaking, Christian Rudder of OkCupid and Nate Silver met up to talk about various dating -- okay, let's call it what it is -- sex statistics, because everyone loves statistics that help them have sex. OkCupid being OkCupid, they're very good at figuring out these datin ... More >>

'Happy Guys' Are Less Sexually Attractive to Women, Says Science

​According to science -- it's always according to science -- women are significantly less sexually attracted to "happy guys" than they are to men who swagger, brood, or are generally bad news. This is unfortunate, as happy guys seem way more fun to hang out with than swaggering broodsters with ... More >>

New Dating Opportunity For Reclusive Weirdos!

​The world of online dating is full of misleading profiles. It's a huge cliche, really. Remember what happened last week with the OkCupid lonelyhearts 4chan tried to prank? Anyway, if you can't beat 'em, join 'em. A new dating website called "Cloud Girlfriend" casts off any pretense of realism ... More >>

4Chan "Forever Alone" OkCupid Prank Didn't Go Exactly As Planned

​Yesterday, the lonely dudes of 4chan enacted their plan to prank the lonely dudes of OkCupid. The trolls had set up fake OkCupid accounts depicting cute single women, with which they'd attempted to lure "forever alone" guys on the dating site to Times Square, where they would all collectively ... More >>

4chan Pranking Lonely Men on OkCupid, Luring Them to Times Square

​The wild Internet message board 4chan, known for originating almost all memes and spawning the hacker/activist collective Anonymous, is plotting a prank on some unfortunately lonely fellows using OkCupid. The point, if you could call it that, is to create an "involuntary flash mob," in which ... More >>

Twitter Users More Likely to Masturbate, Break Up Sooner

​OkTrends, OkCupid's dating research site, is a font of information about dating habits. Based on data gleaned from the profile information of its 7 million users, the site has told us what white people like, what Julian Assange likes, and given us insight into the mathematics of beauty. Now t ... More >>

There Is an Ayn Rand Dating Site

So, want to get a drink sometime? ​Some people are really, really into Ayn Rand. You've seen them. There are hordes of self-described Objectivists, hacking their way through Atlas Shrugged or The Fountainhead on the subway. Now those people have the Atlasphere, a dating website just for them.

Winklevii Row Out of Court Losers; Zuckerberg Wins Again

​It's a sad day for millionaire identical twin Olympians everywhere: Forbes reports a federal appeals court has ordered Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss to accept their $65 million settlement with Facebook. That means no more suing Mark Zuckerberg. This is the part of the post where we are legally ... More >>

They're Out of the Business: Taking Self-Indulgence to a New Level

How New Yorkers Describe Themselves in Their Online Dating Profiles

The "shy" map.​Ooh, infographics! Dating infographics! According to these enlightening maps by R. Luke DuBois, which appear today on Fast Company's Co.Design blog, America is quite diverse with regard to how we like to describe ourselves on our online dating profiles. In certain places (like W ... More >>

Free Will Astrology: July 14 - 20, 2010