The Expendables

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By Safer in the City Columnist Jessica Walker
I am a HUGE action hero fan, so you can guess I was super stoked to hear about the movie The Expendables that hit theaters this weekend.  I grew up watching Sylvester Stallone in Rambo and Rocky, Arnold in The Terminator and Conan the Barbarian – which I [...]

Hindsight What You Need to Know Before You Drop Your Drawers

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Your heart’s racing. The chemistry’s off the charts. What if you could find out that Prince Charming’s not really that charming-before you sleep with him? What if you could feel strong and confident about your next relationship, knowing that you’re doing what’s right for you?
Through compassionate stories of six-well-intentioned women who endured years of selfishness, [...]

Top Foods to Put You in the Mood

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By Mehmet C. Oz, MD, and Michael F. Roizen, MD
Just about every food you can think of has made the aphrodisiac hit list at one time or another—and most of it is bosh. But not quite, says Elizabeth Somer, R.D., author of Age-Proof Your Body. Although there’s no proof that any food will consistently boost [...]

Successful skating pairs reveal what makes their on-ice relationship work

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BY NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Boy meets girl. Boy picks up girl. Boy tries to not drop girl on her head.
This is the world of pairs figure skating and ice dancing, the beautiful sports where a woman and man skate in unison across the ice.
But how do these skaters meet? How do they stay together? And [...]

Calm down: It’s V-Day, not D-Day

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By Russell Salzman
It has been the bane of every man’s existence for the better part of recorded history, and has caused distress and heavy drinking for single people for nearly as long. It is the inevitable topic of a column devoted to sex and relationships, published in mid-February. Its name is Valentine’s Day, and you [...]

Great Sex retreat hopes to goose long-term relationships

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By: Living it Up / Carolin Vesely

Remember when your relationship was fresh and exciting and you and your beloved couldn’t keep your hands off each other? Just seeing him or her was enough to set your heart aflutter and give you butterflies in the pit of your stomach.
Ottawa sex therapist Sue McGarvie calls that feeling [...]

Valentine’s Day Horror Stories

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Read on as these women recall the times when Cupid’s arrow pointed straight toward disaster.
By Ashley Womble

Dream Date Disaster
A new guy surprised me by planning the perfect Valentine’s Day date: a romantic dinner followed by fireworks show on the beach. Everything was great until the check arrived. He asked me, “Should we split it or [...]

Five Ways to Make Yourself Approachable

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Ladies of the world, please realize that it takes a lot of guts to approach you. No guy wants to come across as a creepy lothario, so use one of these five gestures to let guys know you’re open to some flirtation.
By Married Jake
The great tragedy of the dating world is that the large population [...]

‘It was just a soul mate in every sense of the word’

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By Ellen McCarthy
The year she turned 30, Rebecca Bloch started dating a nice man. The type who did the right things and was ready to commit, talking of marriage after just a few months together.
The recent law school grad had spent the previous decade in a string of failed relationships. With every new guy she [...]

What it feels like to rediscover sex in your fifties

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By Susan Seligson
Why should your sex life dry up when you reach middle age? Susan Seligson says hers just keeps on getting better

I came of age sexually at the start of the 1970s. These were the sexual salad days of a generation, in that rose-coloured window between the appearance of the pill and the onslaught [...]

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