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The Trickle-Down Theory of Romance

From time to time when I get bored, I’ll browse through Wikipedia reviewing different topics that happen to pop into my mind (and seeing where the cross-links take me). And today was one of those days.

One particular topic that had always intrigued me was “Trickle-Down Economics”, as it seems so illogical on the face of it … and it seems to work equally dismally in practice.

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Women Having Sex on the First Date (Part Three)

Two weeks ago, I mentioned having run across an article on the Daily Record (a UK publication) website which was titled “More women having sex on first date … but they won’t admit it to their friends”. It was written by Craig McQueen and was dated March 19, 2010.

In my comments the last couple of weeks, I talked about the rationales behind women frequently not being entirely honest about the amount of their sexual behavior (and the speed with which they “gave it up”) when these topics come up in their discussions with their female friends. Typically, they’ll understate both factors by a substantial margin.

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Women Having Sex on the First Date (Part Two)

Last week, I mentioned having run across an article on the Daily Record (a UK publication) website which was titled “More women having sex on first date … but they won’t admit it to their friends”. It was written by Craig McQueen and was dated March 19, 2010.

In my comments last week, I explained one of the reasons why women will understate the amount of their sexual behavior (and the speed with which they “gave it up”) when these topics come up in their discussions with their female friends.

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Women Having Sex on the First Date (Part One)

I ran across an article on the Daily Record (a UK publication) website which was titled “ More women having sex on first date … but they won’t admit it to their friends”. It was written by Craig McQueen and was dated March 19, 2010.

The topic under discussion is the results of a survey on sexual behavior involving 1000 women between the ages of 20 and 40 (commissioned by Bayer Healthcare, this being the 50th anniversary of the oral contraceptive pill). And they focused in particular on how quickly women had sex (first date? second date? third date?), on the number of partners and on the women’s candor or embarrassment in discussing such behavior with others.

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The Practice of Wife Selling

From time to time I’ll spot an item on the Wikipedia website that intrigues me, and that was the case when I logged on today.

I had thought I had seen just about everything, but I was wrong.

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Women-Only Busses? And Men-Only Flights?

This must be a coincidence (after having written last week about All Nippon Airways designating one of the lavatories on each international flight as being “women only”). I was watching NGK World (which is a Japanese TV net work that also broadcasts in other countries) yesterday and they showed a short “filler” story on long-distance busses in Japan, which for reasons of price and convenience have become very popular with the traveling public.

And wouldn’t you know it? That’s right, the latest marketing gimmick is to offer “women only” busses on some of the main routes. There are of course no “men only” busses to compensate, though … the discrimination runs in one direction only.

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