Nine out of ten women have sex while not married. Four out of ten women don’t have sex while married.

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

“Système d’attraction” , in “Les métamorphoses du jour,” By J. J. Grandville, Albéric Second, Charles Blanc
In contrast to recent reports about Elliott Spitzer’s self-destruction, womens’ sex habits have been largely ignored. So here’s the news flash: Almost all adult American women have sex, whether married or not. (HT: Docuticker). But, [...]

If men did equal housework employers wouldn’t have this problem.

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

Professor Henry Higgins:
Noted Wonderer of “Why Can’t A Woman Be More Like A Man?”Whereas the More Economically Efficient Question Would Be “Why Can’t A Man Be More Like A Woman?”

Selmi, M.L. (2008). The Work-Family Conflict: An Essay on Employers, Men and Responsibility. University of St. Thomas Law Journal, 1(1), 1-24.
SSRN suggested citation: Selmi, [...]

Failure to enforce domestic violence restraining order may be a human rights violation

Sunday, February 3rd, 2008

Superbowl Sunday has a bad reputation, true or not, for being one of the busiest days for people who practice domestic violence. Domestic violence — and any violence — scars not only the direct victims, but also the witnesses. That would be children watching from the stairs. Or shot in the head by the perpetrator spouse to get even with the target spouse.

E harmony is so wrong on so many levels where do I start

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

I think internet dating can be terrific (read this, though), but the whole thing about personality testing — like human resources personality testing — is just wrong.
 

 

Findings: Hitting It Off, Thanks to Algorithms of Love
By JOHN TIERNEY
NYT Published: January 29, 2008
As online matchmakers compete for customers using algorithms in the search for love, the battle [...]

Superbowl Sunday: Why do men kill their wives?

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

Superbowl Sunday coming up — so I’m focusing on domestic violence. (There is no rigorous study that domestic violence increases after the Superbowl).

“ Suspected, convicted and charged”, graphic from Boston Globe, 07.22.07 ( Keith O’brian, “Why do men kill their wives?”visited 01.28.08)
Domestic violence has always been implicitly given a “diminished capacity” sort of [...]

Reasons why not to marry your cousin

Friday, January 18th, 2008

Scene from “Arrested Development,” episode, “Fakin’ It”, George Michael (Michael Cera, L) and Maeby (Alia Shawkat, R) participate in a mock wedding to entertain Alzheimer’s patients
Human fertility increases the further away your mate’s hometown. Labouriau, Rodrigo, Amorim, Antonio, “Human Fertility Increases With Marital Radius,” Genetics 2008 178: 601-603
Marry a foreigner. A stranger. [...]