The men at Esquire are worried. They are fearful that we as women are so tempted by Vampires like Edward that we are forgetting about real, heterosexual men. Their cause for concern is serious; they think that the Vampires resemble all the hot, gay men with perfect features and bodies (not excluding beefcakes like Dan Savage) and that we women in our heart of hearts, would prefer to sleep with a gay man or a Vampire over a straight man.

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October 16 is this Friday. Grab a red marker and circle it in your calendar. When you’re at friends’ houses, relatives’ houses, and especially your mother’s house, take it with you, and pen in a big, fat, red circle around the 16. You may even want to write in, “National Mammography Day.”

Like STDs, pregnancy, sexual assault, skin cancer, urinary tract infections and a host of other things that women have come to realize that we simply can’t ignore—or think they won’t affect us in some way or another—breast cancer is not something we can ignore. It’s the second most common cancer in women, and the number one killer of Hispanic women. Statistics show that 1 in 8 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer—which mean that if it isn’t you, it’s likely going to be someone you care about.

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Facebook and RelationshipsI'm off Facebook. I know, I know. It's remarkably hard to conceive of the notion that a decidedly un-hip 30-something could live in this day and age without the benefits of Facebook, but I did it. I, do, however, Twitter, but since I have only four followers, I haven't made quite the splash as Oprah.

I was amazed to read about a recent study by Retrovro quirkily called the "Gadgetry Report" which  found that over a third of the under-35 set has less time for spoonin' and pillow-talk after taking care of the lovely business of sex because they are Tweeting and using Facebook after sex. WTF? Is this really true?


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A lot of people wake up every day and go to a job at an office that, while it isn't very exciting, at least pays the bills. Of course, most of those people have interests that are a lot more intriguing than database management and how to properly program a copy machine. Beneath the thin veneer of every accountant, copywriter or sales rep could be someone who juggles torches, moonlights as a trapeze artist, or even somebody who strives to master the art of the great American pole dance. Such was the case with Seattleite Krisha CatZen, the founder of the Pole for the Soul pole dancing studio.

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The Measuring StickWhile women may prefer men with a little more girth than length  in a man's private region, a study reveals what most of us have long suspected: tall men have an easier time getting women. Not only do they have an easier time getting women, the women they are with tend to be more attractive, taller men tend to have more progeny than their shorter counterparts, and are even less jealous.


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Brazilian Beach Volleyball PlayersLast year, Pole Dancing was touted by some supporters as a possible Olympic sport. This sounds ridiculous, but is it really that different from the way the media portrayed the female beach volleyball players last year in the Beijing Games? Seriously, the women wore extremely skimpy bikinis and were the opening "act" on NBC almost every single night. Since when has beach volleyball been the most important sport at the Olympics? The answer is clear: since the bikinis got tinier. 


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Online Dating

If you are writing a note on an online dating site, do not begin the note with "hi", do use the word "zombie" anywhere in your communication, and do not loudly proclaim your religion.

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German LoverThe results are in. German men are the world's worst lovers.

Why oh why were the poor German men singled out like this? According to this article, the reason is due to a lack of hygiene: the German gents are just "too smelly". And what on earth should the German women do? I would advise any German woman wishing for a better smell during her love-time to invest in some decent soap and perhaps some deoderant for her man. It just might do the trick.


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FootballWhen I was a Jr. High student, I was not a stellar athlete by any means. The only sports I wanted to play in PE were football and soccer. I was allowed to play soccer and did ok, but the then-coach of the Jr. High Football team (a huge responsibility in the town I grew up in), wouldn't allow me to play football. He wasn't barring me from playing football with the guys on the team, but from PE class, which was based on absolutely nothing but my gender.


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