Salon reports that the rumor buzzing around Oscar parties in Hollywood this weekend was that Hugh Hefner, 80, is planning to marry girlfriend Holly Madison, 27, sometime this year. It would be Hefner's third marriage.

This is the lucky lady:


So, you old geesers reading this, don't sell yourselves short. You could get them youn' ones too. All you need is many millions and a harem of Playboy playmates to pick from.

Peace of cake!

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Hey, it doesn't hurt to get all the help you can get.

This story shows, with pictures, 13 ways to spice up your sex life. And they're not all just for men either.

Some are pretty obvious, such as getting exercise and using Viagra. But others are not discussed as often: gene therapy, Testosterone Gel, A Nose Spray (no, that's not a mistake... nose spray), Pumps (for you, ladies) and a few more. With each picture there's a comment indicating if the item has been scientifically proved to work or not.

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If you're a busy and rich men looking for a fine looking woman, listen up:

Janis Spindel is a high-end matchmaker for rich, powerful men, and she trolls upscale department stores looking for the women of their dreams. She doesn't run a dating service or engage in any casual pairings. Instead she works on behalf of men who pay massive sums of money — $25,000 to $100,000 per pairing — to find a wife. For each of her clients she conducts interviews, a home visit, a faux date and psychological exams to learn if they're safe, serious and ready for a wife. Then she goes out and shops the world to find the ideal mate.

"Guess what? Hiring a matchmaker is not taking away from falling in love naturally," a very confident Spindel explains. "It's doing the editing and bringing you on a silver platter three wonderful women that you're going to marry one of them."

By her own count, Spindel is responsible for more than 750 marriages and more than a thousand committed relationships. She says anyone who wants to be married, can be. To those who think "all the good ones are taken," she shouts, "wrong!"

Um... if I had that kind of money, this sounds like a good idea. Come on, it is! It beats lurking the Sugardaddies website.

Labels: dating, man, matchmaker, rich, sugardaddy

This article about romantic love is well-worth reading in it's entirety. Here's a summary of some choice quotes:

Dopamine. God's little neurotransmitter. Better known by its street name, romantic love. Also, norepinephrine. Street name, infatuation.

These chemicals are natural stimulants. You fall in love, a growing amount of research shows, and these chemicals and their cousins start pole-dancing around the neurons of your brain...

"Love is a drug," says Helen Fisher, an anthropologist at Rutgers University and author of "Why We Love: The Nature and Chemistry of Romantic Love." "The ventral tegmental area is a clump of cells that make dopamine, a natural stimulant, and sends it out to many brain regions" when one is in love. "It's the same region affected when you feel the rush of cocaine."...

Passion! Sex! Narcotics!

Why do we suspect this isn't going to end well?

Because these things are hard-wired not to last, all of them. Short shelf lives. The passion you fulfill is the passion you kill. The most wonderful, soaring feeling known to all mankind . . . amounts to no more than a narcotic high, a temporal state of mania.

Oliver Sacks, the famed neurologist and author, once cited the case of a 90-year-old woman who had suddenly become radiant, flirty, even frisky. The diagnosis: a long-delayed onset of neurosyphilis had loosed the reins on her inhibitions. She did not want to be treated.

Damn, maybe there is something to those arranged marriages.

Scientists continue to confirm what we, at many levels, already know, namely that love is a drug, that love sucks, that love blinds us. The thing is, most of us, like the 90-year-old lady in the article, don't want to be treated.

Labels: dopamine, love, romance, romantic love