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Ladies: Increase Your Life Expectancy; Get Hitched With A Man Your Age by Steve Amarante

  Marriage is a big decision. It’s often difficult enough finding someone that can complement your life, while balancing the demands of today’s world. For the average woman, the decision to get married is mired with a slew of questions from; will he get along with my family too-- will he understand my shoe fetish. One recent study, however, suggest that women should focus more on age. Years of research indicate that, generally speaking, marriage is more beneficial for men than for women, from a life expectancy perspective.

The Science Of Commitment--Are Men hardwired to cheat?

Ran across this article that attempts to outline why men cheat. More on this in a future post, but in the meantime, if you can spare a few minutes, here's a quick article from the New York Times.

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Steve Amarante

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StreetSpark.com Location Based Mobile Dating Application by Steve Amarante

GPS driven Location base mobile applications are the rave these days. Applications like foursquare, which allow you to share your location and activity in real-time, have been extended to the dating world. UK based www.streetspark.com (coming to the good old USA soon) will allow you to specify what kind of person you are keen on meeting and Street Spark will look for a suitable match in your proximity. These matches are termed “sparks”, and when one such match is found it is up to you and him/her to “ignite” the “spark”. If you do that successfully, you can chat or meet up. If not, you just “extinguish” the “spark” and keep on looking.

I am not 100% sure if this will catch on, but it’s interesting to see the new technology Cupid has at his arsenal beyond the bow and arrow…

 

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Steve Amarante

www.luvjungle.com

Reference site: www.streetspark.com

The De-masculinization Of The American Male: A Bed Time Story By Steve Amarante

Once upon a time, there was a boy.

This boy was infatuated with a girl. He always went the extra mile and tried to do everything possible to garish the girls’ attention, but nothing turned out his way.

He supported her with work and school…and she thought he was being patronizing.  She said he needed to learn how to “communicate” with her… so he “opened” himself up only to be made feel like he was “soft”.

When he allowed himself to be close to her for the first time… she said he had become too dependent.

He ceased from making important decision on his own, involved her in those decisions…and she said he was to too much of a flip flopper.

He held back sexual advances because he didn’t want her to think that sex was the only think he wanted, but in the process, she lost respect for him and insulted his manhood.

He worn his emotions on his sleeve…and she was scared off by his transparency.

And so the boy became confused and frustrated.

He thought that he was suppose to be more sensitive and nicer, and didn’t understand why the girl was acting the way she was.

He decided to take back him manhood…

He made quick and firm decisions…and she accused him of being controlling and manipulative.

He drew emotional boundaries… and she said that he was afraid to be vulnerable.

He vocally affirmed his feelings…and she became intimidated by his “aggressiveness”.

The boy becomes more sexually assertive…and she claims that he only cares about the “sex”

To escape from his confused metal state, the boy buries himself in his work, only to be labeled as an emotionally detached “asshole” that can’t provide for his family or her emotions…

Girl leaves boy…

Gentlemen, your de-masculinization is something has been taking shape for some time now.  Like the boy in the story, you’re not wrong in thinking that whatever your actions, because of how relationships are internalized by both sexes in our society, YOU stand to be blamed for however either party (gender) interprets one particular situation. If you treat her as your equal, she may think it’s not romantic but if you treat her in “traditional” ways, you are considered a chauvinist or a sexist.

Of course, the tragic irony is that it’s those initial masculine qualities that attracted her to you in the first place.

Unfortunately, instead of having a man who’s masculinity she can leverage into an equal partnership (or as close as one could be), both men and women are left with a hyper defensive woman who insists that men be romantic by using the same masculine mechanism of which she is so critical of.

Until there’s honest discussion in which both genders are willing too accept and discuss there roles in the de-masculinization process of today’s male, we will continue to replay the same story with different protagonists (i.e. different couples, marriages or male/female etc) but with the same results: Girl leaves boy…

 

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Steve Amarante

www.luvjungle.com

Make the “Tree Look Taller” by “Removing The Under Brushes”

This YOUTUBE Video by Gillette seems to be making a resurgent since it’s debut last summer. Outside of its pure comedic value, the video clip, and the corporation behind it, signal and leverage something that men often overlook: proper hygiene. Of course, after shaving, applying some fresh balls would hurt!

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Steve Amarante

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Space Aliens, Relationships and Living In the Now by Steve Amarante

In a recent Discovery Channel documentary, astrophysicist Stephen Hawking said that communicating with aliens could be a threat to Earth. The thinking is that, similar to Christopher Columbus' arrival in the Americas and his encounter with the native Americans, a more “advance” group may come out and wipe the natives from existing.

Here’s a hypothetical question: What if said Aliens arrive and make it so that no new woman or man could exist? No new babies, no new animals or new technology. That the only people left behind are those that are living here in the NOW.

How would that change the way you behave with your girlfriend or your wife? The woman you’re courting? Or at the most basic level, how would that change those relationships with your friends, family and yourself?

Of course the basic premise is that if you knew you couldn’t have any new relationships you would probably go the extra mile to support and love the ones you have in the here and now, you may even treasure them…

 

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Steve Amarante

www.luvjungle.com

WinkVid-A New Spin On Old Speed Dating Concept

Beyond the traditional brick and mortar speed dating parties, Winkvid a Chicago based company, has expanded on the old model by creating a site which streams live face-to-face video. The concept is the same; meet 10+ women, only via the web from the comfort of your home through what they call a “WinkUp,”. In essences it’s a one-hour speed-dating event that places you in four-minute video conversations with singles in your area. The event takes place at a specific time — 8 p.m. EST on June 20, for example. Just log in before the event starts and make sure your camera is working, and you’ll get connected with your potential matches. Currently, only in Chicago, this can easily be expanded to other states.

Outside of the efficiency, you and your potential lady friend are assured that you (or she) have not digitally enhanced pictures or exaggerated that facebook profiles—not that you would exaggerate your profile to attract a woman!

 

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Steve Amarante

www.luvjungle.com

 

Reference site: www.winkvid.com

Car Seat Positioning To Maximum Attraction and Kissing by Steve Amarante

In a previous post back in August 2007 I mentioned the importance of picking the right seat at a restaurant in order to maximum attraction and garish a woman’s attention.  The basic premise is that whether at a café, restaurant or lounge the best place for you to sit is facing the flow of people. Ideally you want your back behind a wall. The goal here is to have the least amount of distractions so that she can be completely into you and the conversation.

Brewing TV, Because What’s More Manly Then Making Your Own Beer

Here’s a new site I ran across that is all beer, all the time. I’m not a big beer drinker, but I know some of you guys are and might benefit from learning the mechanics of brewing. http://www.brewingtv.com/

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Arizona’s New Immigration Law, Physical Abusers, and Gold Diggers a Lesson in the Broken Window Theory by Steve Amarante

The Broken Window Theory goes something like this: Consider a building with a few broken windows. If the windows are not repaired, the tendency is for vandals to break a few more windows. Eventually, they may even break into the building, and if it's unoccupied, perhaps become squatters. Or consider a sidewalk. Some litter accumulates. Soon, more litter accumulates. Eventually, people even start leaving bags of trash from take-out restaurants there may even start breaking into cars.

As the theory goes, the key for preventing vandalism is to fix the problems when they are small. Repair the broken windows within a short time, say, a day or a week, and the tendency is that vandals are much less likely to break more windows or do further damage. Clean up the sidewalk every day, and the tendency is for litter not to accumulate (or for the rate of littering to be much less). Problems do not escalate and thus respectable residents do not flee a neighborhood.