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What a Dive: Couple Exchange Vows Underwater [PHOTOS]
By not in system - AOL NewsMany couples have taken the plunge, but few have done it so literally. A giant turtle and many colorful fish witness the waterbound nuptials of aquarists James Oliver and Kathryn O'Connor on Valentine's Day. The couple tied the knot in the Ocean Reef Display at the London Aquarium, while celebrant Daniel Winchester officiated over the ceremony on the other side of the glass. Neither the bride nor the groom wanted a formal wedding, nor apparently did they want human witnesses. ...
Valentine's Day: Love 2.0
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyLove calls, like the wild birds It's another day A spring wind blew My list of things to do away -- "Spring Wind" by singer/songwriter Greg Brown We now know love is little more than a chemical imbalance. (Thanks a lot for the buzzkill, science.) Which explains the crazy behavior observed among those afflicted. People really do fall "madly" in love. Anthropologist Helen Fisher put it this way: There is no human culture on Earth that has been proven not to know the phenomenon of romantic love. Due to ethical concerns, much of what we know about love comes from animals. Researchers found a ...
Twitter: Might as Well Call Valentine's Day 'Lame Hallmark Day'
By Torie Bosch - AOL NewsLove is in the air ... or not. Twitter is filling up with people who think Valentine's Day is just a lame Hallmark holiday. Stephen Colbert sounded the alarm last night. .bbpBox36802330766606340 {background:url(http://a1.twimg.com/profile_background_images/39408843/twitterbkgrnd.jpg) #1A1B1F;padding:20px;} p.bbpTweet{background:#fff;padding:10px 12px 10px 12px;margin:0;min-height:48px;color:#000;font-size:18px !important;line-height:22px;-moz-border-radius:5px;-webkit-border-radius:5px} p.bbpTweet ...
Opinion: For Valentine's, 5 Lessons on Women and Love
By Rabbi Shmuley Boteach - AOL NewsAnother Valentine's Day, another reminder that love for many people today is a foreign concept that exists in movies and romance novels but not in their personal lives. Women especially are becoming disenchanted with love, placing their energies instead into careers. The principal reason: They're convinced that they will not find a man who understands them. Fair enough. Even Sigmund Freud, that most insightful of men, famously said, "The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my 30 years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What ...
Study: Love Is Like Cocaine, Codeine
By David Knowles - AOL News(Oct. 13) -- Over the centuries, countless poets and songwriters have compared the power of romantic love to the transformative effects of any number of therapeutic or recreational drugs. According to a new study, such writerly claims are not the stuff of fiction. In fact, love is akin to a pain killer, like codeine, researchers at Stanford University and the State University of New York at Stony Brook found. "Intense, passionate feelings of love can provide amazingly effective pain relieve, similar to painkillers or such illicit drugs as cocaine," said a press release for the study, which ...
Karen Owen's Duke Sex Thesis and PowerPoint as a Word Cloud
By Carl Franzen - AOL News(Oct. 8) -- Karen Owen, a former Duke University student, has quickly made a name for herself as both a pioneering figure of female sexual empowerment and the latest social-media pariah, all thanks to a mock 40-plus-page "thesis" she drafted for two close friends in which she "scientifically" documented the sexual prowess of 13 male partners and fellow Duke students, referring to them in her report as "subjects" (many of them Duke lacrosse players). Of course, this being the Internet era, Owen's thesis did not stay within her circle of friends: Having been forwarded to the Duke student body, ...
Dueling Toward Divorce: Study Links Couples' Fighting Styles to Breakups
By Katie Drummond - AOL News(Sept. 29) -- Are you a scrapper or a sweet talker? Do you avoid conflict or embrace it? A new, long-term study concludes that how you fight with your mate might offer valuable insight into your risk of divorce. Surge Desk has the run-down: The Data on Differing Dueling Tactics The study, published this week in the Journal of Marriage and Family, is one of the longest and most comprehensive research explorations of marital conflict to date. Using data on 373 couples compiled over 16 years, starting at the first year of marriage, study authors at the University of Michigan evaluated how ...
Where Single Ladies Are Scarce, Men Scramble to Put a Ring on It
By Katie Drummond - AOL News(Sept. 17) -- Men don't need to really, really love it to put a ring on it. They just need to like it well enough and be spurred by nightmares of solitary life in an apartment reeking of cats and desolate loneliness. That's at least the case in selected urban areas, where single women are scarce and have more eligible bachelors to choose from in matters of relationships and wedding vows, according to a study published in the August issue of the Journal Evolutionary Psychology. Daniel Kruger, an evolutionary psychologist, tabulated an "operational sex ratio" for 50 metropolitan areas. In ...
Opinion: My 'Eat, Pray, Love' Year
By not in system - AOL News(Aug. 13) -- Most women I know can't afford to eat in Italy, pray in India and love in Bali. But when I read Elizabeth Gilbert's "Eat, Pray, Love," I knew I had to attempt my own version. I just had to do it on the cheap. In 2008, I was recently divorced and at a major turning point in my writing career, and I had been unraveling for a blurry couple of years, unsure of what I wanted to do or how I wanted to live. Laureen Reed Katrina Kittle's new book is titled "The Blessings of the Animals." I found myself taking stock. How could I turn my divorce into an opportunity instead of a loss? ...
Are Uppity Women Paving the Way for Gay Marriage, or Closing the Door?
By Helena Andrews - Politics Daily"If you don't like gay marriage, blame straight people. They're the ones who keep having gay babies." That's the new virtual bumper sticker slapped onto my mother Frances' Facebook page. Frances, a lesbian, is unmarried for three reasons 1) it ain't legal -- yet; 2) she hasn't found an acceptable "mate"; and 3) because who the heck wants to get married nowadays anyway? I'm considering coming up with a commitment-phobe catch phrase of my own -- "Marriage is as marriage does." In nearly every state save Hawaii (one of the first to question the constitutionality of banning gay marriage in 1993) ...
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