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Chiara Atik

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How to Ask Someone Out on Twitter

Favoriting a tweet has suddenly become an entendre — an @ reply the beginning of courtship, a retweet a public declaration of love. Oh, it’s so easy to become smitten with someone’s feed, to feel so sure you could win someone over if only they’d follow you back.

The Complete Guide to Googling Your Date (Or Crush. Or Ex. Or Cute Barista. Or….)

Googling your dates is a bad idea. Very very bad. But you’re going to do it anyway, right? So here’s how to do it like a pro.

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Is It Unreasonable That Hugh Hefner Has Slept With 1,000 Women? We Do the Math

Suppose he slept with an average of 20 women a year over the course of those four decades — a VERY low estimate, given how many women, for instance, Don Draper sleeps with per season of Mad Men. (And Don Draper isn’t nearly as powerful or rich as Hugh Hefner was.)

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Digital Turnoffs: 5 Ways to Blow It Over Email or Text

The following is a list of pet peeves that, while not break-up worthy necessarily, certainly don’t do a lot for a guy upfront.

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A Complete Breakdown of the Sex Scenes in ‘Girls’

The Season 2 finale of Girls aired last night, and given that much of the buzz around the show centers around its gritty, realistic, and, let’s face it, frequent depictions of sex, we figured it would be interesting to tally up the sex scenes.

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5 Ways Your Phone Can Help You Flirt

Phones are a great way to keep someone’s attention (or break the ice) once you’ve already noticed them, not to mention the fact that huddling together to peer over a tiny screen is a sneaky yet efficient way of initiating (accidental?) physical contact.

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New Survey Says the Ideal Age Gap in a Relationship Is…

True compatibility has never been as simple of an issue as biology or social construct — and when it comes to what factors can make a relationship work, age really ain’t nothing but a (meaningless, random) number.

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How To Know When You Should Stop Seeing Someone

How do you know when you should stop seeing someone, and when you should give it just a little bit more of a chance?

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The 5 Worst Things to Say to Someone Who Just Went Through a Break-Up

When comforting friends after a break-up, people reach for platitudes because it’s so hard to figure out what to say.