Watching two people flirt is kind of like watching a car wreck. There’s all the discomfort, the unmistakable fear and the inability, for the life of you, to look away. But that’s until you learn the tricks of the trade, according to dating (and sex) expert Tracey Cox. Review by Faraaz Mahomed… ‘Superflirt’ is one…
Why do we have sex? One of the main biological reasons, contends Ridley, is to combat disease. By constantly combining and recombining genes every generation, people “keep their genes one step ahead of their parasites,” thereby strengthening resistance to bacteria and viruses that cause deadly diseases or epidemics. – Constance Rinaldo, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H….
For those already familiar with the ‘for Dummies’ books, this instalment will come as a rather comfortable guide to yet another of life’s great trials: dating. In this case, of the Internet variety. No matter for those who don’t, though. The book is a comprehensive, easy-to-understand introduction to a foreign and, no doubt, terrifying new…
A self-help book with a simple set of dos and don’ts, which leads you to where you want to be… The question is, are these rules simple? The authors of ‘The Rules’ have compiled a list of 35 Rules to help commit you to a healthy relationship. My first thought was how stringent this book…
It should come as no surprise that the subject of this book is, of course, love. More specifically, Alberoni deals with those all-too-brief and utterly captivating moments when one first falls in love. He attempts to unlock all the rather bizarre and, sometimes, completely diotic forces that drive our behaviour in this frenzied state. For…