| British Dating Site Focuses on Sexless Relationships
For anyone looking for sex, the Internet is often the first stop, with its array of dating sites and chat rooms devoted to the subject. It is probably the last place that those seeking a celibate relationship would consider looking. However, an online dating agency has been launched for those seeking intimacy without intercourse. Platonicpartners.co.uk says that it will help the silent minority of adults seeking "celibate, platonic, non-physical or partly physical relationships" and help them to find a mate. - Click here for FOXNews.com's Personal Technology Center. The site was founded by Susie King, a former life coach, who was moved to set up the forum after a close friend attempted suicide because of his sexual impotence.
'You scope 'em out'
Women also are going online to find moms who match their personality and interests, much like singles use an online dating service. "You scope 'em out," says Magalie Belanger, 31, about prospective mommy-friends in Helena. "You see how they deal with their children, and with yours." It's like dating, but the dates are with other moms and their children. While the kids play, hopefully without tantrums or biting, the moms are free to talk about the things they have in common, from the lofty subjects of religion and politics to the more practical topics of teething and diaper rash. "Women, they want someone else who is going through the same thing," says Drury Sherrod, a Los Angeles social psychologist who studies friendship. Often, that can mean seeking out other women in the same trimester of pregnancy or whose children are similar in age, he says.
Love-15, love-30. . . Mark Philippoussis loves them all
Slowly but surely, Mark Philippoussis, the former tennis star from Australia, closes in on the grand-slam that so painfully eluded him as a player. Will it be Amanda, a 25-year-old pompom shaker from Nashville, or will the man we knew as "Scud" plump for 48-year-old Jen as his perfect doubles partner? Welcome to Age of Love, shown on American television over the summer but now receiving UK exposure, on E4. Think Mr Right, in which a team of romance and publicity-hungry women competed for the heart of an eligible bachelor. Except, in that case, the bachelor in question copped off with Ulrika Jonsson, the presenter. No chance of that here. The authorities had to act after that embarrassment, which threatened to bring the entire reality love-quest genre into contempt, and Age of Love, one notes, is carefully presented by a man, in whom Scud has shown no interest so far.
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