Dating & Sex

Last week we talked about the oncoming "cuffing season" and how we would navigate it with the current pandemic. And it seems like this news came just in time: singles who are satisfied with their friendships are less likely to desire a romantic partner! Via PsyPost: After controlling for factors such as age, health, education, …

Well, in the world we live in, any good news is worth a F*CK-YEAH - and here's some: according to NYT, though people are still having sex, STD rates are going down! Via NYT: For the first time in years, rates of chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis, which had been on track in 2020 to hit …

"It's not the size of the prize, it's the motion of the ocean!" That's gotta be the motto for the men and women joining a new dating site created specifically for men with smaller penises and the women who love them. Via DailyMail: The only pre-requisite for men who sign up is that they have …

Sorry to ruin your Wednesday with the worst headline ever - according to VICE, a Chinese-developed sex toy called the "Chastity Cage", which is meant "to allow a trusted partner to remotely lock/unlock the chamber using an app. It would then lock with a metal ring underneath the user’s penis" has the possibility of being …

Have you noticed when at the grocery store or on a walk in a face mask that it's tough to read peoples' emotions when half their faces are obscured? How the heck do you know if someone is cheerily letting you pass in an aisle or annoyed that you're in their space? And beyond that, …

It's been a long held belief that women stop wanting sex as they get older, and one that may have been debunked thanks to new research that followed 3200 women over 15 years. Via CNN: "About a quarter of women rate sex as very important, regardless of their age," said Dr. Holly Thomas, lead author …

They really will make a movie about anything! According to the NY Times, "Love, Guaranteed" is a movie about a lawyer who sues a dating site for promising that their customers will find love. We at OBC, not only do we say "don't promise marriage just to get a date," but we as a company …

via cottonbro @pexels Pandemic, civil unrest, murder hornets - at this point we all probably wake up each day wondering, "what else does 2020 have to dish up?" And it turns out, the icing on this cake full of hornets is a massive surge in broken hearts. Via PR Newswire: [New research suggests] that 2020 …

Or at least that's what a new study seems to suggest - according to recent research, men holding cats in their profile pics are kind of a turn off to women! Via TheNextWeb: In the survey, we presented [women] with photos of one of two young white men in their early 20s either posing alone …