Do Pick Up Lines Work?

According to a study done at the University of Chicago study, there is no such thing as a pick-up line that really works. Apparently, "Hi" is the best opening line there is, followed by a question such as "How do you like the band?" or "So, what brings you here?"
Apparently all those classic pick-up lines don't seem to work quite as well as a simple greeting, a question that engages him or her in conversation followed by an introduction.

If this doesn't work, studies have shown that a hello and introduction just as you are leaving the event where you have spotted the object of desire really works. Try something like "Hi, my name is Rodney, and I just wanted to introduce myself to you." Hand the person your phone number and leave with a promising smile on your face. Even if the person doesn't call you, this creates an invitation for you to talk to her the next time you see her...

For your amusement, I have compiled a list of the corniest and the lamest pick-up lines that have been used so far in human history. In some cases, I have also suggested an appropriate response.

Corny Classics

Why don't you come up and see me sometimes?
Would you like to come upstairs and see my etchings?
I'm here. What are your other two wishes?
Hi, do you want to have my children? If not, can we just practice?
I'm an American Express Lover! Don't go home without me!
Do you believe in love at first sight or should I walk by again?
The only thing your eyes haven't told me is your name.
You with all those curves and me with no brakes!
Did the sun just come out or did you smile at me?
Oh no, I'm choking! I need mouth to mouth, quick!
How do you like your eggs in the morning?
Come here often?
What is a beautiful girl like you doing in a place like this?
Sex is a killer... want to die happy?
Of all the bars in the world I could have walked into, here you are...
I seem to have lost my telephone number, may I borrow yours?
Here's a quarter. Call your mum and tell her you won't be home tonight.
Does God know you've escaped from heaven?
You look like someone I know.
Can I see your tan lines?
I miss my teddy bear. Would you sleep with me?
Do you come here often?
Congratulations! You've been voted "Most Beautiful Girl in This Room" and the grand prize is a night with me!
Wanna get lucky?
Do you know, your hair and my pillow are perfectly color coordinated?
Help the homeless. Take me home with you!
You know what'd look good on you? Me.
I think I could fall madly in bed with you.
Bond. James Bond.

What Is Love?

Throughout the history of mankind, we as a world culture have made love out to be mysterious, complex, difficult, and undefinable. It’s the subject of endless poems and literary works. There is an enormous amount of material available out there about love, a lot of it contradictory.

We’ve been given the impression that to define love is near to impossible. Maybe there’s a fear that if we define it, it would somehow be less powerful...less impactful...less exhilarating. Maybe we like the mystery of it. But is it really that complicated? Perhaps the complications surrounding love come from all “stuff” we add on to this powerful emotion. Lets drop all the baggage surrounding relationships and define what it is we are experiencing in the moment of love.

Basic Components of Love
What do you feel when you love someone? If distilled down to it’s core components, what would those be? Yes, love is an emotion, a feeling, a wanting, and a “being”. We know it feels good, but what specific feelings, wantings, and beings are present when we feel love? Here are the common denominators of love...
Love is Accepting.
Acceptance is labeling someone as "okay" and having no particular desire to change them. Who they are is perfectly fine with you. You pose no condition on whether you will love them or not. This is call unconditional love. When your love IS conditional, the moment they step outside your set of conditions, love evaporates.

Love is Appreciating.
Appreciation is one step beyond acceptance. Its when your focus is on what you like about another. We look at them and feel this sweeping appreciation for who they are, their joy, their insights, their humor, their companionship, etc. When someone says they are "in love" with another, they mean their appreciation is so enormous for this person that it consumes their every thought.

Love is Wanting Another to Feel Good.
We want those we love to be happy, safe, healthy, and fulfilled. We want them to feel good in all ways, physically, mentally and emotionally.

How Do We Express Love?
We don’t always express our love. Love is a feeling and the expression of that feeling is separate. It’s an action. There’s a practical reason we don’t always express our love for another. It’s an issue of TIME. We only have 24 hours in a day (if you make it up that way). If the expression of love was a core ingredient to love, we would have to be stingy with who we loved, because there simply wouldn’t be enough time to demonstrate our love for everyone! If you see the distinction between the feeling and the expression, you can then love endless numbers of people.

Attention
Love expressed is when you give your attention, your time, your focus to someone. Webster defines attention as “the giving of one’s mind to something."
There are many ways in which we give our attention to another. We use our five senses. Our ears to listen. Being completely present with the one who is speaking. Our eyes, watching another, undivided attention. Tasting/smelling? (I’ll let you figure that one out). Touching, giving a hug, holding a hand, a caress, or sexual expression. How you express your love depends on the type of relationship.

Why a New “Appetite-Control” Product May Turn the World of Weight Loss on its Head

The stream of new diet products is seemingly endless. However, take a longer look at most of these so-called new products and you quickly see that most are just recycled ideas, and bad ideas at that.

And today, the Internet only makes it easier for clever marketers to sell any old product and make outrageous claims about its effectiveness and safety.

So it's truly rare to find a diet product that is new, safe and effective. But a California Company has recently launched a new product that may just fit the bill.

Called Sensa, it's actually a food sprinkle that has been clinically proven to convince the brain to stop overeating. It's tasteless and odorless, contains no stimulants and does not directly interact with the digestive system - which means there are no unpleasant side-effects. None of the horror stories associated with "fat-blockers" or stimulant based weight loss systems.

The theory behind the product is simple. It's obvious that we eat too much, but why? It turns out that's the way our brains are programmed. Throughout our evolutionary history, food has been scarce, so in order to ensure survival, humans have been conditioned to eat as much as they can whenever food is available. Unfortunately, when food is abundant and rich in calories, as it is today, the results can be ugly.

Enter Dr. Alan Hirsch, intrepid doctor and scientist whose lifelong specialty has been to understand how our senses, and in particular, smell and taste affect the brain's functioning. Dr. Hirsch noticed that many of his patients who had lost their sense of smell and taste due to illness or accident experienced rapid weight gain. Certain smells and tastes seemed to be acting on the brain to control the appetite.

Dr. Hirsch studied hundreds of compounds and after years of research he developed a set of virtually odorless and tasteless food sprinkles, which he called "Tastants" that had a powerful impact on the body's appetite-control center. Then, in one of the largest studies of a non-prescription weight-loss system, these Tastants were tested for effectiveness as a means of weight loss.

The results were significant. Over a 6 month period, 1,436 women and men sprinkled flavorless "Tastant" crystals on everything they ate, and lost an average of 30.5 pounds - nearly 15% of their total body weight.

Moreover, participants achieved these results without having to follow any special exercise regime or diet.

According to Dr Hirsch, "With Sensa, you can eat all the foods that satisfy your senses and you don't have to deal with any intense food cravings or feelings of starvation. Sensa merely helps you eat less of the foods you love and gain greater satisfaction from smaller portions."

Cheryl Cole moved to private clinic

X Factor judge Cheryl Cole has been taken out of intensive care and transferred to a private clinic.

The 27 year-old was rushed to hospital after contracting malaria following a trip to Tanzania, in Africa.

Her PR, Supersonic, recently Tweeted a message revealing that the star has now left the University College London Hospital (UCLH).

The message read: "Cheryl Cole today came out of intensive care and has left UCLH. She has now been transferred to a private clinic, where she will remain for her recovery."

Cole was being treated at the hospital's tropical diseases centre.

Sexual Abstinence

Safer sex education should not be taught to adolescents as a viable alternative to abstinence, according to Dr. Joe McIlhaney, founder and president of the Medical Institute for Sexual Health in Austin, TX. McIlhaney notes that adolescents and young adults are at the highest risk for contracting sexually transmitted diseases (STD), in part because of their still immature reproductive systems. However, behavior also plays a key role; the age at which a person starts having sex and the number of different partners he or she has are two primary factors in STD infection.

As an example, McIlhaney cites a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention survey that found that nearly 20 percent of students have had at least four sexual partners by the time they reached the 12th grade. Moreover, various studies indicate that the percentage of sexually active teenagers who consistently use condoms is between 5 and 40 percent, and only about half of adolescents report using condoms correctly. Statistics also show that 25 percent of all new HIV infections are in individuals younger than 22, and that 25 percent of sexually active teenagers contract a STD each year.

Although opponents have argued that abstinence education is "unrealistic," McIlhaney asserts that "it is certainly no more unrealistic than expecting teens to achieve ideal condom usage." Furthermore, he adds that while safer sex education can offer only risk reduction, abstinence attempts to eliminate that risk.

SEX GODDESS 101

1. CONNECT WITH YOUR SENSUAL SELF
When it comes to having great sex, knowing what you’re comfortable with in the bedroom is just as important as technique (or being freakishly flexible.) Feeling in charge of your sexuality is a non-negotiable requirement on the quest to mind-blowing sex, so if you’re lacking in the sexual self-confidence department, now is the time to bone up. Dance around your apartment naked, schedule some me-time with a vibrating toy, buy yourself a hot dress – whatever you do, find a fun way to increase your sexual confidence and awareness on your own, so that you’re better able to rock your man’s world later on.

2. WARM IT UP
Foreplay is to sex what stretching is to a workout; you have to prep your body for what’s to come. Some men may want to fast forward to the main event, so you must be firm on this and not allow them to skip the pre-show. Kissing, groping, biting, and stroking are all excellent go-to moves; however, nothing is more beneficial to amazing, orgasmic sex than a sensual, tantric massage. Not only do massages feel good, but, as an added bonus, they warm up your skin and connect you with your partner. So put on some sexy music, light a soy candle, and take turns massaging each other, head to toe.

3. TRY EVERYTHING ONCE
If you’re in a relationship, what was once great sex can become stale if you’re not careful. You may ask yourself ‘what happened?’ or feel like the spark has dimmed, but in reality, you just need to change things up. There is nothing more exhilarating than the unexpected, so experimenting with different positions or introducing a toy might be all that is needed to put the “oh yes!” back into your lovemaking. For inspiration, flip through a book with your partner, such as The Position Sex Bible or The Position of the Day Playbook. The Kama Sutra is also a classic.

4. THE BIG O
For most women, exhilarating sex means stronger, more frequent orgasms. While you can’t climax at will, there are ways to increase the probability of an orgasm. Start with strengthening your PC muscles with sexercises, relax as much as possible, and of course, practice a lot!

Lastly, it’s important to remember that great sex isn’t about having perfect technique or rock solid abs, instead, the best sex of your life will happen when you are completely in the moment, ferocious with lust, and having fun.

Jenna Dewan Turns Into Sexy Snake in PETA's New Ad

Jenna Dewan has posed fully naked underneath a slick of snakeskin body paint. The 29-year-old actress stripped off for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)'s new ad campaign against the use of accessories made from snakes, lizards, alligators and crocodiles.

In "Wearing Exotic Skins Kills" ad, Jenna has her body covered in the snakelike body paint as she posed in an artificial forest. "I couldn't believe that that is what happens for a wallet or a purse!," Jenna said during an interview with PETA.

PETA, in the meantime, explained that snakes, lizards, alligators, crocodiles and other reptiles "are tossed aside and struggle and writhe in pain for hours or even days until they die" just so people could make wallets, belts, and other accessories from their bodies.

Beside Jenna Dewan, other stars who have posed in their birthday suit for the animal rights group include Eva Mendes, Khloe Kardashian, Gisele Bundchen, Alicia Silverstone, Holly Madison and Paris Hilton.

How to Propose a Girl

As the popular notion goes, men are definitely from Mars (the passionate planet), so are the Women from Venus, the love planet. A nature's most wonderful creatio

n, a girl loves unconditionally and her love is forever. She can love like there is no tomorrow and hate like you wish you would die. As solid and patient as earth, she can be a protector, a healer a creator and a destroyer. Proposing a girl can certainly be a bit tricky but not impossible. S

o guys if you are sailing in the confused boat unaware of the way to propose a girl, look out at the following tips to get

ideas on how to propose her and be hers forever. We wish you all the best!
Proposing a Girl

• Do a little homework. Get to know your girl well, before you pop the question. Get to know her interests, her dislikes, and her general nature that will help you plan your proposal in a better way. If she is shy and an introvert, propose when you two are alone. If she is sporty and loves adventure, then take her for rock climbing and propose when you reach at the top.
• The age old way of going down on knees in public is still the best way to propose a girl. Don’t try this idea with a shy and introvert girl as she might find it difficult to reciprocate as it could be embarrassing.
• Words matter a lot to girls if said genuinely or else they can easily figure out the topping of gloss you have added and will be unaffected. If you can write well, write a poem for her and record it in a CD. Play it while you are together and see her melting.
• All girls love flowers. So get a huge bouquet of roses and tell her how much you love her and how much she means to you. Tell her you would like to spend the rest of your life with her or alone. Be ready to be smothered by a genuinely happy woman's hug!
• Gestures have a great role to play in proposing a girl as they take a quick notice of it. Show your gentle, protective and emotional dependence nature while you are around her and mean it too. Girls fall for guys with these qualities and there will be no ground for rejection when you will propose her.
• Appreciate her for what she is. Tell her "you look beautiful" when she does not have any make up on. Tell her she looks amazing when she is having a bad day and mean it. She will love you for it and will readily agree when you propose. Just don't overdo it, as it will look fake.
• Girls love to be pampered so when you intend to propose, make sure you are chivalrous enough to make her feel special and at the same time not look vulnerable. Women want a strong man, not a wimp.
• You can even propose the girl at a place where you first met or a place you have fond memories of as these places have an association attached to it that will give less chance to her for refusal.
• Don't force her to say yes. The worst you can do is to push her around and threaten her dignity. Tell her to take her time and that you shall wait. Be a gentleman and respect her. Incase she doesn't want a relationship; she will let you know of it then and there.