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Alain De Botton to explore the consolations of pornography

Fri, 18 May 2012 18:24:31 +0100

Alain de Botton has addressed love, happiness and religion. Now he wants to investigate pornography in the belief it can be turned into a moral and noble industry.

Romance: Close up and personal

Thu, 03 May 2012 00:00:01 +0100

Usually David Beckham's busy ogling cheerleaders at LA Lakers games, so it's nice to see him focusing on his wife instead.

Being Modern: Burlesque

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 00:00:01 +0100

Burlesque is all about the tease. It involves a joke, a knowing wink. It's about celebrating the natural female form. It's a theatrical performance, naughty but nice, subversive but saucy...

Online singletons turn to social networks to find love

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 12:23:04 +0100

Social media has revolutionised the way people communicate and now it seems it is also the preferred way for people to find love.

Casanova Ken and the other conquest-counters

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 00:00:01 +0000

Ken Barlow has long been thought by Coronation Street viewers to be a bit of a moralising dullard, but he's never been short of girlfriends. Over the show's 52 years, he has found 28 women prepared to overlook his interest in local history and go to bed with him. His womanising, however, is as nothing compared to the exploits of his real-life alter ego, Bill Roache. According to reports, he's revealed that he's slept with "up to 1,000 women".

Kinky books: Erotic fiction is having a steamy renaissance and its hottest authors are women

Sat, 10 Mar 2012 00:00:01 +0000

My first thought when I embarked on this project was: do women write porn?

29 February: Would you take the leap? Women who proposed to men

Tue, 28 Feb 2012 12:11:48 +0000

As tomorrow’s date, 29 February, strikes fear into the hearts of men in long-term relationships who haven’t yet got down on one knee, we’ve rounded up a gallery of famous ‘leapers’ - women who have proposed to men.

The Rules, Updated: A feminist guide to love in 2012

Sun, 26 Feb 2012 00:00:01 +0000

According to modern legend, it was St Brigid who petitioned St Patrick in the fifth century for the opportunity for women to propose to their partners on the extra day in a leap year. This practice may have persisted for a millennium and a half, but the rest of life has mostly changed. (Though this fact may have escaped the authors of The Rules.) So here are our new rules for romance for a modern, feminist generation.

Experience the weird world of Edwardian-themed football speed-dating

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:26:52 +0000

My fingers were achingly sore and my head was spinning. I still had a sticky label stuck to me that read Lady Audley, and the phrase ‘goal-mate’ was echoing in my ears. There was a stick on moustache stuck to my handbag, and I had spent all night avoiding penalties and red cards. I had been speed dating.

Valentine's Day: The best – and worst – last-minute buys

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:00:01 +0000

The good....

Thai couples face off in Valentine's Day kissing marathon

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 13:46:54 +0000

Lips locked at all times - including for bathroom breaks and meals - is the less than romantic challenge facing Thai couples trying for the kiss to blow away all kisses at a Valentine's Day marathon.

Modern lovers: The 'sexual body warriors' and pioneers transforming 21st-century relationships

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:00:01 +0000

You probably should not ask psychotherapists to divulge what they believe is meant by the term "modern love". The response you get may be enough to set you pining for a Mills & Boon. "Uncertain", "radical", "challenging", and even "nostalgic" are some of the words that will be thrown around. They will talk about the inability to define a notion that is constantly in "flux", but they will also hit the nail on its irritatingly imperfect head. "Modern love has become more complicated," argues the psycho-therapist and bestselling author Susie Orbach, "but it has also become much more interesting."

Why first love never dies

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:00:01 +0000

Few things divide the country like Valentine's Day. For the dewy-eyed romantics, it is the perfect excuse to burn candles and proffer overpriced out-of-season roses in pursuit of, well, something.

Pucker up: The art of kissing

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:00:01 +0000

Judas did it to Jesus, Britney did it to Madonna, Prince Charming did it to Sleeping Beauty. Birds do something like it, bees don't, and Bonobo apes have been observed doing it for 12 minutes straight (they prefer the tongue-sucking method). This Valentine's Day, you might be doing it, too.

The 10 Best Valentine's gifts

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:00:01 +0000

1. Kodak Smile Key Chain

£23.64, play.com

Keep your loved ones with you all day long with this tiny digital picture frame. Plug it into your laptop, transfer up to 100 photographs and, hey presto, you've got a miniature photo gallery.

Molly Parkin: 'Jesus would've slept with everyone in the Sixties'

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:00:01 +0000

Molly Parkin is a painter, writer, and award-winning fashion editor, but she's just as famous for sleeping with 365 men a year, give or take, during the Sixties and Seventies. John Mortimer; George Melly; Louis Armstrong; John Thaw; Bo Didley – her lovers were as varied as she was energetic, though she's been celibate for 20 years. Well, almost. There was a knee-trembler with a surfer in the disabled loo of Las Vegas airport a few years ago: she was 74, he was 23.

Park and ride: Young Italians are reviving the once popular pastime of car sex

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 00:00:01 +0000

It's night-time in Via Manzoni, Naples, it's the mid-Eighties, and if you want to find a parking space, you'll be lucky.