Well, this seems a bit unfair.
A new study published in the Journal of Sex Research has found that not only are non-virgins unwilling to date adult virgins, but adult virgins are, too.
Meaning adult virgins don’t want to date other adult virgins. Whaaaa?
Researchers asked nearly 5,000 people aged 18 to 76 if they would be open to dating a virgin. The majority of people in the study who’d had sex (AKA the non-virgins) said they wouldn’t want to date a virgin. Which we kind of expected.
How do you express the power of love? Some people write poems. Some write songs. Tokyo based artist Photographer Hal vacuum-packs couples together.
He’s been doing it for a while. His latest collection of vacuum-packed lovers, called ‘Flesh Love Returns’ sees them wrapped in air-tight cocoons in their favourite spots.
‘Men and women are attracted to each other, and try to become one. This fundamental desire carries an energy that affects all matter in the world,’ Hal muses.
‘Possibly we were originally one. Since I believe this, I intend to visualize this power of love by adhering and… Read the full story
So you’ve trailed through Spare Room or Gumtree and even a few dodgy Facebook groups and you’ve got your viewings lined up.
Not only do you have to plan a strategic trek across London, but you have to make a good impression while also sussing out the existing housemates with good questions that will give you a good insight into life with them but, equally, won’t scare them off.
1. Did you all know each other originally?
Elbowing your way into a group of friends who have known each other for years is a daunting prospect, but living with a group of strangers who may not be so committed to each other could mean… Read the full story
You’ve wanted a cat for years. Scratch that. You’ve needed a cat for years.
But something’s been holding you back. Maybe it’s your rubbish housemates, who aren’t down with the cat plan. Maybe it’s the fear that you won’t have enough time to shower your cat with the love it deserves.
Well, we’re here to say it’s time.
It’s time to give in and make yourself happy. You’re ready. You know you are.
These are the signs it’s definitely, 100% time to bloody well hurry up and get a cat.
This may be down to the fact that you follow… Read the full story
Plagued by the curse of resting bitch face? We feel you.
Don’t feel too rubbish about your permanently grumpy face, though. Turns out it has a hidden power. You’re basically a superhero. A superhero named SUPERBITCH.
A new study by Ohio State University has found that resting bitch face is one of the few expressions that can surpass cultural barriers.
In other words, your resting bitch face is a universal language (H/T Marie Claire).
Researchers took frame by frame images of students speaking when they disagreed with something.
From this, they were able to generate a general disagreeing face – which they dubbed… Read the full story
The smokey eye has taken the makeup world by storm, and a classic one suits everybody.
It might look complicated, but it’s actually a fairly easy look to achieve.
It’s about putting different shades of eyeshadow on different parts of your eye, then blending like nobody’s business.
Finally, add in some smudged liner and you’re there.
These are the 5 makeup products you need for the perfect smokey eye.
NYX High Definition Eye Shadow Base
As this look is mainly all about the shadow, you want those colours to be as strong as possible.
Using an eyeshadow primer will smooth out the surface of your lids… Read the full story
When an elderly man approaches a used car dealership, it’s not often you’d expect him to be carrying a skateboard.
But that’s what happened… and it just so happened, entirely by coincidence, to have a man who worked in social media there to take a photo. What a coincidence.
The car dealership was advertising that ‘anything with four wheels can be part-exchanged’ and a salesman had joked with the customer that he should bring a skateboard in to the shop in order to grab a deal, as he didn’t use it anymore.
So Enoch Ernest Edwards, who just happened to be one of the oldest customers at… Read the full story
A new book is hoping to make you see the past in a whole new light.
The Paper Time Machine is a groundbreaking collection of 130 historical photographs, showing some of the world’s most famous landmarks under construction or renovation, which have been painstakingly rendered in full technicolour for the first time.
The images, which are placed next to the original monochrome photos, were created as part of a collaboration between the Retronaut website founder Wolfgang Wild and Jordan Lloyd of Dynamichrome.
If you’re the type of person to worry about safe sex more than the actual hook-up (and to be honest, both should go together), then you’ll be happy to know that you can now actually match with sexually transmitted infections themselves on Tinder.
And no, we don’t believe you’ll actually be over the moon about coming into virtual contact with these STIs, no. But it does give you a little shock before you’re given the shock of antibiotics (or worse).
Aaron Tyler, an artist who is currently working under the campaign HERO, has designed a series of… Read the full story
Emma Later has shed an amazing ten stone after being too ashamed to walk down the aisle as a 22-stone bride.
Having been proposed to by her partner David back in 2009, Emma couldn’t bear the thought of having to wear a size 24 dress, and so had been putting off her dream wedding for years.
Gorging on a high calorie diet of takeaways and fried snacks, it wasn’t until she was fat-shamed in a photo of herself at a party, that she decided to do something about her unhealthy lifestyle.
Emma, who’s now 34 years old, said: ‘I used to have a very high calorie diet. I really liked things like… Read the full story
Having a miscarriage is an emotional, often silent experience. It’s traumatic. It’s not something we talk about often.
Photographer Dianne Yudelson wants to bring that trauma into the light.
In her photo series, ‘Lost’, Dianne documents the 11 miscarriages she has had over the course of several years, sharing the mementos she kept for each loss.
‘With each loss of 11 babies, I kept mementos,’ Dianne writes on her website.
‘They are all pristinely stored in a white box in my closet, as are the memories… Read the full story
Most of us know that dogs don’t really like being left alone.
They enjoy our time and attention, and so when the whole family goes out without them, it’s understandable that they may get a little upset.
But not so upset that it calls for a renovation of the whole house, surely?
Well, that’s how it seems to look for this family, whose dog certainly was not happy to be left alone for a whole three hours.
Sometimes good people can do terrible, terrible things. And we are reminded of just how dark this world has become.
Yesterday, April 5, 2016, the world was shaken to its very core. Nascar driver Dale Earnhardt Jr shared a photo of what he described as his ‘favourite sandwich’.
Dale Earnhardt Jr’s favourite sandwich is a travesty. It is a crime against sandwiches everywhere. It has angered the internet. It has angered us. It has disappointed the higher powers of sandwich making.
Dale Earnhardt Jr’s favourite sandwich consists of two slices of bread, bananas (sliced LENGTHWAYS), and mayonnaise.
Twenty-six-year-old Edward Mjelde from San Diego has been ‘quasi-secretly’ living out of the back of his SUV and holding down a full-time executive sales job for over a year.
Yesterday, he took to Imgur to show others how they could do it too (if you’re into that sort of thing).
‘All of my belongings fit and are easily accessible in the trunk of my 2014 Ford Escape. I do not store anything on my passenger seats or in the floor space of my vehicle. I store house keeping items and hygiene products discreetly in the side door storage pockets and extra shoes under my front… Read the full story
If you’re coming to London for the first time, you’ve probably done your research. You’ve decided which landmarks you want to visit, you’ve got a copy of the Tube map and you’ve read up on all the ways to avoid pick-pockets (basically – don’t wander around with your bag wide open).
But if you want real tips for getting by in London, you’ll need advice from a born-and-raised Londoner. That’s where we can help you.
1. Buy an Oyster Card
If you have a contactless debit card, use that on the Tube.… Read the full story
The reason you’re struggling to orgasm? It goes deeper than you think (innuendo intended).
New research from scientists from the Mayo Clinic and the Indiana University School of Medicine has found that finding it difficult to climax isn’t just a mental thing: it comes down to two key factors.
For men, difficulty having an orgasm is largely due to an issue with the nervous system.
One of the study’s researchers, Dr Siegel, told the Daily Mail that a man’s orgasms depend on the sympathetic nervous system, which controls the body’s ‘fight or flight’ response.
Getting young children to eat a meal can be a long and frustrating process. Even when you finally get them to sit at the table, chances are that most of the food will end up on the floor or in the bin.
If dinnertime is a challenge in your house then you may recognise some of these stages:
1. Play it cool
You have got them to sit at the table. You act casual. You do not want them to sense your fear.
‘Oh, I can’t wait to eat this lovely dinner. This is fun isn’t it kids! Eating a meal!’
2. Asking politely
You always try it. It rarely works.
‘Can you eat your dinner up, please?’
Here’s a sobering thought. If you were a teen in the 80s, the 1950s were ancient history – but they were no further from from you than the 80s are to the teens of today.
Things that we took for granted sound absolutely crazy today. Here are 21 things your kids won’t believe about the 80s.
1. You had to type in computer games
It took days, and then the bloody things didn’t work.
2. You had to look stuff up in books
There was no Wikipedia to tell you that no, Bob Holness didn’t play the sax in Baker Street. So we believed all kinds of bullshit.
3. People wanted to ban pretty much everything
Mary Whitehouse could find filth in the most innocuous programmes, terrible horror films became public enemies thanks to over-excited tabloids and faintly rude songs about shagging became national scandals.
4. There wasn’t any internet
It existed, but… Read the full story
On April 2, reporter Hilde Kate Lysiak was the first to break a story about a major tragedy in Selingrove, Pennsylvania, for online news site Orange Street News.
After hearing about the suspected murder of a local woman at the weekend, Hilde rushed to the scene to cover the story. She later reported that a man was suspected of murdering his wife with a hammer, with a police officer quoted as saying ‘this is an ongoing investigation’.
She also included several statements from the couple’s neighbours.
Freakshakes are dead. They were dead the moment every brand in the world tried to hop on the trend, making sickly sweet milkshakes with giant slabs of cake propped on top.
They were impossible to eat. They induced only sugar headaches, tummy pain, and regret.
Freakshakes were created only for Instagrammable purposes, and now they are done.
From their ashes rise ‘Square Shakes’. Dreamed up by fast food brand Sonic Drive-in, these are milkshakes served in cuboid glasses.
But not just any milkshakes. Slightly deconstructed, fancy milkshakes. F*ck your perfectly blended strawberry shake.
You’re being given a milkshake with a big slice of strawberry… Read the full story
