Making the First Move: How European Singles Handle Online Dating

Making the first move is one of the many things that have been affected by online dating.

Where making the first move in the past meant buying a lady a drink in a bar or hitting her up with a corny chat up line, in the online dating world it means writing a well-crafted personal message explaining why you like someone’s profile and why you would like to find out more about them.

We wanted to know how European singles today handle making the first move. We looked at one question from the be2 questionnaire that all European singles registered with be2 have completed.

We compared how certain groups of European singles replied to the following question, on average: Read more

Men Surrounded by Women Live Longer

…or, if you look at it the other way around, men deprived of women’s company die younger! This is the conclusion of a recently published study. Of course it is worth looking at it in more detail to find out what the scientists really discovered. The study, published in Demography magazine, explains the effects of the “sex ratio”.

What is the sex ratio? The sex ratio determine the rate of men to women in a society. The ideal sex ratio (from a biological and demographical perspective) would be 100 men to 100 women or one man for every women. The study is particularly interesting, because the sex ratio is becoming more and more unbalanced, due to the idealisation of men in some cultures.

The study shows that this is not a good thing at all. In addition to the known negative effects in rural areas where many young men can’t find women to have a relationship or start a family with, a negative sex ratio affects the life expectancy of men.

The conclusion is pretty clear. The more an environment lacks women, the higher the risk for men to die younger. Whenever the ratio is balanced at the adolescence, life expectancy rises by 3 months or more. Of course, 3 months aren’t much, but the effect is clear.
And at the end of the day, being surrounded by women is so much nicer for men than living only with other men.

>>>If your environment is suffering from a negative sex ratio, be2 is the perfect place for you to find women! In fact, there are more women than men registered with be2, so what are you waiting for…

Confirmed Bachelor Quote

Only a confirmed bachelor would consider falling into a women’s hands a bad thing…

“Every man’s dream is to be able to sink into the arms of a woman without also falling into her hands.”

- Jerry Lewis

Help! It’s World Cup Time! How NOT to lose your Boyfriend to Football

The ball is rolling on the field, you want to cuddle with your boyfriend, but he is stuck to the TV…

It’s the football World Cup and if there ever is a time to go football-mad, this is it! Even people who usually take no interest in football, become fans for four weeks, so if your boyfriend is a real football fan, he will have time for little else while the World Cup is on.

Here are some ideas to help you make the most out of the football World Cup with your boyfriend:
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Typical Men/Typical Women – Love Quote of the Week

This week, we wrote about a facebook app that makes fun of gender clichees and things people see as typical for men or typical for women. Oscar Wilde was an author who always had a lot to say about the difference between men and women:

“Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.”

- Oscar Wilde

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