Online Dating and Love Information Articles

You don’t have to be a movie star look-alike to sizzle and dazzle the opposite sex. All you need is a genuine sweet looking smile plus a few irresistible flirting tips.

1. For women, we preen or groom ourselves subconsciously when we are attracted to someone – by smoothing down our hair or clothes, checking our lipstick, or straightening a tie. Combine your grooming gesture with a smile and a gaze. You can also toss your hair to one side – a combination 1-2 punch of preening and a flash of neck.

2. A genuine, friendly smile is you’re most powerful. Behavior experts agree that a smile makes you more attractive and approachable. Guys, if a woman lock eyes and smiles with you three or more times in an evening, you have been given an unmistakably clear signal that she’s interested. Make your move, if you don’t, somebody else will.

3. Gaze the eyes with the person you’re flirting with for a full five to six seconds, smile and then drop your fix. Do this at least three times in a ten to fifteen-minute period. Your target needs to know you are flirting with him; making eye contact is a universal signal of openness.

4. One of the more successful flirting techniques a woman can employ is to expose her neck. A head tilt, the classic hair flip, or the over-the-shoulder glance attracts men’s attention, exposes your neck, and gives you the opportunity to lock eyes. The over-the-shoulder move is extra-effective because it’s sexy and sends a signal to your target that they are worth a second look.

5. Members of both sexes are subconsciously attracted to red, moist lips because they signal youth, sex and fertility. Red also increases a man’s heart rate. How to capitalize on it? Wearing a red lipstick gives women’s lips not only a youthful color but also a more obvious smile and whiter teeth. Using a super-shiny lip gloss makes your lips look moist and kissable. Men or women should lick their lips subtly (you don’t want to look like you’re trying out for a porno flick) or bite the lower lip – both are extremely effective flirting behaviors.

6. Men should stand tall with the shoulders pulled back and squared; women are biologically attracted to more dominant men. Feel free to take up some space.

7. For women, crossing and uncrossing their legs is a surefire flirting technique, especially if you’re wearing high heels. A woman crossing her legs appears seductive to men and it makes them desire to see more. Slipping the heel out of your shoe and dangling it on your toes is another trick. The arch of a foot sends a sexual message and mimics a woman’s curves, and makes a man’s heart race.

8. Once you and your flirting target start talking, the next step is to intensify the attraction. How? Smile and maintain eye contact, focus all of your attention on what they say. No one is more attractive than someone who gives you an undivided attention. Employ the nod and head tilt techniques. Smiling and laughing are crucial at this point – it the quickly puts the other person at ease. Making low-level contact by brushing the shoulder or elbow is another effective flirting technique.

9. People mirror each other’s body language – gestures, voice volume, posture, etc when they are attracted. Very subtly mirror your flirting target’s behavior – if she leans forward, lean forward; if he scratches his head, scratch your head. When you mirror someone’s behavior, they’ll begin to feel, think and believe as though the two of you are connected.

Men’s flirting styles go a little further, they demonstrate their social status with moves that may include flashing cash, talking about their occupations, cars, and other toys for the big boys aside from the signs mentioned above.

Look for the signs above, especially extended eye contact, low-level touching, laughing, and you will surely know that a woman is flirting with you.

The sex secrets of the Stasi, the old East German secret service, might finally be getting an airing along with details of the relations between the Stasi and West German media figures. The Gauck Authority, the agency overseeing the Stasi files and the tightly controlled release of their contents, has been trying to block publication of a book by Hubertus Knabe, a historian who used to work in its “closed” section. Facing defeat before a Berlin court, where it has claimed that Knabe might have made “improper use of Stasi documents,” the Gauck Authority has now backed off. Knabe can now go ahead, so long as he takes personal legal responsibility for what he publishes, and some of Germany’s best-known journalists are bracing for some embarrassing disclosures. For the public, even more intriguing will be details of the “honey traps” the Stasi used to lure West Germans into embarrassing situations that opened them to Stasi blackmail.

Russia’s version of the state of the union message, to be delivered by President Vladimir Putin on April 3, will signal “a radically liberal course of economic development,” Kremlin sources predict. They say Putin will announce some important privatizations, along with reforms of pensions and the judiciary, and a big shift of defense spending away from the administrative tail to the fighting teeth. The big winner in the Kremlin’s internal battle for Putin’s ear is Economic Development and Trade Minister German Gref, 37. The son of German deportees who were sent to Kazakstan in World War II, Gref was trained as a lawyer, and then got a job in the St. Petersburg government, where he got to know Putin. Gref then ran Putin’s private think-tank, the Center for Strategic Studies, where he drafted the “tough state-free economy” reform plan.

THE SEX secrets of Katarina Witt the poster girl for the kommissars of communist East Germany - are at the centre of a bitter court fight that will be heard next month.

Miss Witt, the Olympic ice skating beauty befriended by the ruling elite of the hardline Soviet satellite, was said to be “overjoyed” at a ruling in favour of former German leader Helmut Kohl.

Mr Kohl, 71, finally convinced a Berlin court that 2,500 pages of tape transcripts gathered by the sinister Stasi secret police during his 16 years in power should not be made accessible to journalists.

The verdict bolstered the case of Miss Witt, who has been fighting her own legal campaign for the last several years to keep her file secret.

Speculation in the German media is that she wants to hide away details of her lovers and intimate history. Stasi spies are known to have hidden cameras in her rooms, taped her conversations and vetted her partners. She is also afraid that some of those closest to her during her years at the top might turn out to have had the dreaded initials IM - unofficial worker, or informer - next to their names. At their height the Stasi had 91,000 informers.

Lawyer Alexander Schmidt said: “The ruling is excellent news for Miss Witt and all other people seeking to keep information stolen by the Stasi from being peddled now. It is tainted, sullied information and it is only right that it is kept hidden away.”

Japanese couples make love in beds shaped like spaceships. Some Italians find mortuaries a turn-on. And almost half the French have been to an orgy. Check out these ideas to give your own sex life some international flavor

Do it anywhere you can!

In JAPAN, entire districts are devoted to “love hotels,” where unmarried couples and illicit lovers go for trysts. For $25 to $80 a night, you might find a bed shaped like a gondola, a spaceship, or a pineapple, and it will likely vibrate or rotate–or both. You also might find a vending machine for sex toys or a small pool with two slides, so you and your lover can whoosh down into each other’s arms.

Strolling the beaches of COLOMBIA at sunset, you’d see couples making love on the sand: “We’re not self-conscious about sex here,” says Juanita, 28, a writer.

In ROMANIA, couples often live with their parents because of a housing shortage. So, when they want privacy, they sometimes resort to a parked car. “Once, my husband and I were caught by a policeman,” reports Irina, 22. “He tried to take me down to the station for booking; he assumed I was a prostitute.”

I have been married for 22 years to a hardworking yet distant man. He is a great father and a wonderful provider He tries very hard to give me everything–everything but intimacy, even on vacation In the past I have had two or three lovers, each lasting many years. My husband was too busy to notice, I have tried very hard to communicate with him about my needs and desires. He jokes, gives me hoops to jump through (promising sex as a reward) or gets annoyed When we do have sex, it is very goad. We went to counseling once and he was better for a time, then slipped into his old ways. What now?

Figure out what your husband does with his own desires. I hope you regularly express appreciation far everything your husband does contribute; failing to do so, or focusing only on what he is not doing, is a sure way to shut off sexual interest. While speaking up for your own needs is essential in any relationship, so is asking a partner what his needs and preferences are. Is it possible that they’re not the conventional ones, and he has chosen to satisfy them elsewhere? Have you ever considered the possibility that your husband is having an affair? Have you ever asked him if he is satisfied with the level of intimacy you now have? It’s hard to be emotionally intimate when two people are hiding something.