The 15 Minute Dating Blog

by Annee Mayer-Chapleau.

As a new writer for 15minutedate.com, my last intention is to sound narcissistic. However, I am afraid that impression is unavoidable because today I will not only be speaking for myself, but for Jesus as well. We are currently living in the year 2007, and our society of the United States of America has practically become numb to the most private aspect of a human’s life: sex.

The values that our citizens once so proudly cherished in sitcoms like Leave it to Beaver-education, family, and respect, are now slowly drowning in 50 Cent lyrics, strip clubs, and photo rating sites like hotornot.com. Despite what your beliefs may be, Jesus has been watching from the Holy City in the clouds, and is anticipating the very moment when our Earth has finally reached its breaking point; when we are finally over our heads with sin and injustice.

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by Chris Arnone.

Women can’t say the word “No.” Plain and simple. So what do they do? They use excuses or alibis to tell men they are not interested. Women don’t want to hurt a guys feelings because they know it would kill a guy to hear the truth…”I don’t like you.” While it may appear nice it often leads to guys being misled.

Here is a list of excuses/alibis that women use in order to tell you that they are not interested in you. Girls who like you would never say these things to you. You see whether they fall in love at first sight with a guy, or whether they have the slightest interest/attraction towards a particular guy, they have to go out with them. Period. But when they don’t feel that way - you hear one of the following.

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Ever wonder if your girlfriend is speaking a foreign language? Are you frustrated that every time she ask you a question, somehow you always end up with the wrong answer?

Here’s an article that takes a humorous look at the intricate art of reading your girlfriend’s mind when she asks a question.

Questions From Your Girlfriend That Aren’t Really Questions

It contains some common (perhaps overused) questions such as “How do I look?”, “Do you think she’s pretty?”, as well as some funnier ones like “Don’t our married friends seem happy?”.

Enjoy!

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by Jennifer.

No one ever suspects that what happens to someone they know could possibly happen to them. That’s just the way we coax ourselves. “Never going to happen to me.”, we say. A good friend dies by the hands of a stranger she never met without an electronic wall veiling his true identity. Stalked and beaten to death by a complete stranger. That would never happen to me. I was wiser than to give my information over a medium that promised no security to where the information was trickling into.

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by Colleen O’Brien

I’ve learned that some guys lie on craigslist (and in life) to make themselves look good. (To be fair, so do some women. Since when do “curvy” and “obese” mean the same thing?) I’m not sure why people present themselves falsely when they know they’ll be found out, but I’m quite the opposite. Why lie?

I’ve learned that 5′5″ is the same as 5′10″ around here. If you’re 5′5″, that’s perfectly fine. But why say you’re 5′10″ when I’ll find out soon enough that I can look you straight in the eye without craning my neck? Chances are excellent that that’s the only date we’ll have.

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Are you a sucker for the brainy types? Do you prefer to hit the books instead of bars?

According to this recent article in the in the Washington Post, more and more people are attracted to each other through intellectual events instead of traditional dating. “It is, observers of the trend say, a visceral backlash to life in a Paris Hilton world. It’s a chance to impress a mate, or a potential date, by flexing a body part that has lost ground in recent years to biceps and pecs — the brain.”

According to the article : “Intellidating,” first coined in England in 2002, sprang from “Intelligence Squared,” a live discussion series launched by a couple of British moguls whose professed aim was to make debating “sexy”. Apparently there are also new dating services such as www.intellectconnect.com available to connect people intellectually. Users’ profiles usually include literary, writing, poetry and other intellectual interests.

Is this a new trend? “Over the past two years — but particularly in the past 12 months — dozens of cultural institutions have seized on the demand, offering events that draw the intellidating crowd and help the establishments cultivate younger clienteles.”

Perhaps it’s time to start brushing up your scrabble skills?

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by Sunil Tinani

My whole body tingled as I looked at Amy Lou. She was built like Pamela Anderson, seemed as intelligent as Jodie Foster and looked as if she wanted to party 24/7. That was the good news. The bad news was I was looking at her photograph on a dating site where I was hunting around to make some new female friends aged 40–50, because at that age women understood a lot of things. Plus, I was 45 and any woman below 38 or so would fall in my “juvenile” bracket.

The key elements in her dating dossier read:

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Do you spend hours adjusting your dating profile in online matchmaking sites and browsing through endless profiles? What if you could outsource the task of finding your dream date to a team of people working 24 hours a day around the globe?

Tim Ferriss, a man who lives in San Jose and believes in outsourcing mundane tasks in one’s life, did just that.

After failing at several attempts to find love online and as a social experiment, Tim decided to contract out the work of finding him a date to various outsourcing teams. The teams he hired were located all over the world in India, Jamaica, among other places.

Some problems encountered during the process including one of the team just got too “creative” and decided to impersonate Tim in online conversations. Also, some outsourcing teams just plainly gave up as they couldn’t grasp the concept.

Publicity stunt or not, it seems like the team of contractors did actually deliver around 20 potential dates for Tim to pick from at the end.

Here’s the link to the original article in San Jose Mercury News.

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by Arielle Jacobs

Back in December, I did something I swore to myself I would never do. After the prodding of family, friends and coworkers, I buckled down and joined JDate, the online dating website for Jewish singles. A month and a half later, I cancelled my paying membership. Did I find true love? Had I gone from total non-believer to newest JDate poster girl, complete with gargantuan sized photo of myself and my new love obnoxiously displayed in New York’s Times Square? (If you’ve never seen this horrid billboard of rotating JCouples, you’re not missing out). Oh no, dear friends, quite the opposite.

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by Beth Lilley

When he met me I was a Night Elf Druid and he was a Human Priest, standing outside the ruins of a temple to powerful gods. He was the leader of a group sent to fight the invasion of evil insects onto our world, Azeroth. When approached me and asked if I would join their quest and heal those that were injured during the battle, I readily agreed. This was my chance to show my value as a healer of druidic magic, and an opportunity to loot some plunder from the bug lords we killed…playing World of Warcraft can create interesting dating experiences.

World of Warcraft is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game, or MMORPG. This means that you create a character, enter a game-based universe, and interact with other players around the world. World of Warcraft (WOW) does not have to be for the anti-social, and in some cases you can find an opportunity for dating and romance.

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Based on a sociology research conducted at Ohio State University, a map that describes the romantic and sexual relationships of a high school (Jefferson High) is shown below. The blue dots represents boys and the pink dots represents girls.

“For the first time, sociologists have mapped the romantic and sexual relationships of an entire high school over 18 months, providing evidence that these adolescent networks may be structured differently than researchers previously thought.”.

What’s interesting is that if you pay close attention to the map you can see some blue on blue connections as well as some “isolated” communities as well. There are also 63 faithful couples that didn’t felt like joining the party.

I also wonder what the map will look like for adults, although it might be hard to make the same comparison since adult life usually does not revolve around a tightly related society (like a high school). According to the article : “As a comparison, many adult sexual networks are more like an airline hub system where many points are connected to a small number of hubs…”.

Here’s the link to the original article.

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by Dan Burke

This blog is mainly for guys, hence the picture above that will draw many Maxim readers in. But women are welcome to read this, and might find it interesting, too. Anyway, here’s a question for the guys who are reading this: If you were in a club, and a woman approached you who looked like the one pictured above, what would you do? This question is, of course, assuming that you’re not already seeing someone.

The most logical answer to this question is, unless you were really stupid, your ego would go up 50 points. Not to mention you’d probably be thinking you were drinking the good luck elixir that Harry Potter drank in “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince”. But if you look anything like me in the picture below, this kind of scenario probably doesn’t happen a whole hell of a lot:

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