Take Ivy - Don't Date Ivy

Another amusing post from Dealbreaker.com
about a dating site that connects Harvard  B School boys with non Harvard babes
Have Women Pay To Worship Your Harvard Business School Educated Ass
The new dating site matches males who have Harvard MBAs with discerning females who do not. The best part, if you’re a cheap bastard and/or really taken by yourself, is that all the men have to do is sign up, free of charge, and the chicks have to pay for the honor of possibly dating you.

Dealbreaker's sister site Above The Law had this post about DateHarvardSQ
Date Harvard Men Without Streetwalking Down Mass Ave
You know the old joke: How many Harvard men does it take to screw in a light bulb? Just one; he holds the bulb in place while the world revolves around him.

Now there’s a dating site dedicated to bringing the Crimson and their sycophants together. As they say in Wicked, “they deserve each other.”
Some of them think that just by dint of having gone to Harvard, people will love them, respect them, and shower them with jobs and money. They even make up special phrases for mentioning where they go/went to school, like “dropping the H-Bomb.”  Good God, get over yourselves.

As Bess pointed out, the beauty of the site is that women have to pay — and, one would hope, engage in some sort of oil-enhanced wrestling match — for the opportunity to even send an email to Harvard guys. That’s right, throughout mammalian evolution, the males have battled for the right to access females; but I guess once you go to Harvard, you can tell Darwin to suck on your prestige.

The BHB take on all this
Leave the effete Harvard boys to their sycophants and stick with Stanford men!

Judgement Day

From the Telegraph
Why men will judge a woman in milliseconds
Men take a fraction of a second to decide if they are attracted to a woman or not - but they should not be called shallow because they are genetically programmed to do so, scientist say.
Men weigh up potential partners almost instantaneously based on their appearance because their "ancient" genetic preference for attractive mates leads them to, experts claim.
In contrast women take longer to decide their feelings for a man because they need to weigh up whether he will be a committed partner who will provide for them well – part of their survival programming.
And they needed experts and a study to find this out?

The most amusing thing about this article is the underlying tone
"men are not shallow...no really they're not"

How Sex Drives Spending or Happy Valentine's Day

From Smart Money via Instapundit
So Happy Together: Sex and Spending

Valentine’s Day...may be a multibillion-dollar industry. But the larger driver of economic progress is the sex drive itself.
What drives us to create and produce? What drives us to consume? Why are love and money so intimately intertwined?

...let’s look at how sex drives people’s spending.

There are obvious ways sex gets people to spend more money (flowers, presents, dates… not to mention the direct, usually illegal, purchase of sex), but a tremendous amount of economic activity also goes into what’s called “signaling” — buying things to communicate one’s status, and thus one’s desirability as a mate.

Ah, so it's all about signalling. How do women and men differ at this?

Even more revealing, however, is how men and women respond in an economic experiment when “romantically primed” — that is, when they are shown pictures of attractive people of the opposite sex and then asked to make various consumption decisions.

Romantically primed men, in a study published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology in 2007, proved much more willing to splurge on things like flashy watches and expensive cars (while they showed no difference in their spending on boring, non-flashy things like tissues and headache medicine).

Women, meanwhile, didn’t adjust their consumption at all when romantically primed. Instead, romantically primed women indicated that they were more willing to spend time volunteering (such as at a children’s hospital or a homeless shelter).

So all this time I thought that women signalled through getting all gussied up with botox and blow drys and boob jobs...

But as it turns out men use stuff and women use actions to signal

What does all this tell us? It tells us that these consumption decisions are most likely about signaling: for men, of status and access to resources; for women, of altruism. Romantic priming made men no more likely to want to spend time volunteering; and romantically primed women only wanted to volunteer more when their effort would be visible, not when it would be inconspicuous.

So one way or the other, at least for women and their altruistic actions, it is all about the show.

The article goes on to discuss the evolutionary ramifications of all of this and suggests that men are at their prime, in terms of their creative output, when they are around 30 years old, because that period coincides with their greatest competition from other men for finding mates.

Personally, I'd like to leave all the analysis out of Valentine's Day...and the flowers and the chocolate....and just celebrate with caviar and champagne.

John Edwards and Fun With Sex Tapes

Can we talk about John Edwards for minute or two....and hubris.

Unquestionably one of the smartest lawyers in the country and on the fast track to Vice Presidency.

How...no really...how could this man have had so much hubris as to impregnate his mistress and worse leave a sex tape out there for all to eventually see. Wasn't it enough for him to nail the young blond, did he have to record his exploits on video for posterity?

Yeah John, there are two Americas; the one where men have enough respect for their wives who are actively campaigning for them while suffering from cancer to keep their private live private and the other one where men who claim to be "family' oriented, frolic with their baby mamas and then worse, tape their exploits.

It's a good thing that you have a 28,000 square foot house so that your wife can get all of it and the assets to support it.

John, you couldn't have just had a discreet affair? At your age couldn't you have managed the withdrawal method? John, god knows that you are photogenic but was it that awesome...was it worth it?

Pork The New Viagra - Who Knew?

Yeah, I really have to admit that I'm impressed with Christiana Ferndadez, the President of Argentina.
This woman really knows how to sell a product...pork.

Many people in this beef-loving nation reacted with surprise Thursday after Cristina Fernandez promoted pork in a speech during which she not only said pork is better than Viagra, but suggested she's personally proven it.
"I didn't know that eating pork improved sexual activity," Fernandez said in a meeting with representatives of the swine industry late Wednesday. "It is much more gratifying to eat some grilled pork than to take Viagra."

Naturally the head of the association of pork producers had something to add
Juan Luis Uccelli, supported Fernandez's speech by saying that Denmark and Japan have a much more "harmonious" sexual life then the Argentines because they eat a lot of pig meat.
"In Osaka, Japan, there is a village in which the people who reached 105 years old and ate a lot of pork had a lot of sexual activity," he told radio Mitre.

Admittedly, Ferndandez's speech was a bit tongue in cheek
but who believes this hard sell nonsense from Uccelli?
Denmark....really?

Well we all know that in advertising sex sells
So now I'm wondering should I change the marketing message for Beladora to
Estate Jewelry....better than Viagra!

Man Creates The Perfect Woman - Robosexual Roxxxy

THE world's first "sexbot" — a life-sized rubber doll named Roxxxy who can chat about football — has been unveiled.
Owners can customise Roxxxy's features and change her race, hair colour and breast size.

Obviously she can be tailored to any man's taste
Prospective owners can pick from the five different "personalities" depending on their individual preference.
There is Wild Wendy - who is outgoing and adventurous, Frigid Farah - who is reserved and shy, Mature Martha and S&M Susan - available for more adventurous types.

Mr Hines said: "She can't vacuum, she can't cook but she can do almost anything else if you know what I mean.
Um yeah Mr. Hines I think that we all know exactly what you mean.

Even better she's a girl with a personality!!
"She's a companion. She has a personality. She hears you. She listens to you. She speaks. She feels your touch. She goes to sleep. We are trying to replicate a personality of a person."
Mr Hines, from TrueCompanion, said the doll could carry out simple conversations and was designed to "know exactly what you like".
He said: "Sex only goes so far, then you want to be able to talk to the person.
"She knows exactly what you like. If you like Porsches, she likes Porsches. If you like soccer, she likes soccer."

And she's a lot less expensive than a real wife
The doll costs between US$7,000 (£4,350) to US$9,000 (£5,993), and was unveiled at the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo in Las Vegas at the weekend.

Yep, she's every man's dream...and she never ages!!!