Seduction - Mid-Century Style or Plus Ca Change....

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 To Handle the Recession - Riga Style

Global rebound anemic: Roubini
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Advanced economies face years of anemic growth and the risk of a double-dip recession as their citizens cope with sluggish employment and highly indebted governments, economist Nouriel Roubini said on Monday.
A sovereign debt crisis in the euro zone has rattled financial markets in recent weeks as investors worry that fiscal austerity measures dictated by a $1 trillion European Union-International Monetary Fund rescue plan could stifle already hobbled global growth.

So what can you do when the news is bad and it is just so ugly out there...well in true European fashion you can always take to the streets as these luscious Latvian blonde barbies did.
Latvia blondes hold festival to beat recession blues

Hundreds of blonde Latvian women have been marching through the capital Riga to try to bolster the national spirit in time of recession.
Most of the participants dressed in pink and wore high heels.
The blonde parade began last year and was planned as a one-off but it is back by popular demand and is now a two-day festival.
Latvia has been hit badly by recession. Its economy shrank by 18% in 2009 and it has Europe's highest unemployment.

Yeah, those blonde babes really know how to rip it up in Riga!

Marika Gederte, president of the Latvian Association of Blondes, told the BBC the idea came out of the economic gloom.
"I was so tired, you know, every day opening the computer and reading the newspapers and just reading about problems. We decided... let's do something nice. And I asked myself the question: what can I do for my country? And this is what I did... We are very proud to be blonde."

Proud to be blonde? She's got to be kidding.
Obviously she has having a 'blonde moment" when she said that.
No wonder we have so many blonde jokes.

On a plane flight from Seattle to Chicago, a blonde was sitting in economy class. About half way through the flight, she got up and moved to an empty seat in first class. A flight attendant who observed this, went over to her and politely explained that she had to move back to economy class because that was what her ticket was for. The blonde replied, "I'm blonde, I'm beautiful, I'm going to Chicago and I'm staying right here."

After several attempts to explain to the blonde why she had to return to economy class, the flight attendant gave up. She went to the cockpit and explained the situation to the pilot and co-pilot. The co-pilot said, "Let me try." He went up to the blonde and politely tried to explain to her why she needed to return to her seat in economy class.

But the blonde only replied, "I'm blonde, I'm beautiful, I'm going to Chicago and I'm staying right here." Frustrated, the co-pilot returned to the cockpit. He suggested that perhaps they should have the airline call the police and have her arrested when they land.

"Wait a minute," said the pilot. "Did you say she's blonde? I can handle this. My wife is a blonde. I speak Blonde." So he went up to the woman sitting in first class and whispered something in her ear.
"I'm sorry," said the blonde, and she promptly got up and returned to her seat in economy class.

"What did you say to her?" ask the astonished flight attendant and co-pilot.
To which the pilot replied, "I just told her that first class isn't going to Chicago."

Happy Monday

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.

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!!!