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Just the Tip: Gifts Your Girlfriend Will Love

Guys, don’t worry, we’ve got you covered on getting your girl the ultimate gift this year. No need to hassel her best friend via frantic g-chats, “is this her???” I mean, to be honest we normally suggest something we would want so umm, hello then we can borrow it (half-joke.) Our advice: go outside of [...]

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Great Advice on How to Meet the Opposite Sex from a Guy

So, there are real-life guys out there who actually want to be in a relationship? Jacob Tomsky, author of Heads in Beds: A Reckless Memoir of Hotels, Hustles and So-Called Hospitality, answered this age-old question for us in his recent article featured in The Huffington Post,“Still Single? How to Meet the Opposite Sex.” Here are [...]

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Do You Have An Intimacy Disorder? Vixely Talks to Expert Robert Weiss (Part 2)

My clients want to have relationships, but they also want to be 100% certain that they won’t get hurt. For emotional self-protection they tend to seek situations that offer controllable intimacy, which is an oxymoron. Emotional intensity, over which you can feel some control, is not the same as genuine closeness. Being vulnerable enough to [...]

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Do You Have An Intimacy Disorder? Vixely Talks to Expert Robert Weiss

My clients want to have relationships, but they also want to be 100% certain that they won’t get hurt. For emotional self-protection, they tend to seek situations that offer controllable intimacy, which is an oxymoron. Emotional intensity, over which you can feel some control, is not the same as genuine closeness. Being vulnerable enough to [...]

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New Start-Up, ThreadMatcher, Makes Finding Fashion Faster & More Fun

(Post updated 11/12/12) In a dream scenario, women wish they could grab all the amazing clothes they see in the world and then have a personal stylist dress them according to their desired look. Well, dream no longer. Welcome to ThreadMatcher, which helps you find the fashion you crave more efficiently with personalized recommendations just for [...]

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New, Brilliant Campaign Uses Foursquare to Advocate Safe Sex (Video)

We all love using Foursquare to check in to our favorite locales (e.g. Grey Lady, Rosemary’s and the like), but what if you could use it to check in with people…every time you hooked up with them? That’s basically the theme of this new safe sex campaign by the AIDS Council and created by ad giant [...]

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Guy Q&A: How Do I Change My Boyfriend’s Style?

Welcome to Vixely Q&A with Vixely’s resident team of men. Our guy authors are intelligent, honest, funny and—dare we say it—good looking. They take your questions on sex, love, dating and relationships seriously and give you useful answers you truly want from the opposite sex. Some of them are hipsters, some of them are preppy, [...]

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Vix Six: 6 Best & Worst Dates on HowAboutWe Right Now

Vixely loves HowAboutWe for meeting new people over a fun date—assuming the date doesn’t involve a starring contest or trying to “kill it on the town.” Here are our Vix Six Picks of the best and worst date ideas on HowAboutWe right now. Best 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Worst 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. [...]

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True Story: Dating As A Mormon…Even Though I’m Not One

We open our scene on two twenty-somethings out to dinner on a first date: Me: “My friend and I write a blog as characters. She is The Mormon and I’m …” This is the beginning of a personal play I seem to keep performing. It starts with a statement that I’ve reiterated on multiple first [...]

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Vix Six: 6 Common Myths vs. Facts About Men

Understanding what men want can feel a little bit like looking into a black box. So, market researchers Christopher Brya and Miguel Almaraz (authors of WTF Men Are Thinking) went out looking for the facts about what men really think to dispel any lingering myths. They surveyed 250,000 men on their thoughts on everything from communication to sex, [...]

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