Site Helps Bust Online Dating Scams

HOUSTON - With hundreds of social networking sites online, the Internet has become a virtual dating scene where singles meet and fall in love.

But your Mr. Right may be looking for more than romance. He may only be interested in your money.

Investigative reporter Amy Davis discovered a Web site growing in popularity that can help you distinguish a true Casanova from a con artist.

"A couple of friends told me about the sites that they had been doing and that they were having fun, and I was thinking, 'Well, why not?'" said a woman who did not want to be identified.

She told Local 2 that she did nothing wrong. Her only crime was being too trusting.

She met a man on a singles dating site who sent her pictures, supposedly of himself. After weeks of exchanging e-mails and even phone calls from London, the man then mailed her money orders and asked her to wire him the cash.

"When I saw that, I was like, 'Oh, my goodness. These are bogus. This is a scam,'" she said.

And it is not a new scam, according to the federal law enforcement agencies. The FBI has warned of romance fraud online, and now other private groups are warning trusting people, too.

Romancescams.org encourages people to post pictures of others who supposedly scammed them.

We found an identical picture of the one e-mailed to the woman in our story. It turns out that the man in the picture is not her love interest.

There are hundreds of pictures of people who are actually victims themselves.

Here's how it works - the pictures were nabbed off the Internet by scammers who claim the pictures are of them.

Since they have no intention of ever meeting face to face, you may as well be talking to Bozo the Clown.

Romancescams.org has also posted a quiz on its site with questions such as "Have you been on a social or dating networking site within the past six months?"
"Does the person you met claim to be from the U.S., but is working overseas?"

If you answer yes to a majority of the questions, it's likely that you are involved in a romance scam.

You'll also find links for how to report these scams to the appropriate law enforcement agency.

For more information, visit romancescams.org.

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Dating Behaviors That Scare Single Men Away

You're dating a guy, and it's the crucial first few weeks. You really like this guy, and you're wondering what you can do (or avoid doing) to keep this relationship going and not scare him away.

The truth is there are certain things that women can do that will scare men away. Don't sabotage a potentially great relationship that could have gone somewhere by scaring a man off right at the beginning.
Here are six dating behaviors guaranteed to scare men off that all women should avoid:

1. Trash-talking your ex. Don't talk negatively about an ex-boyfriend in front of a guy you're dating. I don't care if you're on your first date or on your 15th date with a guy, don't ever trash-talk your ex. Your ex is somebody you dated, invited into your life, and with whom you spent a lot of time. So don't talk negatively about your ex in any way, because what a guy thinks when you do this is that if he ever becomes your ex that you're going to trash-talk him the same way. So, when a man asks you about your ex, you can politely say, "We are no longer together. It was a great relationship while it lasted, and I learned a lot." That's it.

2. Paranoia Runs Rampant. Here you are dating a man you really like, and the first couple of weeks are going well. Then, that first boys' night out happens. In the beginning, you send him a text that says, "Have a great time tonight!" As the night progresses, however, seeds of doubt start forming in your mind about what he's doing, and you start to think "Is he cheating on me? Is he flirting with other women? Where is he right now?" So then, you lob another text in to him asking "What's going on? What are you doing right now?" Even though he tells you he's just hanging out with his friends, you proceed to make a major blunder:

“You start checking up on him with continuous texts throughout the night. This paranoia will push a man away.”

You start checking up on him with continuous texts throughout the night. This paranoia will push a man away. So when you are dating a man and he's out with his friends, respect his "guy time" -- it will make you the cool woman he's always wanted to find.

3. Trash-talking other women. A huge mistake many women make is trash-talking other women in front of the man they're dating. For example, you are out with him when a woman walks by wearing a skimpy short skirt. You say, "Look how promiscuous that woman looks! I can't believe she is going around in public like that!" What you are doing when you make comments like this to a guy you're dating is telling him that you're not confident in the way you look. It tells him that you don't love who you are and haven't embraced your own body. You are planting a seed of doubt in him, causing him to wonder if he he should date someone else who is more confident (and tolerant). Don't trash-talk other women. It makes you look really insecure.

4. Fishing for compliments. This is something that can drive a man crazy. Here is a typical scenario: The guy you're dating looks at you and says, "You really look beautiful tonight!" Ten minutes later, you look at him and ask, "How do I look tonight?" Stop fishing for compliments. Real compliments come from the heart. Allow us to compliment you when we really mean it. If we don't give a compliment at the exact moment you desire it, just accept it and be OK with that.

5. Clingy and possessive. You don't need to do everything together. You're still getting to know him. If there are things he likes to do that simply don't interest you, be cool with it. You don't have to be joined at the hip. If you are going to a cocktail party together, you don't have to be next to him at every moment. If you see him speaking with some woman at the party, do not immediately run over and start grabbing his hand and giving him a big hug -- and certainly don't do this all night long. You are being clingy and possessive when you do this.

6. Pushing friends on him. Avoid pushing friends on us too soon. Example: A woman will hang out with a guy on the first or second date and say to him, "You have to meet my friends Jenna and Amy. You also have to meet my friends Phil and Anne; they're such a great couple, and you'll love them!" A man hears this and thinks, "I don't even know you yet. Can I get to know you for a month or two before I have to go meet all of your friends and be put on display as 'the boyfriend?'" We don't want to be "the boyfriend" right away. It's too much pressure. We want to get to know you slowly and learn what you're all about. Believe me, once we get to know you -- and like you -- we will be more willing to get to know all of your friends.

Following these tips will help you get past the first month of a new relationship with a man and avoid some of the major pitfalls that can end a new relationship before it even starts. Be the confident woman you really are so we have a chance to embrace you. Don't scare us off before we have a chance to get to know you!

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Are You Addicted to the Internet Dating Game?

Do you use on-line dating services to meet the love of your life? Are you addicted yet? Have you crossed over that fine line where love and infatuation become lust? Has what once started out as hope and illusion turned to desperation and disillusionment in your Internet quests? How much is too much and how far is too far when it comes to the world of Internet cyber romance? Good question!

What is it about Internet dating which makes it so addictive? Can it truly be addictive? At first blush some would say, well it’s nothing but fun and games. At second wink isn’t that how addictions like gambling, drinking and drugging all started out? Hey, people get addicted to fun and games! Perhaps three things stand out which make Internet dating addictive: It’s arousing, it’s habit forming and it provides needed attention. When the need for attention and arousal becomes habit forming, you are well on your way to addiction.

Anything that is novel and new is exciting! It arouses us in ways we can only hope for. Many men begin using the Internet for meeting and dating with the best laid intentions… To meet someone special. In the end, many of these “best laid” intentions become an addictive means to an end to getting laid. You see, whenever you do something over and over you get bored, less aroused and require more stimulation. The longer you stay on-line the more likely you are going to become desensitized and eventually cross the line from loving intentions to lustful temptations.

Let’s be realistic, meeting someone on-line takes time. Most men do not possess patience. We live in a fast food competitive society of having it when I want it which is usually now. You snooze you lose. Add to the fact people post quite seductive, enticing and racy pictures and profiles of themselves on the Net and you have the ingredients for lust and temptation. By their nature, men are visual creatures. How can you not get turned on by nearly naked or naked women looking for love…or sex? Here you are trying to work women with the hopes of meeting them and it’s taking too long.

Along comes the naughty and nasty pictures of “whip bitch” divas with bodies and looks made for hedonism, and what once started out as meeting Ms. Right changes to meeting Ms. Right Now! The general male perception is that if a women is dressed provocative, acts sleazy and easy, and bares all, then she must be available for the immediate taking. Why not just take a sneak peak into Pandora’s box? A little taste won’t hurt! Well, that’s what many cocaine and crystal methane addicts said when they tried it for the first time. I am not saying Internet dating and sex are the same as a drug addiction, but I am saying curiosity opens some doors that were never meant to be open. Curiosity has killed the cat on many occasions. Safari hunters have also been slain by the pussy!

Many men get addicted to this on-line arousal. Add web cams and virtual sites and this becomes like going to a nudie bar minus the cover charge. The only difference between nudie bars and on-line dating is “reverse arousal”. How far are you willing to go to arouse the other person? Grad pictures, vacation pictures and all the other innocent pictures you posted start getting replaced with nudes and genital shots. Before you know it, you have become an Internet exhibitionist. You can start your own reality show called “lifestyles of the desperate and shameless”! Some men begin crossing lines, boundaries and solar systems of decency and integrity to get some one’s attention they’ve never met with the hopes of getting in her pants. This all happened because you got bored, impatient and aroused by a naked girl. After all the nude posing, exposing and jockeying, in the end did you get the naked bombshell? Probably not! What the heck, it was only at the cost of your morals, scruples and integrity. Cheers!

Internet dating and chatting is extremely habit forming. You know you’re addicted when you need to be on everyday, certain times of the day, your day revolves around being on- line, you miss work or social activities to be on-line, time is no longer a factor once you are on-line and you develop psychological symptoms of withdrawal if you miss a day or an “on-line” appointment. Further, add to the fact some men spend thousands of dollars to play on-line or engage in autoerotic stimulation and this becomes their primary means of arousal. This is when you know you’ve crossed the line from habit to addiction. In a habit you still have some degree of control and can choose to go on-line or not go on-line. In addiction, necessity replaces habit and choice. You have to be on-line. If you are sexually dependent on being on-line for arousal and climax, you need to be on-line to get off. It’s not surprising some men are on-line 3-4 times daily sometimes more often just to get off. When you get to this point, you are o longer really interested in meeting someone for a relationship, you are addicted to the venue just to “get off“. As a matter of fact, I have spoken with men who started out on-line with noble intentions, got hooked on the sexy women and then got hooked on masturbating while being on-line. Some men told me they would probably never even meet women even if they could get laid for real. They were more habituated and/or addicted to on-line dating as their visual and anticipatory fantasy for sexual arousal!

The attention one receives from being on-line can become exciting, overwhelming and addictive! What guy doesn’t want to chat with and perhaps meet some of the most beautiful women in the world? What guy doesn’t want to live the dream of dating 2 or more of these women at the same time? Some people believe Internet dating is just that…Dating. If you are on-line trying to meet women and date them, then you are kind of “dating” them already. Some men start to believe they are self-appointed gigolos working many women on-line at the same time. This is great for the male ego. It also allows men to feel great that they can attract a new flavor of the week, let alone flavor of the day! Some men told me that some on-line dating services have little gimmicks like being able to send cyber smiley faces or flowers to other members. These same men told me it’s like notches on the old gunslinger belt. The more of these you have the better it makes you feel. You start to feel like every woman wants you. As a matter of fact, some men actually told me the confidence they gain from the cyber world helps them succeed in the real world of dating. Addiction to on-line dating might pose a problem if you are always on-line you never have a chance to do any “real dating”!

Beware the hidden slides, snakes and snares of on-line dating. In the beginning you control it, but at some point it might start controlling you. You will know when it controls you when you have to keep reminding yourself that you are in control and that you can quit anytime you want.

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Bionic bra: Victoria's circuit

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Looking for a better way to charge her iPod on the go, Adrienne So had an idea – could she invent a bionic bra to harness the energy of her bouncing breasts?

As a woman who loves sports, I've always found the concept of breasts bothersome. If all goes according to plan, they will fulfil their intended function for about three of the 70 years that I have them. The rest of the time, they alternate between getting in my way and embarrassing me. They are a favourite target of Frisbees and footballs. Finding sports bras is a chore. Shirts don't fit.

And these are just the physical discomforts. I am still tortured by the memory of three cousins standing in a circle around me, at the impressionable age of 10, mocking my early development and telling me that I was going to be the Asian Dolly Parton. Fortunately, that never happened, but the possibility haunted my late childhood.

Then one day recently, I had an idea. As I rode a bus to the office, my messenger bag slung uncomfortably across my chest, I thought, "Why not put the girls to work?" Human-powered devices are showing up everywhere, from Rotterdam's sustainable dance floor to human-powered gyms in Hong Kong. The timing seemed perfect – perhaps even overdue – for a bra that could harness the untapped power of breast motion.

The idea of an energy-generating bra isn't as crazy as it might sound. The underwear company Triumph International Japan recently unveiled a solar-powered bra that supposedly will generate enough energy to power an iPod. But I live in foggy San Francisco and prefer not to walk around in my underwear in public. Could someone design an iPod-powering bra for me?

I decided to run the question past some scientists. It turns out that the physics of breast motion has been studied closely for the last two decades by a gamut of researchers – most of them women. LaJean Lawson, a former professor of exercise science at Oregon State University, has been researching breast motion since 1985 and now works as a consultant for companies such as Nike to develop better sports-bra designs. Lawson is enthusiastic about my idea, but warns that it will be tricky to execute. You would need the right breast size and the right material, she explains, and the bra itself would have to be cleverly designed. "It's just a matter of finding the sweet spot, between reducing motion to the point where it's comfortable but still allowing enough motion to power your iPod," she says.

Lawson explains that breasts move on three different axes: from side to side, front to back, and up and down. The most motion is generated on the vertical axis. Naturally, the bigger the breast, the more momentum it generates. "Let's face it – if you're a double-A marathoner, you're probably not going to get that iPod up and running," Lawson says. Measurements compiled by Lawson and her colleagues show that a D-cup in a low-support bra can travel as much as 35 inches (89cm) up and down (35 inches!) during exercise, while a B-cup in a high-support bra barely moves an inch.

Fabric and design are also important factors in distance travelled. Elastic fabric allows the breast to move more. Choosing between an encapsulation design, in which the cups are separated, or a compression design, where they are hugged close to the body, can also affect breast motion. An encapsulation design further reduces motion because two smaller masses are easier to control than one large one. "Also, if you have a really high neckline, the breasts won't fly up," Lawson says. So I am in the market for an elastic, compression-style bra with a low neckline. Sexy!

Of course, even a bra that perfectly maximises motion (without sacrificing support and comfort) would be useful to me only if there were a way to turn that motion into energy. For a primer on how to do that, I turn to Professor Zhong Lin Wang of Georgia Tech, who is working to develop fabric made from nanowires that will capture energy from motion. Wang's wires are about 1/1,000th the width of a human hair. When woven together in a fabric, these nanowires rub up against one another and convert the mechanical energy from the friction into an electric charge. According to Wang, the fabric is cheap to produce and surprisingly efficient; his team hopes to use it to create energy-generating T-shirts and other articles of clothing. A square metre of fibre produces about 80 milliwatts of power, which is enough to run a small device such as a mobile phone. Wang expects to have a shirt available for purchase within five years.

Many bra patterns call for about a metre of fabric, which would probably mean that a regular bra would have enough energy to power an iPod. But the fabric could also be layered – doubling, or even tripling, the amount of energy produced. I ask Wang whether his fabric could be used to make a bra. "Bras would be ideal," he says. "There is a lot of friction and movement in that general area. And the fabric would be thick."

"So you can generate enough energy to power an iPod?" I ask.

"Definitely," Wang replies.

I ask Wang if this bra would be machine-washable.

"You don't need to wash a bra," he says.

I disagree. Wang says his team has been working on the washing problem for a while. Nanowire technology can generate electricity only if the space between the wires is maintained, and that space might be affected if the fabric were agitated by a regular washing-machine. One solution would be to layer the fabric so that the parts that directly touch the skin could be washed, leaving the nanowires in between untouched.

There is one more approach I want to investigate, one that might supplement Wang's technology. Is there a way to capture the energy of the bra strap, which bears the pressure of holding up the breast mass? To answer this question, I call Larry Rome, a biology professor at the University of Pennsylvania and the creator of Lightning Packs. The Lightning Pack, intended for long-haul hikers and for the military, generates kinetic energy from the vertical displacement of a heavy backpack. Would it be possible to use the kinetic energy generated from a breast's vertical displacement?

"The backpacks we've built are intended to carry between 40 and 80 pounds," Rome says.

I cite the D-cup numbers given to me by Lawson. "Well, that's not normal, is it?" Rome asks.

I reply that it probably isn't.

But after a moment's thought, Rome comes up with an idea. The Lightning Pack uses a rotary generator, which converts motion into energy by winding a rotor as the backpack moves up and down. Rotary generators produce up to 7 watts of energy, enough to power a compact fluorescent light bulb.

Rome says that it might be possible to insert a linear generator into the bra. A linear generator is a lot smaller and creates energy by moving a piston up and down. Rome concedes that with the right body type, this just might work, though he warns that it "probably wouldn't be very comfortable".

Still, if someone were to engineer a kinetically powered bra, even one that isn't quite as comfortable as the old-fashioned kind, I'd be intrigued – and I might just start looking at my breasts in a different light. Maybe it's not very sexy to see breasts as a pair of batteries, but oil prices are so high that people are jogging to work. It may be time for breasts to start pulling their own weight.


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Park In South Russia Gets Amsterdam-inspired Breast Sculpture

ROSTOV-ON-DON, July 8 (RIA Novosti) - A Russian sculptor inspired by a visit to Amsterdam's notorious red-light district has created a bas-relief sculpture of a woman's breasts, now on display in a south Russian town, local authorities said.

The sculpture, lying on a one-meter-high plinth in a park in the town of Bataysk, near Rostov-on-Don, features a pair of breasts being fondled by a man's hand.

A spokeswoman for the Bataysk administration told RIA Novosti that the sculptor, Anatoly Sknarin, "saw a similar composition in Amsterdam" on a paving slab in the red-light district and decided to emulate the work in his home town.

She said the sculpture's base will be soon plastered and painted, and will display a suggestive message in verse, encouraging men to touch the breasts to "improve their manly strength" and "stay young forever."

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Male Biological Clock 'Ticks Too'

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Scientists say they have found more evidence that men as well as women have biological clocks and that they start to tick in their mid-30s.

A French study of over 12,200 couples having fertility treatment suggests the chance of a successful pregnancy falls when the man is aged over 35.

It adds that the chance is significantly lower if he is over 40.

Previous studies have shown that both natural and assisted conception is more difficult if the man is over 40.

The researchers told a European reproductive health conference that it was likely the problems were caused by DNA damage in sperm.

Miscarriage risk

The researchers studied couples who had sought treatment for infertility at the Eylau Centre for Assisted Reproduction in Paris between January 2002 and December 2006.

All were given intrauterine inseminations (IUI), also known as artificial insemination, where sperm is inserted into the womb when the woman is ovulating.

It is given to couples where the woman has no fertility problems and is less invasive than IVF.

The men's sperm were examined for quantity, their ability to move and swim and their size and shape.

Rates of pregnancy, miscarriage and births were recorded.

In addition, the researchers analysed detailed data on the pregnancies, which allowed them to pinpoint factors associated with the man and the woman.

As expected, maternal age had an effect in women over 35, who had a significantly higher chance of miscarriage and lower rate of pregnancy.

But the team also found that, where the father was in his late 30s, miscarriages were more common than if the man was younger.

And if a man was over 40, the chances of a successful pregnancy were even lower.

For those couples, a third of pregnancies ended in miscarriage and only 10% of treatments resulted in pregnancies.

'Growing evidence'

Dr Stephanie Belloc, who presented the work to the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE) conference in Barcelona, said: "This research has important implications for couples wanting to start a family."

She said such couples should be offered IVF (where an egg is fertilised in a lab dish), and where the outer membrane of the egg seems to block sperm with DNA damage, and ICSI (where a sperm is injected directly into an egg), where the best sperm can be selected for use.

"These methods, although not in themselves a guarantee of success, may help couples where the man is older to achieve a pregnancy more quickly, and also reduce the risk of miscarriage," she added.

Dr Allan Pacey, a fertility expert at Sheffield University and secretary of the British Fertility Society, said: "There is growing evidence from a number of studies to show that men are not totally immune from reproductive ageing.

"Previous studies of couples trying to conceive naturally or undergoing IVF have shown that men over the age of about 40 are less fertile than younger men. Moreover, if they do achieve a pregnancy their partners are more likely to miscarry.

"This study reinforces the message that men aren't excused from reproductive ageing."


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How To Turn A Hot Chick Into A Geek

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Getting a hot chick to go out with you is a difficult thing and countless books, websites and TV shows have covered the topic. So let's say you follow the advice to the letter and, shockingly, it works. Now you're a geek going out with a super hot chick and the two of you have absolutely zero in common. Let's change that; let's turn a Hot Chick Into a Geek.

The key to flipping any hot "square" into an uberhot geek is the Bridge Theory. When two land masses are separated (by water, by a canyon, whatever), the easiest way to bring them together is a bridge. Bridge Theory for flipping a hot square works the same way; most hot chicks CAN be turned geek if you know the proper "bridge."

For each geeky category, there are several bridges. Use the bridges and you will be able to increase the geek factor notch by notch. Forget the bridges and your hot chick will never, ever be interested in that subgenre of geekdom again. So don't have her sit through an all day marathon of "Red Dwarf" unprepared or she will never want to watch anything remotely Britcom or sci fi again.

Be careful, take your time and you'll have a model quoting "They Live" in no time.

Hot chicks normally like mainstream, multiplex flicks. This should be obvious; they contain good looking stars, which are people they can relate to. I'm not suggesting all hot chicks are shallow. Not at all. But just like how you enjoyed "Superbad" so much because you related to the fat and nerdy protagonists, hot chicks enjoy movies like "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" because they contain people like Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie.

The key, then, to a cinematic bridge is to find a middle ground between geekiness and hot. The perfect "bridge" filmmaker, when it comes to genre flicks, is Quentin Tarantino. Every one of his flicks from "Pulp Fiction" onward have had the perfect balance of hot chicks and celebrities on one side and geeky genre film worship on the other. It's an added bonus that he writes so well for women, making his two part "Kill Bill" flick and his half of "Grindhouse" ("Death Proof") the perfect bridges between your hot chick and genres of cinema as diverse as martial arts flicks, slasher flicks and road movies.

Once your hot chick has seen good looking, intelligent female characters having fun in films that not only hint at other, older genre flicks but also out and out reference them, you're set. After checking out "Kill Bill," for example, you might as well show her "Shogun Assassins;" that 1980 film was the one the Bride's daughter as watching, after all. You could throw in some "Enter The Dragon," "Drunken Master" and any anime of your choosing for good measure. If you use the "bridge" and time it well, you'll have a super sexy Asian cinema fanatic in no time.

"Death Proof" is a shorter film than "Kill Bill" but it's possibly more potent with its genre film connections. If your lady digs Tarantino's "car slasher" flick starring Kurt Russell, she'll probably take a liking to flicks like "Escape from New York" and "Big Trouble in Little China." If she was able to handle the "thrills and chills," she might enjoy some legitimate slasher flicks, like "Halloween," "Last House on the Left" and "Friday the 13th." And in the probable scenario that your lady is turned on by the car's in the film, you're fuckin' in. You can not only parlay that into her interest in speed flicks (like "Vanishing Point," the original "Gone in 60 Seconds" and "The French Connection,") but you might be able to get her into racing video games too.

Don't push your luck TOO hard with this bridge, however. Just because she's starting to enjoy Asian movies doesn't mean she won't run away in terror if you put on the hentai porn (though if she sticks around, you and your tentacle monster are safe). Same goes for slasher flicks; she might enjoy "Halloween" but that doesn't mean she's ready for "Cannibal Holocaust." If you had the patience it takes to cultivate a hot chick, though, you should be fine.

Die Hard gaming girls do exist. Thanks to G4TV and Morgan Webb, we know this is true. Now, hot die hard gaming girls? Ones who ACTUALLY play video games (we're looking at YOU Olivia Munn)? That is a rare breed.

And while you might not be able to convert your hottie into a "true" die hard gamer, you should be able to get her pretty interested in video games. And for that, you can thank Nintendo and their its flagship title: the Wii.

Now, I am not suggesting it's time for you to ditch your PS3 and XBox 360 (and their superior graphics and, in many cases, gameplay) and dedicate your life to the Wii. That'd be pretty retarded. But the Wii is a perfect bridge system for hot chicks.

Now, the reason why hot chicks have been excluding themselves from the gamer demographic for so long is because of the public perception that video games are anti social. While us dudes might find that concept one of the more appealing aspects of video games, the same does not fly for hot chicks. Hot chicks, by their very nature, are social. The fastest way for a hot chick to gain validation is to appear in a social situation and appear insanely hot. This is why girls wear hot dresses (it has nothing to do with us, fellas).

Wii Sports and Wii Fit, then, are perfect games to lure in the girls because they're both social and they have the added dubious benefit of being exercise (which hot chicks enjoy). Once they've either mastered or grown tired of both games, it's time for step two: get her Guitar Hero. Yes, I know Guitar Hero for Wii is shitty. Far shittier than its counterparts on other systems. But it will serve as the perfect buffer between your hottie and the purchase of an XBox 360 and/or PS3.

Once your significant(ly hotter) other has realized the limitations of the system, she'll start dropping hints she wants Rock Band and an XBox. Trust me, I'm there now. I actually have to ask my (hot) girlfriend to stop playing video games every so often; when she gets in her zone, there's no stopping that crazy, crazy girl.

Now there are some games that, no matter how hard you try, you will not be able to nor would you want to convincer her she likes. Chief among those games is "World of Warcraft." Hot chicks don't like totally immersive games where you bury yourself into a character; they don't need to escape reality so they choose not to. Also, any game that requires you give it more attention than your girlfriend HAS to be bad for your relationship.

Be careful and game in caution.

Comic Books and graphic novels (especially) have gained much prominence in the last 10 years. What started out as mere colored ink on pulp is now an industry that pumps out awesome stories and new and ever exciting properties by the week.

A suitable bridge for hot chicks to get into comics is the work of James Kochalka. James does these autobiographical anthologies where he documents his somewhat mundane life and, as luck would have it, depicts himself as an elf. For anyone who hasn't seen his work, it sounds pretty, well, gay. And it sort of is, but at the same time it's pretty funny and, more importantly, thanks to the cutesy drawing style, the kind of stuff your hot girlfriend will like (she'd been in good company; Frank Miller likes Kochalka's stuff as well).

After she's checked out Kochalka, you can slowly introduce her to Brian K. Vaughn. The easiest "in" at this point would be "Runaways." Even though it's an awesomely written and drawn comic that's both hilarious and action packed, "Runaways" still remains, in its core, what it was commissioned as: a comic for girls.

From "Runaways," you can quickly and painlessly move on to more Vaughn stuff (especially the girl-friendly "Y: The Last Man"). You can also easily move her onto some manga (if that's your scene).

Go slowly moving into straight super hero stuff, though. Just because she digs the skrull in "Runaways" doesn't mean she'll want to read every back issue of John Byrne's run on "Fantastic 4."

Here's a toughie. There's no true bridge from a hot chick to science fiction. The work of Richard Kelly and Joss Whedon is probably the closest we've got and "Buffy The Vampire Slayer" and "Donnie Darko" both seem like perfect bridges on the surface level. But both examples are, upon deeper inspection, far too nerdy for a simple dabbler.

There's something off putting about science fiction to hot chicks. I haven't quite put my finger on it, but I think it has something to do with the fact that, in sci fi, any truly hot chick is either an alien or a member of the Borg.

Future filmmakers out there, there's an opening: make the sci fi equivalent to "Kill Bill" and you will be a hero to millions of geeks everywhere. Good luck with that.

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