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Mating Archive

April 18, 2005
The Party's Over

The sex lives of empty nesters are just great—until the kids move back in.

May 10, 2004
The Price of Loyalty

In the dog-eat-dog world of New York dating, pals on the make face an unhappy dilemma: Who’s more important, the fling or the friend?

February 17, 2003
The Other Woman

He says she’s just a friend. But she also happens to be his ex-lover, a former model, and a single mom who knows him better than you do. The worst part: She’s so nice.

August 27, 2001
Internal Affairs

This summer, the word intern has become shorthand for a young woman looking for a powerful man to hook up with. We went to Washington to find out who's in charge.

November 15, 2004
Hey There, Gorgeous

When a stranger asks you out on the street, you’re supposed to run away. But who knows what you might be missing?

April 11, 2005
Diminishing Interest

Why getting married kills your social life.

June 2, 2003
Who's On Top?

The Internet has helped turn gay cruising into a narrowly focused, hard-target search, but is it realistic to divide the world into tops and bottoms?

July 14, 2003
Smoke Signals

One unexpected dividend of Bloomberg’s smoking ban, now that the cold weather is finally gone, has been the extension of the pickup scene onto the sidewalk.

August 18, 2003
Friends and Lovers

Gay women in New York quickly discover just how many degrees of sexual separation lie between their ex-girlfriends and their latest hookup.

June 23, 2003
Passage to India

Young, upwardly mobile Indian professionals are using Internet dating as a way to preserve traditional family values in twenty-first-century Manhattan.

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