What motivated you to write the book?
I wanted other people – but mostly women – to know that they’re not alone wrestling with their deepest longings and dilemmas around pleasure, of whatever kind. And that there are ways to acknowledge and accept who you are at your core and not have to throw over everything you cherish...

Dating coach and matchmaker Marla Martenson has spent the last several years working with eligible (and not so eligible) bachelors and bachelorettes in Beverly Hills. The author of three bestselling books, including Diary of a Beverly Hills Matchmaker, Martenson discusses matchmaking in the land of the beautiful, dealing with slime balls and...

Q & A with Blane Bachelor, author of On Being a Bachelor: Thoughts on Dating, Mating and Relating

How did writing a dating column affect your dating life when you were single (did you tell dates and how did they receive the information)?
It wasn’t information that I readily volunteered, because I...

Dr. Karen Gail Lewis, author of Why Don’t You Understand? A Gender Relationship Dictionary

Why did you decide to write the dictionary and how has the response been from women and men?
In my 39 years of practice as a marriage and family therapist, I've noticed that men and women have different meanings to...

Rossi Morreale, host of ABC’s “Dating the Dark," weighs in on love, dating, and porn. Yes, porn.


On physical attraction:
Looks do matter. You have to be physically attracted to that person. But, there has to be more. That’s why the divorce rate is so high – the physical wears off and that’s all you...