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Nearly 1 in 4 young US women has tried an AI romantic partner
A 2025 national survey found that 23% of US women aged 18 to 30 and 10% of older women have chatted with an AI app built to act as a romantic partner, and that women users reported more depression and loneliness.
Writers in Britain, India and China praised only narrow waists
A 2007 study found that all 66 British descriptions of a woman's waist written from 1500 to 1799 praised a narrow one, as did ancient Indian and Chinese poems. It counted texts and did not test men's choices.
Men tend to want many more sex partners than women do – Coolidge effect
Coolidge effect The Coolidge effect describes a phenomenon in which male animals (and potentially humans) experience renewed sexual interest when…
Couples who never post about their love are happiest in UK survey
In a 2021 Shotkit survey of 2,000 UK adults, 73% of couples who never post about their relationship online rated it happy, against 32% of those posting three or more times a week. The poll was not peer reviewed.
Losing a mate lowers oxytocin and makes voles act depressed
Prairie voles separated from a bonded mate act depressed because a stress signal cuts brain oxytocin, a 2017 review by Bosch and Young reports. Oxytocin given into a reward area of the brain prevented this depression-like behavior.
Heidi Priebe says the love of your life can end and still matter
Thought Catalog writer Heidi Priebe argues that losing the love of your life does not cancel its meaning. Studies on beliefs about love and on growth after breakups support parts of that view.
Brides with 10 or more partners had a 33% five-year divorce rate
In a 2016 analysis of U.S. survey data, women who married in the 2000s after 10 or more sex partners had a 33% five-year divorce rate, against 6% for virgin brides.
Kafka’s doll letters were never found, and the love quote is fake
The story of Kafka writing letters from a lost doll comes from Dora Diamant, his last partner. The letters have never been found, and the famous line about love returning in another way was added much later.
Premarital cohabitation and divorce in women: number of partners is key
Research on premarital cohabitation and divorce finds the risk is not from living with a future spouse, but from having multiple premarital partners.