Girls Gone Wild on Brisbane Tinder, Part XV: The Gen X(XX) Edition
Lest the previous fourteen installments of this series have given you the wrong idea that going wild on Tinder is the sole domain of Gen Ys and Gen Zs (kids …
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Girls Gone Wild on Brisbane Tinder, Part XVI
Warning: Adult themes and language I was going to sit down and write a profound intro paragraph but really… it’s 2020. It’s been a shitshow; depressing wherever you look, from …
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Girls Gone Wild On Brisbane Tinder, Part XV: The Birthday Edition
Warning: Adult Content & Language Not that we need any excuses to continue with new installments of the “Girls”, but the world is still in a lock-down and needs plenty …
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Girls Gone Wild on Brisbane Tinder, Part XIV: The Quarantine Special
Let’s face it, with the viral doom and gloom seemingly inescapable, distractions are at a premium. Desperate times require desperate measures. Such as bringing this disreputable blog series back from …
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Love in time of Corona*
Giovanni Boccaccio had written “The Decameron” in the aftermath of the Black Death pandemic of 1348, which carried away somewhere around one third of the European population. The book is …
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On dating woke women
British actor whom I’ve never heard of, Laurence Fox, has caused quite a stir as a result of an appearance on a TV show “Question Time” last week. Fox apparently …
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THOTs and prayers – and other ways to help the fireys and victims
There are many ways to raise money for the victims of natural disasters, from charity concerts to social media donation drives, but some enterprising young women in Australia and the …
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Donald Trump: Making American Sex Great Again
The stock market is up, unemployment is down, wages are rising, manufacturing jobs are returning. And now this: A recent survey of 2,000 sexually active American adults asked respondents to …
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Think Feministically, Act Old-fashionally
Equality – good in theory, doesn’t necessarily work for you in practice: Marriage rates have steadily declined over the past few decades, and now researchers from Cornell University are offering …
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Leo DiCaprio is the Everyman
Well, not quite; certainly not as far as the fame and fortune are concerned, or the looks. Or, for that matter, his choice of mainly blonde lingerie and swimsuit models …
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Moral Masculinity?
Maybe not so toxic after all? The role that hormones play in decision making has been debated for years and years. Many believe that testosterone, the main sex hormone found …
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Nice guys finish last
A new study, which looks at the satisfaction and longevity of relationships, suggests that nice guys (and gals) finish last – or finish first by finishing last (their relationships, that …
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Top 10 Sexiest Nations – and their sexiest politicians
The question has now been settled – by a completely unscientific opinion poll, but nevertheless… The people of Ukraine have been named as the sexiest in the world, according to …
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Will date for food
Wine me, dine me… actually just wine me, dine me: A new trend has emerged on the dating scene in which a person schedules a date with someone they aren’t really interested …
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The case for love socialism
A friend of mine on Facebook has indirectly turned my attention to this Medium piece from a few years back, which summarises the results of a not very scientific but …
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Boys Gone Wild on Brisbane Tinder, Part IV: Special Valentine’s Edition
This morning we’ve had the latest installment of Girls Gone Wild, so for the sake of equality of the (two) sexes I cannot but now present some eye candy for …
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Girls Gone Wild on Brisbane Tinder, Part XIII: Special Valentine’s Edition
You have all been very good regular readers of TDC recently, absorbing a lot of outrage, ridicule and cynicism emanating from these pages under the guise of impassioned political and …
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Now do Hitler
If it was the Soviet Russia, everyone would have needed to swipe right in order to be left: It’s amazing what kind of behaviour hot people can get away with on …
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40 times unlucky
I honestly don’t know how these things become news stories, even for the tabloids: A student who’s been on 40 “atrocious” dates in nine months has created a brilliant Tinder …
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I was a female Tinderer
Yesterday, a story caught my eye, which proved that people nowadays are so lazy, they will outsource just about anything to others – including their Tinder experience: Holly Bartter has …
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