
Verity Johnson: Time to talk sexual consent
There is a problem among young people, and probably everyone else, over what constitutes consent, writes Verity Johnson.
There is a problem among young people, and probably everyone else, over what constitutes consent, writes Verity Johnson.
Sheril Kirshenbaum, the author of The Science of Kissing, takes us on a romantic trip through history and around the world.
Director Woody Allen rarely speaks about his relationship with his wife, Soon-Yi Previn, but he did this week, telling NPR that "she responded to someone paternal".
The Baby Boomer generation is renowned for challenging norms around sex and age and this has continued in recent decades.
You can't just put your marriage on auto-plot for two decades and expect to pick up where you left off.
Laura Husson lives in the Isle of Wight, husband Chris lives in New Zealand. They've been married for two years and now Laura is pregnant.
In letters so big that it attracted a big audience of passing admirers, Nathan guided Esther to the sand art, dropped onto one knee and waited for her answer.
Following the hacking of cheating website Ashley Madison, many people have been left wondering if their spouse's name was among those in the site's database.
It seems George Clooney and his British wife Amal can't get enough of Italy.
Some ladies-in-the-know have dished out their advice on the best way to ask out your #WomanCrush and how to turn that date into a girlfriend.
At a time when more people marry later on in life or stay unmarried, matchmakers, traditionally called nakodo in Japan, have been gaining public attention again lately as the nation's population continues to decline.
As thousands of men are threatened with exposure as users of an extramarital website, Helen Croydon goes undercover to meet them.
There are two types of people in the dating world: those who are coupled and third wheels.
"What those hackers are doing is brilliant. Let the cheaters sweat. They only have themselves to blame if the whole world finds out their dirty little secret."
Fast food giant foots the bill for what is a strong contender for wedding of the year.
The ringing of the fire alarm was followed by a ring of another kind at a Whangarei primary school yesterday, as a firefighter proposed to his teacher sweetheart.
The hackers accessed "customers' secret sexual fantasies," "nude pictures and conversations," "credit card transactions" with real names. They promise to leak it all soon.
The app is designed to make sure there's no trouble between partners the morning after the night before, as they film themselves giving consent.
The 26-year-old has fathered ten children by nine women in the past 13 months, giving his sperm free of charge to women he met through Facebook.
Was your insanely successful older sibling born to achieve? Is your youngest child pre-programmed to seek the limelight?
A fascinating new analysis of family data suggests that after a certain point, the risk of divorce starts to rise again as you get older.
Ten prison staff have been fired over inappropriate relationships - in some cases sex - with inmates.
Middle-aged couples are more likely to row about money than anything else, a survey shows.
Military life is hard, especially when spouses are deployed to far off places. From experience, Lee Suckling shares the worst things to say to military spouses.
A sociologist at the University of Utah has found the best age to get married if you want to avoid divorce.
What is good flirting? Researchers received - perhaps unsurprisingly - differing responses from men and women.
"My husband recently confessed to a brief affair when our children were small. I'm not sure why I feel so angry, as it's a tiny blip in many years of happiness."
Online, no rules means people can be rude and crude. Bumble is out to do something about all of that.
"Human rights is my passion," says Mary Brennan, a Wellington dominatrix and escort agency owner. "That's why I'm in the sex industry."