After almost half a year of blogging everyday I’m taking an extended leave of absence. I plan to be back blogging everyday in about a year.

Some of you may have noticed the heavy youtube content and less in-depth written pieces. I gotta admit it’s undeniably hard to find the time each day to give a full in-depth post on a dating issue.

As a result, over the next year I’ll be thinking deep thoughts and leisurely writing about my dating insights (without publishing them) and will have a steady stream of written advice and observations about dating in NYC and the world when I get back.

Thank you to all my loyal readers, and please return back to Metrocards & Condoms on September 1, 2008 for more of the same.

- The Love Doctor

Thanks to all my readers!

Who ever knew this little blog would ever reach 10,000 pageviews.

I’m happy I can help ease the pain and increase the fun (or at least the humor) of dating in NYC and the world for all who will listen.

- The Love Doctor

The power of a woman… there ain’t nothing stronger….

A great article from Alternet:

Is Monogamy Natural?

By Anneli Rufus, AlterNet. Posted July 25, 2007.

A lifetime of love versus a quick roll with a stranger. It’s funny how we can have two seemingly opposite urges at the same time.

Why Do Doctors Get to Decide When a Woman Is Old Enough to Have Her ‘Tubes Tied’?
Bonnie Zylbergold

A hot naked chick hit on Joe Quirk at Burning Man. That’s what he calls her: a hot naked chick. He’s married. But his wife wasn’t there.

“I was in the middle of a desert,” he remembers. “Nobody would ever know.”

It’s funny how we can have two seemingly opposite urges at the same time. A lifetime of love. A quick roll with a total stranger.

He said no.

Because he loves his wife. Because he wouldn’t want to ruin his life by losing her. But choices such as the one he made that day on the sand aren’t totally matters of morality. They’re not about cartoon angels and devils sparring on our shoulders.

They’re science talking.

Vaunted in the mainstream media, two new reports from the Pew Research Center report and the National Survey of Families and Households indicate that couples become bored and unhappy sooner than was previously thought: more like three years into their togetherness than seven.

Well, sure, says Quirk, whose book Sperm Are From Men, Eggs Are From Women (Running Press, 2006) details what he calls “the science of relationships.” A three-year itch makes plain biological sense, he says. (keep reading)

As a follow up to my post Why You Should Never Ask Them How Many People They’ve Slept With , here’s the forever famous scene in Clerks that makes the case all the better than I ever could.

Lol…enjoy.

Ms. Dynamite talking about all the things that shouldn’t matter…

Ms. Dynamite…I’m single…. please give me a call…