Posted by: pinkpangea on: September 10, 2009
Western women are told to beware of marriage proposals from Egyptian men, who may only be looking to emigrate and profit. Egyptian men in areas highly saturated by tourists may be far from home and under less scrutiny from their families and able to pursue the carefree Western women on vacation. Blacklist websites warn women [...]
Posted by: pinkpangea on: August 7, 2009
According to a British study, which will soon be published in the Journal of Population Economics, men and women are more likely to move in together or marry if they are sure their partner will help out with chores and taking care of the children. With this standard for judging partners, Australian men fell [...]
Posted by: pinkpangea on: August 3, 2009
On a train ride in India, a Canadian woman traveler expects to hear a romantic story of how her seat mate met her husband, but instead learns about arranged Indian marriages. Confronted with this new concept of Indian love, the young woman reflects on the different relationships in her own life.
“Love and Marriage on [...]
Posted by: pinkpangea on: July 30, 2009
Gorgeous American woman, Lauren McLaren’s complaint that she was not able to get a date in London does not faze British Toby Young Last. From his experience in living in New York, Last found that dating American women was extremely stressful because it meant an evening of unabashed judgment. Finding American women to be obsessed [...]
Posted by: pinkpangea on: July 19, 2009
Often living with their mothers into their 30s, Italian men continue to see their mothers everyday once married. Two women describe their marriages to men who are married to their mothers, and try to make sense of their attachments.
“Mamma Mia“: Guardian.co.uk, May 14, 2002.
Posted by: pinkpangea on: July 7, 2009
The Egyptian government recently published a pamphlet for imams called, Sexual Harassment: Causes and Treatments, which explains how to approach the increased sexual harassment of women in their congregations. The pamphlet includes causes for the worsening of sexual harassment in Egypt, such as declining religious consciousness, sexual images on the internet and television, women’s [...]
