What do TV preseason forecasts, penis enhancement pills, and abstinence-only education have in common? Answer: They don't work. Regardless of your political or religious views on the effectiveness of virginity pledges, of your conviction that you can "add four inches" to your package with a pill or cream, or of...
Posted July 22, 2010 | 14:05:38 (EST)
Charming, elegant, and downright sexy, vampires have been the monster-of-choice for... well, ever. In looking at the psychology of vampires, these are the top ten reasons they are so fascinating:
1. Vampires are loners, but not lonely. Often people feel alienated, feel special, different, misunderstood at some point in their...
Posted April 29, 2010 | 15:36:47 (EST)
How have you been having sex without these? How? Catch up with the times mister! These sexual must-haves are the only thing between you and mind-blowing sex. What are you waiting for?*
Posted February 22, 2010 | 18:49:50 (EST)
Just last week, America's first condom store, Condomania, opened its database of penis sizes and released these unique rankings of the 50 states and the 20 most populated U.S. cities by average penis size. Previously, the largest formal survey of penis sizes was conducted in 1948 by the famous Kinsey...
Posted December 3, 2009 | 14:32:45 (EST)
Dear Doctor,
I found a link to a site called www.clips4sale.com on my boyfriend's computer. It's a site showing feet mashing food (like donuts, cake, fruit), breaking electronics, and putting out cigarette butts....I'm a little freaked out, what does this mean about him? Should I confront him?
Freaked out...
Posted November 3, 2009 | 18:52:37 (EST)
I knew it. Any chick capable of dealing with a tornado, juggling three men with lots of emotional baggage, a dog-lover and brave enough to confront witches and blustering men hiding behind loudspeakers had to have a cool story we didn't know about. She's got her canine companion, some sassy...
Posted October 7, 2009 | 12:39:16 (EST)
How could you not love a book that starts "singing" David Bowie's "Changes" ("This is the story of my "ch..ch..changes, which took me from insanity to clarity")? In her book iWant: My Journey from Addiction and Overconsumption to a Simpler, Honest Life (Health Communications, Inc., 2009), the television journalist and...
Posted September 25, 2009 | 18:05:43 (EST)
By Belisa Vranich and Reedu Taha
Call it stubborn pride or male anxiety, but mention neutering Fido in front of a man and he'll cross his legs ... "uh, do we have to?" Since the ancient Spartans fought with swords and had six-pack abs the male libido has been associated...
Posted September 18, 2009 | 18:25:56 (EST)
By: Dr. Belisa Vranich
Michael Cordera, Esq.
Police officer Jared Rodriguez was doing pretty well hot-tubbing and feeling up his twin brother's girlfriend until she realized she was being duped. Add to this already-in-daytime-TV-production that his wily scheme...
Posted November 10, 2008 | 11:46:54 (EST)
Apart from the understandable anxiety over lifestyle change (from limiting yourself to window shopping to foreclosing your home), I keep getting asked why we're seeing extreme reactions and herding mentality* regarding the financial crises. Real losses and risks aside, how much does psychology have to do with it?
The Seven...
Posted November 3, 2008 | 10:47:57 (EST)
Don't look now, but there is someone, someone nearby, waiting to steal (or at least borrow) your spouse from right under your nose.
What is the good news? Or even just the new news? Turns out infidelity is an equal opportunity employer; women are turning to men who don't...
Posted October 12, 2008 | 19:56:49 (EST)
Disney's Golden Child Miley Cyrus is dating an older man? Heavens, first naked pictures and now this? I know what comes to mind -- those creepy polygamous cult pictures of thin, nondescript, middle-aged men holding bonneted Laura Ingles-like tweens at their sides. Or the "granddaddy" of them all, 63 years...
Posted September 19, 2008 | 16:20:41 (EST)
Are you a morning person or a night person? Sweet or salty? Cardio or weights? Cats or dogs? Whether you consider yourself an "animal person" or not, the real story behind former Mets minor leaguer Joseph Petchka's killing of his girlfriend's tabby is that you can't profess to be a...
Posted September 5, 2008 | 20:21:44 (EST)
All week long I've had emails with a variation of the following:
"Am I a slut or do I have a sex addiction?"
Rather that give you just my opinion, I gathered some friends and colleagues -- experts in the field of sex in one way or another -- to...
Posted September 4, 2008 | 19:26:47 (EST)
As of late, I feel as if we've gone from liking clean smells--think Murphy's Oil Soap, Lemon Pledge, and even the faint smell of bleach--to craving products with aromas of tangy fruity blends that sound more like Jamba Juice than detergents.
Perhaps beauty and shower products are the most...
Posted August 3, 2008 | 20:48:31 (EST)
Cal quit his job as a blog commentator at CNN in Washington, DC when he became so disillusioned by the hypocrisy of media that he couldn't stand being part of it anymore. He came back to New York and back to making large sculptures for the Madagascar Institute for Burning...
Posted July 27, 2008 | 08:36:46 (EST)
Think you know women? Think your man is all that simple? Think again. Sure, some of these are generalizations you may not fit into, but shedding any light on the topic of gender differences can make figuring out your sister in law, boss or stepson a tiny bit easier.
...Posted July 20, 2008 | 08:19:02 (EST)
Although I can answer most "Dear Doc" questions I receive to some extent or another, some stump even me. This week I got this one - any suggestions?
I just joined a gym in the neighborhood and noticed a really skinny girl working out. By the time I get there,...
Posted July 6, 2008 | 08:30:17 (EST)
"That dog is ugly," a girl from the high school across the street spat at me as she walked by with her friends. I've heard it before - sometimes it still hurts my feelings, especially when I think about how much better Brenda is than when we* first found her....
Posted June 29, 2008 | 09:09:54 (EST)
This past week on the Today Show, Tiki Barber asked Dr. Ian Kerner* and me about the book 365 Nights: A Memoir Of Intimacy. In the book, a woman gives her husband the gift of sex every day for an entire year. Most male friends I've talked to about...

Posted October 11, 2010 | 11:47:15 (EST)