Does Dale Koppel in Her Book "The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Online Dating" Actually Recommend Unsafe Sex as Well as Dishonesty? Judge For Yourself

A slice from the review of the online dating book by Koppel:

"I’m unclear why this is “the intelligent woman’s guide” since some of her advice does not sound like an intelligent woman’s decision making. For example, she shares her cavalier attitude about asking her lovers about STDs, getting blood tests and using condoms. While each person has to make their own decisions about these issues, I think it’s irresponsible for an author — who is then considered an “expert” by the media — to say, “I let the man decide if he wants to use a condom or not.”"

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Love For Wits - Most Adept Intelligent Dating Site for Smart or Witty People

What is *the* best site if you are really into dating smart people online?  As of late, you were  stuck between drab Brainiac and that English site for Mensa-level humans, or else you were bravely fishing in the nerd ponds.  Only now, there's a new player on the scene.  Thank God!  And here is a unique viewpoint on this Love For Wits place by a blogger who hates dating sites in general and finds them "sleazy":

"What do I mean by "sleaze"? It's the LOUD feel to the sites themselves, as if I'm watching a slick advert put on by Dow Chemical or BP or some corporation equally abominable. Plenty of Fish is a bit more sedate in terms of appearance (though tacky!), but based on feedback from friends it should be renamed "Plenty of Fools" (or F**K Heads, depending on who you talk to); and though it's hearsay, the horror tales regarding yet another icky dating site, e-Harmony, convinced me to run screaming."

But she goes on to say:

"An associate of mine recently introduced me to another dating site, and naturally I thought, oh yeah, right, but the name, Love For Wits, attracted me, and after I clicked to their home page I got a good laugh at their tag line: YES, THERE IS INTELLIGENT LIFE ON EARTH AND IT'S ON LOVE FOR WITS.COM SEARCHING FOR OTHER INTELLIGENT LIFE. This pulled me in. I can't resist something different, apparently intelligent, and amusing at the same time; and for a dating site, this was RADICAL. How dare they attempt to separate themselves from the greater mass of humanity!"

More on this here.

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Online Dating Service for "Ugly People" Goes Live - Is This Intelligent or Stupid?

We could not believe it either, but it's TRUE.  An entrepreneur type in the U.K. has started a site for people looking to date ugly people.  Attractive types need not apply!

As follows from Opposing Views:

"Just launched: a British Web site billing itself as the first ever dating service for ugly people. TheUglyBugBall.co.uk brings people together who've identified themselves as less than attractive (thankfully, there isn't an outside agency determining whether these people are in fact as ugly as they think they are). UglyBug's founder, Howard James, says, “It’s a sad fact that up to half of the UK is made up of ugly people, yet amazingly nobody has ever thought of providing a dating service for them."

Party on.

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