Love/Hate Reads
Love/Hate Reads: 'Sex Tips for Girls,' Revisited
Cynthia Heimel's beautifully haywire and slutty dating book insists that you can be unsure, interested, and curious; you can get yourself into an experience only because you want to have it.
Love/Hate Reads: 'He's Just Not That Into You,' Revisited
After relying on it in the early aughts, I wanted to see if "He's Just Not That Into You" still worked if I simply ignored the gendered language.
Love/Hate Reads: 'Rules of the Game,' Revisited
Neil Strauss's 2007 pick-up artist guide is less a dating book and more an RPG, pro-magician propaganda document, and catalyst of the incel community.
Love/Hate Reads: 'Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus,' Revisited
Few books have shaped our thinking about relationships like this 1992 bestseller and its iconic oversimplification, which continues to echo through in all the ways we meme-ify the human experience.
Love/Hate Reads: 'Act Like A Lady, Think Like a Man,' Revisited
Steve Harvey's smash 2009 dating book suggests it's time to think about marrying a man "two years [after] you first spotted him at the gas station."
