June Carbone (Missouri) and Naomi Cahn (GWU): Red v. Blue Marriage. Carolyn McConnell (Washington): What's in a Name? The Case for the Disestablishment of Marriage. Brien K. Ashdown (Hobart and William Smith), Jana Hackathorn (Murray State) and Eddie M. Clark (SLU): In and Out of the Bedroom: Sexual Satisfaction in the Marital Relationship (and a response). Stephanie Coontz on mating games: Changing rules for sex and marriage. Kate Manne (Harvard): Love Actually. The introduction to The Paradox of Love by Pascal Bruckner (and more on seduction). Love and death: Romantic love needs the promise of a future to survive — but that future must have an end. Everything I needed to know about modern love I learned from the Oxford English Dictionary quarterly updates. Ruth Sarah Lee (Harvard): A Legal Analysis of Romantic Gifts. Does online dating really work? It has not only shed its stigma, it has surpassed all forms of matchmaking other than meeting through friends. A look at the terrible thrill of looking at the ugliest people on dating websites. The single life: Some people never find the love of their lives — and live to tell about it.
