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    Dan Juan

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  • How not to look cool on a date #2,313

    People often read this blog and think it's made up. I counter that with two arguments. One: if I was going to make things up the blog would be a lot more exciting than it is. A lot of the stories in the blog are unremarkable, but that's because I'm just telling you what really [...]

  • Silent speed dating: the future

    Not for the first time, I've had a million dollar dating idea that I am giving away for free because I can't be bothered to do anything about it. It was inspired by a story I read about Parisian women going window shopping for men. Although this appears to objectify men, I decided that I [...]

  • The first date

    Online first dates are weird. An evening spent with a total stranger, during which you are trying to work out if you could ever love them. This is an impossible task by definition, yet you can't help but try. So you're constantly re-evaluating their suitability, often on a minute-by-minute basis. I became helplessly aware of [...]

  • How much effort should you put in to find love?

    Y! Lifestyle's serial dater wonders if he's too quick to find fault with his dates Last night I was lying in bed flicking through the final pages of Jean Paul Sartre's Nausea. (Forgive me for starting this week's blog with the most pretentious opening line ever.) Don't laugh, I was. In it, a comment about [...]

  • Why women shouldn’t lie about their age on dating websites

    A girl friend of mine, Anna, is going through the daunting/depressing/exciting task of creating her first online dating profile. Naturally she turned to me for advice, as she knows I've been lurking among the internet desperados for a while. I gave her the standard tips: pick a nice selection of photos, don't show off, don't [...]

  • The best dating apps (that don’t exist yet)

    There's a new iPhone app called Bad Date Rescue which provides a fake incoming call giving users an excuse to "graciously bow out of a date that isn't going well". It's a good idea but it's hardly original - girls I go on dates with have been getting their friends to do this for years. [...]

  • Can you recover from a bad first impression?

    My date with Monica got off to a bad start — for her. We were both standing outside Angel tube station, not knowing what the other looked like, when I sent her a text saying I was next to the bank. I then watched an attractive leggy brunette, phone in hand, make a sheepish beeline [...]

  • Looking for a girl who looks like I do

    Among the various seedy tasks incumbent on the dating blogger is trawling the internet looking for quirky sites that might be worth testing out and writing about. A few months ago, I found one such site. It was called Find Your Face Mate and its unique matchmaking shtick was that of bringing together partners with [...]

  • Questions you should ask on dates

    Two weeks ago to improve my success with the ladies, I came up with some failsafe answers to questions I commonly get asked on dates. This week, as promised, I have switched roles and devised some good questions to ask. Their purpose is to find out if a girl is really "the one". I devised [...]

  • How to answer questions on a date

    Following last week's revelation that I am rubbish at giving sexy replies to common date questions, I have devised answers that I hope will improve my chances of securing romantic liaisons with women who ask me questions… What music do you like? It depends on my mood. Sometimes I want to devour the classics: Debussy, [...]

  • The questions I dislike answering on dates

    Prior to a recent date I'd arranged with a woman, a female friend enquired what questions I was planning to ask on the night. She assumed that I, as a seasoned dater, would arrive prepared with some ready-made date posers for the girl I was meeting - tried and trusted conversation openers that would prompt [...]

  • Gazed and confused

    The Welsh city of Newport is only really famous for its proximity to a big bridge and this song but now it's reportedly set to make dating history. According to the South Wales Argus, which I don't normally read, a pub in the town is going to host the UK's first eye gazing night. Eye [...]

  • Why online dating is so addictive

    My return to dating websites this week has been like getting reacquainted with a crack habit. That familiar warm, fuzzy feeling came flooding back as I perused the legions of smiling thumbnails, luring me back into their lonely world with hot promises of everlasting love. After a recent period of cold turkey from online dating, [...]

  • Is dating better when you’re doing something?

    One of my issues with dating is how samey it all is. I invariably go on dates to the same pubs in the same areas and chat about the same things to girls who all look and behave similarly. When you're a regular dater, this gets a bit tedious. So I was intrigued by a [...]

  • Losing the will to date

    I have a problem: I'm a dating blogger who is bored of dating. I'm like a Mozart who can't be bothered to play piano, or a Ron Jeremy who just fancies a snuggle, or Jeremy Clarkson on a tram. I am toothless, inert, not fit to do the one thing I've put been on the [...]

  • You’re dumped, does it matter why?

    Telling someone you no longer want to have sex with them is one of the most excruciating first world problems we may encounter. And the worst bit of any dumping is when the spurned lover asks for a reason why. So how very unhelpful that there is new website designed for that very purpose. WotWentWrong.com [...]

  • Why men are as jealous and competitive as women

    It's supposedly only women who get jealous and competitive about each other's sexiness. Like when a very attractive girl starts a new job and all the other women in the office hold a conference declaring her a devil whore, hell bent on giving blow jobs to all the men they've been flirting with, who must [...]

  • Why everyone needs a ladies’ man

    There are bags of crisps spread out on the table and we're sipping our first pints of the evening, engaging in standard manly pleasantries. Arsenal "should not have lost", the price of beer in this place "is obscene", my hairstyle is "trendy within the gay community". We check on each other's general welfare: James has [...]

  • A friendly comment

    If you ever look at the comments people add to my articles, two things will stand out. 1.) I am about as popular as Nick Clegg and 2.) A lot of the people commenting seem mentally unhinged. That's fully expected in the comments sections of websites, although I've always wondered what these keyboard warriors are [...]

  • ‘I’ve got the power’

    On Saturday night, a girl asked me to go back to her house for sex, which was quite surprising. Even more surprising is that I said no, as I found her manner of doing so rather unusual. I had been speaking to the girl, Cassie, for about 45 minutes at my friend Chris's party. The [...]