Anatomy Lesson: Escaping The Friend Zone

"If you don't kiss me right now, I'm going to be incredibly upset with you."

Over the last couple of years, we’ve been talking about how to improve your dating life, from making yourself look better, improving your ability to approach and charm friends and strangers, fixing the attitudes and self-limiting beliefs that hold you back and even how to find more sex. However, while it’s good to learn about [...]

Ask Dr. NerdLove: Someone Set Us Up The Bomb

Ask Dr. NerdLove

Hi Dr. Nerdlove, I only just found your column, but I love that there’s somebody out there giving nerdy men encouraging, thoughtful dating advice that also takes a respectful look at gender relations. I relate to a lot of what you say about “leveling up,” making yourself attractive by being fun and improving your life. [...]

Ask Dr. NerdLove: Wrong Place, Wrong Time

Ask Dr. NerdLove

Okay, so I’ve been focusing on digging myself out of my inaction, depression, and general negativity. I’m feeling better, happier, more hopeful. I had a great date the other day with a lovely, smart, dorky girl I met through OkC, and we had the most romantic and totally ad hoc time ever. Now that I’m [...]

Take It Like A Man

"Your heartfelt pleading has made me realize just how attracted I am to you," said nobody, ever.

If you go by a lot of the advice being handed out to guys about dating, you would think that getting dates and getting laid is simple: act as alpha as possible, remember that women are gold-digging, status-climbing whores who only want the highest status males (and will ignore, use and/or cheat on everyone else) [...]

Ask Dr. NerdLove: Off The Market

Ask Dr. NerdLove

Hi Doc, I have a problem I sincerely hope you can help with, because it’s been a problem that I just can’t seem to fix. I’m a girl of the nerdy persuasion. I am heavy into tabletop RPG and video games, I love sci-fi, and I’m fairly introverted. Making new friends is very, very difficult [...]