Despite enormous changes in patterns of dating and courtship in twenty-first-century America, contemporary understandings of romance and intimacy remain firmly rooted in age-old assumptions of gender difference. These tenacious beliefs now vie with cultural messages of gender equality that stress independence, self-development, and egalitarian practices in public and private life. Through interviews with heterosexual and LGBTQ individuals, Ellen Lamont’s The Mating Game explores how people with diverse sexualities and gender identities date, form romantic relationships, and make decisions about future commitments as they negotiate uncertain terrain fraught with competing messages about gender, sexuality, and intimacy.

Pamela C. Regan’s The Mating Game: A Primer on Love, Sex, and Marriage, Third Edition is the only introductory text about human mating relationships aimed specifically at a university audience. Encompassing a wide array of disciplines, this comprehensive review of theory and empirical research takes an integrated perspective on the fundamental human experiences of attraction and courtship; mate selection and marriage; and love and sex. Strongly grounded in methodology and research design, the book offers relevant examples and anecdotes along with ample pedagogy that will spark debate and discussion on provocative and complex topics.

Meet Ivana ('call me Vanny') Jones, a sexy, beautiful, warm-hearted professional chess-player. She has a problem: she's only attracted to guys who can beat her... so what's she to do when a chess amateur, the Russian billionaire Boris Bogolyubov, proposes marriage?Not only that, but as Vanny tries to achieve her lifelong dream of becoming a chess grandmaster, she develops a crush on Norwegian sex-god Sven while also falling for a stunning and adoring Frenchwoman. Meanwhile, Vanny's hoping a revolutionary new drug treatment will save her best friend Charlotte's life.Set in London, Monaco, Budapest, Helsinki, Odessa, New York... and Leicester, this sparkily written, passionate, emotional and entertaining novel will rock your boat... even if you've never shouted'Checkmate!'

Romance novelist Mallory Gennaro, who uses the pen name "Zoe Wilde, " is offered an all-expense-paid trip to England by British Ph.D. Dexter Harrington, who wants "Zoe" to contribute her expertise to his paper titled "Sex and the Human Species." Mallory hasn't told Dexter her only experience with romance is fictional, but in this case, the usual rules in the game of love don't apply.

A sensuous, exhilarating ride through romance that takes an intimate look into the passions and pitfalls of modern urban life. Trey, Vince, and Erika are best friends -- all single -- who live in Washington D. C. and are on the lookout for love. Blessed with intelligence, successful careers, and good looks, one would think the dating scene would be a snap for them. However, despite their charm, wit, and acheivements, none of their diverse approaches to the dating game are getting results. In The Mating Game, Jonathan Luckett examines the lives of these three friends who seem to have it all -- except someone to share it with. Trey is an often arrogant ladies' man with a quick tongue and dapper good looks. His friend and alter ego Vince is the ruggedly handsome, hopelessly romantic Renaissance man who is searching high and low for his ideal mate. And then there is the confidant, beautiful, no-nonsense Erika, who thinks she has found the man of her dreams, only to find out the opposite. However, when two mysterious women enter the scene, their lives -- and their friendships -- are turned upside down. From the streets of Washington and New York to the steamy French Quarter of New Orleans, Trey, Vince, and Erika leave a trail of pandemonium in their wake as they search for love, sometimes in all the wrong places.