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Super Bowl ads love to present guys as horny dolts and women as sexpots or shrill harpies.

However, this year Google brought out its softer side and definitely played up the "aww" factor with its "Parisian Love" commercial.

Starting off with an American guy who searches Google about studying abroad in Paris, the ad goes through the stages of a love from courtship to baby-making in less than 60 seconds.

And while the commercial solely relies on this elusive typist, our hearts skip beats as we see him Google the translation for "You are cute." While some guys may think that this is pretty lame, this Google search story really hit home with the Lemondrop gals. And with Valentine's Day coming up fast, it might give guys some ideas on how to woo their ladies. Enjoy!

Esquire's annual Survey of the American Woman 2010 has officially been posted, and this year, they're picking our brains for a worthy cause: For every woman who coughs up her innermost thoughts, the magazine will donate $1 to earthquake relief in Haiti. (So go fill it out. It takes less time than a Facebook quiz)

While the guys are waiting with bated breath for our answers, we get a kick out of the questions they chose -- and the insight it provides into the male mind. You can almost imagine them squirreled away in a room somewhere scratching their heads about what really goes on in ours.

And, from what we can glean, here is what men most want to know about women in 2010:

1) How savvy are we about driving and car repair? (No fewer than three questions ask us about changing a tire, changing the oil, and whether we know how to parallel park.)

2) How do we think they should behave on dates? (As evidenced by questions like: Who should pay? Should he hold the door? Pull out your chair? Help you with your coat? And, by the way, how soon are we willing to have sex?!)

3) And, of course, who would we do if we were secretly lesbians?

Keep dreaming, guys.

Tell us: If Lemondrop were designing a survey to find out What Guys Everywhere Really Think, what would you most want us to ask them?

Because, so far, we have just one question: Why does it take you so long to poop?

What do we love about "Into Time," the newest site from Web artist (and Lemondrop favorite) Rafael Rozendaal? Pretty colors? Simple geometry? Truth is, we're not entirely sure why we're so enthralled with the site. But like Rozendaal's other sites that we've featured, "Into Time" is hypnotic, mysterious and just engaging enough to keep us absorbed for a lot longer than you might think.

Every week, the gentlemen over at GuySpeak answer questions from women the only way they know how: in guy style. Then they handpick some of their favorites and send them over to us here at Lemondrop to answer (read: fix) them in girl style. We call it GuySpeak/GirlSpeak. This week -- what do you do with a boyfriend who's wonderful but still lives at home?


Read on for our guy vs. girl advice.

A Courtney Love exclusive: What she'd wear to her wedding, her take on Lady Gaga and so much more. (StyleList)

Valentine's flowers at the office: fun or embarrassing? Cast your vote. (TresSugar)

Metallic shadow, a shocking pink lip, and tousled waves were Grammy favorites: Re-create your own red-carpet beauty trends at home. (DailyMakeover)
The top 10 mistakes guys make: There are just some first-date deal-breakers we're just not willing to look past, boys. (PowderRoomTalk)
Mr. Right might not be the man you want long term, necessarily: how to fall in love with Mr. Good Enough. (YourTango)
Cooking bacon to a perfection is an art form in itself. Learn how to do it in the oven like a pro. (TheKitchn)

Amy Spencer is a dating expert and the author of "Meeting Your Half-Orange: An Utterly Upbeat Guide to Using Dating Optimism to Find Your Perfect Match" (Running Press). We asked her the dating questions that continue to baffle us.

Lemondrop asks: How can you tell if a guy is stringing you along?

Amy answers: My take is trust your gut. It's your radar for the wrong guy -- I call it your "wrong-dar" -- and it will tell you when you're being jerked around and not being treated as well as you deserve to be. If you're not feeling your sexiest, coolest, funniest, warmest, most natural self around a guy, something's not right.

If you feel yanked, you are. You deserve better. If he just wants to take things slow, a guy will say something like, "I don't have that much time to devote to a serious relationship just yet, so I can only hang out with you once a week." He should still make you feel special and cared for in the meantime. He'll let you know, for instance, if there's no one else and say something like, "You're the only one I'm dating, I just don't want to be boyfriend-girlfriend yet."

There's new news about what gets women turned on -- and what gets them off, which always piques our interest.

There's no better person to explain these orgasmic breakthroughs than our special guest blogger Ian Kerner, author of "She Comes First: The Thinking Man's Guide to Pleasuring a Woman," out in paperback for the first time this week.

In fact, check back early and often -- during our countdown to Valentine's Day, that holiest of holy get-it-on holidays, the sex doctor will be in.

In fact, Kerner will be guest-blogging and offering his free advice -- including answers to your most pressing sex questions -- all week. For now, he shares four things that put the "Oh!" in orgasm.

1. Your brain needs to turn off for your orgasm to turn on. Researchers in the Netherlands found that the key to getting a woman to the heights of orgasmic bliss is a deep sense of relaxation -- and a lack of anxiety. All in the name of science, researchers at the University of Groningen scanned the brains of women and men while they were manually stimulated to orgasm by their partners. The scans showed that, for women, the parts of the brain responsible for processing fear, anxiety and emotion slowed down the more aroused they became, producing a trance-like state when they climaxed. Says Dr. Gert Holstege of women's sexual wiring: "What this means is that deactivation, letting go of all fear and anxiety, might be the most important thing, even necessary, to have an orgasm." Men's gray matter, on the other hand, showed far less change.

So, how you do turn off in order to turn on? More on that after the jump.

Everybody knows that Alt+Tab is your best friend on the job; let's be honest, who would get through the work day without a little Outlook-to-Facebook toggling?

The thing is, most of us try not to get caught. And we keep it PG-13. This banker who appeared on Australian news? Not so much. Even as his colleague chats him up on the other side of his monitor and cameras roll for the evening broadcast, his need for NSFW browsing remains unstoppable.

Best part? His facial expression when he turns around and realizes it might just be his last day at the office. ENJOY!