Red roses remain the most popular traditional Valentine's Day gift, say florists stocking up for weekend sales as suitors scramble to express their enduring love.

It's called rape culture, silly, writes Rachel Wong. You know, when it's considered cultured to rape and degrade women and then blame it all on them?

The author Simon Garfield poses exactly this question in To the Letter: A Journey Though a Vanishing World and supplies some excellent answers.

"The blood-soaked conspiracy of Valentine's Day, driven by the oppressive chocolate capitalists, has arrived once again," declared the group.

A heartfelt birthday message from Johnny Cash to his beloved wife June has been voted the greatest love letter of all time.

People who Facebook-post frequently about their relationships actually have better relationships than people who don't assault their friends, research suggests.

Is love just a troublesome artifice we've created for ourselves, or a fundamental part of human existence, to be cherished even when it hurts us?

Staff at a chain of DIY hardware stores in London have been told to read Fifty Shades of Grey and prepare for a massive rise in demand for rope, cable ties and tape.

Serial killer Charles Manson's supposed budding romance with a woman 53 years his junior is off after it emerged she just wanted his corpse for display.

Should we be an open book all the time to our nearest and dearest? Does the definition of nearest mean there should be no secrets between you?

"It's not teenage sex, but it's very satisfying. We love to experiment. We love to dance. There is a lot of cuddling and snuggling."

The wife of a senior insurance manager caught in a sex romp with an office junior learned of the extramarital activities on Facebook.

The two Christchurch office workers who unwittingly put on a public sex show have stayed away from work today.

In 2015 it is still considered acceptable to define women by their relationship with men, writes Dana Johannsen.

What a creepy display from the patrons of the Carlton pub in Christchurch who group-watched and broadcast a free live sex display to the world, writes Pam Corkery.

When I first met Velvel, he was peeking out from a cardboard box in the back seat of my boyfriend’s Saturn wagon.

Malcolm Jondahl looked up at his bride-to-be and said sorry. The 35-year-old from Whangarei was minutes from exchanging vows with his partner of three years when he collapsed at the creekside venue of their wedding in rural Northland.

I've been using the service for 24 hours, and I gotta wonder: How can you not fall in love with him? writes Caitlin Dewey.

A stuntman and his fiancee have won a $70,000 dream wedding after shedding a combined 28kg in a ZM radio competition.

A Northland couple had a dramatic start to married life after the groom had to be brought back to life minutes before exchanging vows with his beloved.

Meanwhile, the safest position is also the most traditional one.

Couples in a rural town in Denmark have agreed to try to have more babies over the next few years as part of a deal with the council to keep public services running.

Couples are more likely to give up smoking, visit the gym, or lose weight if they get healthy together, a study has found.

A relationship is a big investment in our lives. We may think we are not influenced, yet there are "rules" out there which often create unreasonable doubt in our hearts.

Gwyneth Paltrow has opened up about her romances with Brad Pitt and Ben Affleck, insisting one was too good for her while the other wasn't "in a good place".

Spy agency MI5 has for the first time made it into the top 10 of the UK's most gay-friendly employers.

NZ Herald's anonymous single girl of summer tests out instant dating app Tinder in her challenge to find love.

12 Questions asks the good, the great and the interesting to ponder the big things in life - faith, hope, failure, love and money. Here are the best quotes from the year on sex.

I'm Lonnae O'Neal now, but I was Lonnae O'Neal Parker for more than two decades. The pain is for a body of work I produced as my three-named self.