Some of Shortland Street's hottest stars have posed for the show's sauciest photo shoot.

Any new singleton, wary of dipping their toe into the murky water of online dating, must surely be even more cautious after two news stories this week highlighting the perils of such behaviour.

Superstar Sir Elton John and David Furnish are to marry Christmas week in a "small and intimate" ceremony, nine years after exchanging vows for their civil partnership.

Why do we feel so down when we get a whiff of rejection? We know in our hearts that we can't like everyone who likes us - just as everyone we happen to like can't like us.

It is after 10 years together that relationships are at their rockiest, a study claims. But hit 35 and you're in for extremely plain sailing.

Bob Jones writes: Female gullibility is essential for the continuation of the species, thus we must take the bad with the good.

Living back home with mum and dad - a sensible move full of focus and strategy - or a bleak admission to having lost your foothold in the climb up the mountain of adult life'?

Is rekindled love a delicate and tender flower - or a releasing of a genie from a bottle with a warning on the label?

If you must smooch in public, here are five rules to follow, says Hannah Betts.

We take a look at the other halves of the world's most famous Angels.

Matt Heath writes: My parents loved manners and as a result I get angry when friends don't place their cutlery with the handles at 5 o'clock pointing toward 11 o'clock.

A bad marriage really could lead to a broken heart, new research looking at how marriage quality affects cardiovascular health suggests.

Forget the man drought - New Zealand is suffering a friend famine.

Here are five pieces of advice for the somewhat preposterous long-distance couple, and here are the time-tested, pearls of wisdom we found

Academics think that kissing helps partners share bacteria, shoring up their immune systems and enabling them to better fight disease.

The prediction of recreational-only sex by 2050 shows up the impossible choices young women have to make.

Chinese programmer was so sick of being single that he bought 99 iPhone 6s to propose to his girlfriend. It didn't end well.

When Jamie and Louis, both transsexual, decided to marry, they also chose to allow TV cameras to record the often rocky run-up to the big day. They tell Kate Hilpern why they did it.

It is one of New York's most successful law firms, a company that has won US$3 billion ($3.85 billion) in payouts for sick Ground Zero workers, diet pill users and asbestos cancer sufferers.

Where one mystery's been solved, another has surfaced. A mystery bride has been found - but she has little idea how her wedding photos came to be on a USB stick.

Sex could become purely recreational by 2050 with large numbers of babies in the Western world born through IVF, the professor who invented the contraceptive pill says.

Society has always been fascinated by sex, and the internet gives us insight into previously unheard of sexual practices, portraying them as standard conduct, writes Lee Suckling.

15 myths about contraception - alongside the facts

Christchurch Romeo organises a flashmob on a tram to propose to his girlfriend.Here's how it went.

Mona Dotcom has staked a $23 million claim on the fortune of her estranged husband, Kim Dotcom, saying half of what was seized in the FBI-initiated raid belongs to her.