Madonna stopped by The Ellen Show Tuesday, confirming that while the things she says often do not come off well in print, her comments are always much drier and funnier on video.

Women in relationships with younger men is a hot-button topic that has come up more and more in the past ten years, from Demi and Ashton to the recent TLC special Extreme Cougar Wives. But new research of Victorian-era census records shows that there may have been more May-December relationships back then than now.

TLC has firmly established itself as the freakshow network, where Americans can gawk at people who are different, from the Duggars to Sister Wives to Extreme Couponing and My Strange Addiction. And now, on November 25, comes a one-hour special called Extreme Cougar Wives.

I'm closer to 40 than I am to 30 — not that you can go backwards — but I totally think that 18-year-old Taylor Lautner is hot. Is it okay for a grown woman to have a teenage crush?

Like most women, most of my dating life, I've dated older boys and men. It's almost what you're supposed to do, right? Men mature more slowly, they're less ready to settle down, they're less self-confident when they're younger. Older man are supposed to be more settled, more confident, more mature, more…

Ladies! Are you looking for a younger man? An investment opportunity? Both??? Julia Macmillan has just the thing for you: It's called toyboywarehouse.com. Macmillan, who is 40-something, launched the site 18 months ago, and is looking for an investor. She was disenchanted with sites like Match.com and…

Over on Salon, Carol Lloyd is pondering the pairing of women with older men, specifically, a recent study in Sweden which found that when women are 4 to 6 years younger than their male partners, they give birth to more kids. Martin Fieder, an anthropologist at the University of Vienna, speculates that men evolved a…