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If the new crop of television shows is anything to go by, then it seems the allure of the single girl with her sparkly high heels and desperate man-chasing tribulations, is no longer holding our attention. Instead, one-night stands and Cosmopolitans seem to have been replaced with something TV execs think is a little more interesting and relevant: wives.

There's The Real Housewives of New York (and the embarrassing spin-offs of Atlanta, Los Angeles, New Jersey and Orange County); Arranged Marriage (a new reality show centring on women desperate to get hitched as soon as possible), and the latest Channel Ten hit show The Good Wife - a story about a wife who, despite her ex-politician husband's philandering ways, sticks by him at all costs (including the release of a video of him sucking the toes of a 20-year-old call girl).

All this (especially the success of The Good Wife), combined with the latest spate of mistresses, explosive affairs and high divorce rate, has many asking the following question: what exactly are the characteristics of a "good wife"? And ... is it the wife's fault if her husband has an affair?

Ladies, brace yourselves ... Apparently it's our fault that we're being used and refused by the blokes before being f----- and chucked like yesterday's news. Yep, it seems we can quit blaming the formidable "man drought" situation; the fact that there aren't enough men in our town/city/country, or that all men on this planet are only into one thing, and it's not our awesome personalities.

Aussie relationships psychologist John Aiken says in his latest book titled Accidentally Single, that there are indeed 15 reasons as to why so many of us are still single ...

There's a riveting scene in the new George Clooney flick Up In The Air that features a conversation between Clooney's 23-year-old colleague Natalie (who has just been dumped by her boyfriend via text message), and his latest love interest, 34-year-old Alex (who appears to be single and up for anything).

Natalie, teary-eyed over the fact she should be married and with a kid on the way by now (yes, she's 23), starts recounting her stringent checklist that states the qualities her Mr Right should possess: "White collar, college graduate, loves dogs and funny movies," she says dreamily. "[He's] six foot one. Brown hair. Kind eyes. Works in finance, but is outdoorsy, you know on the 'weekends' ... In a perfect world, he drives a Four Runner and the only thing he loves more than me is his golden lab. Oh ... and a nice smile."

"What about you?" Natalie asks Alex, who hesitates, and then replies that, by the time you reach 34, all the physical requirements go pretty much out the window.

"You secretly pray he'll be taller than you. Not an asshole would be nice ... Hopefully some hair on his head ... but it's not exactly a deal breaker any more. Nice smile. Yep. A nice smile just might do it" ...

Thank goodness for the '60s and the invention of bell-bottoms, the pill and, most importantly, the fact that women were told they could finally own their own sexuality.

"Hooray!" the femmes rejoiced. "Finally it's ours!" After all, it wasn't exactly fair that someone else owned it instead.

But I've got to wonder: of the women nowadays who believe they own their own sexuality (because they sleep with plenty of men and engage in one-night stands), who do they think owned it before? The men? Their parents? The local council?

The trouble is that it seems there are a whole lot of WOTS (women owning their sexuality) who are confused as to what exactly the definition entails.

Originally designed as a statement to give women the feeling of being able to "choose" their own sexual path without being demeaned by society or having to suppress their sexual urges, sadly nowadays it seems the message has been entirely misconstrued.

Women are dishing out sexual favours and blow jobs like party tricks (everywhere from hotel bathrooms to strangers' bedrooms), while the men are readily lapping up this whole idea of supposed female empowerment, laughing and applauding their way from the club to the bedroom ...

Another week, another story about a jaded ex-mistress taking revenge on the bloke who shagged her while he was dating/married/shagging someone else. This time it's a woman by the name of YaVaughnie Wilkins, a 41-year-old writer/actor (aren't they all?) who claims she was "the other woman" in a relationship with tech mogul and White House adviser Charles Phillips.

The difference between Wilkins and the slew of jaded mistresses who've recently come out of the woodwork is that, instead of selling her story to a tabloid, she let the proof in the sexual pudding speak for itself by purchasing giant billboards all over the US ...

Hello bloggers and welcome to 2010! And what a year it's been so far. In the past few weeks there have been three startling revelations in the news relating to a few subjects which are often discussed here at Ask Sam headquarters.

The first is courtesy of researchers at the University of California who took the time to discover that blondes have something going on that the brunettes don't. (Surprise, surprise.) Through extensive scientific research they discovered that, unlike brunettes or redheads, blondes seem to live in a "bubble" and have a "warlike" attitude. Hmph.

The second revelation follows hotly on the heels of the Tiger Woods saga. Experts, authors, celebrities and past mistresses have all weighed in on the issue of "sex addiction", pushing the topic out from under the proverbial rug and into the mainstream.

Yet the big question on everyone's lips is this: does Woods really suffer from a "sex addiction"? Or is it all just PR spin so that, instead of referring to him as a lying, cheating cad, we just feel sorry for the poor sod? And, when does cheating stop being something horny blokes do, and start being considered as full-blown sex-addiction? ...

Wow. What a year it's been here at the Ask Sam headquarters, filled with scandal, salacious stories, affairs, comebacks and comedowns.

Britney visited Down Under, Tiger Woods went down under and New York governor Eliot Spitzer left his top job when it was discovered he was a client of a high-class call girl involved in a gigantic prostitute ring.

We wondered if there was a condom shortage, comedian Steve Harvey told us that we needed to "act like a man, think like a lady" in order to nab a suitable man and
Carla Bruni admitted that she'd had 15 sexual partners (which was apparently 14 too many).

Relationships broke down - think Madonna and Guy Richie (like no one saw that one coming); Pink and Carey Hart broke up and then got back together, and Mel Gibson knocked up his 39-year-old girlfriend ...

Friends with benefits

In the hilarious comedy Zack and Miri Make a Porno, roommates Zack and Miri are the best of mates. Yet considering they're both broke, their water, plumbing and electricity is turned off and they're left with nothing but candlelight and canned food.

After a video of Miri's underwear (taken by a teenager who spotted her bending over) makes the rounds on Youtube, Zack comes up with the perfect plan for them to make some cash: to make a porno of course. So the two hire some crew, gather some amateur stars and agree that they will star together in the film as long the sex doesn't ruin their friendship ...

"I thought I was promiscuous. It turns out I was just [being] thorough enough [to] get the right one."

This was the sentiment recently expressed by ex-sex-addict and British comedian Russell Brand. In case you've never heard of him, he's the bloke infamous for his sexual escapades (specifically threesomes with strippers), cheating on his girlfriends and then palming them off onto his mother, for winning the "Bizarre Sex Award" three times in a row and for having sex with a whopping 80 woman in just one month. (By the way, that's a staggering three women a day. Every day. With no break in between.)

Seemingly the type of man who would never give up his promiscuity for anyone, Brand has stunned everyone with his recent declaration that he's a changed man after meeting a woman who has stolen his heart.

The female in question? Twenty-five-year-old pop singer Katy Perry. Yep, he kissed her and he liked it. (Especially after she apparently sent him a picture of her breasts in response to a love poem he wrote her) ...

Not since a shirtless Brad Pitt graced our screens as the teen heart-throb in the classic film Thelma and Louise, have we seen the world's female population go so insanely gaga and googly-eyed for a bloke they'd never even met. Up until now ...