Relationships

Best Ideas

1. Enhanced marriages, families and neighbourhoods through Internet
2. A ring tattoo to discourage adultery
3. A gender tax to pay for male crime
4. Women to start work earlier
5. Pre-Marriage Percentage Compatibility Rating Test
6. Go camping together before marriage
7. Lonely hearts column tip
8. Wimps and Wumps
9. Boyfriend pays $20 deposit for date
10. Late arriver buys lunch
11. Reputation is more important than fame
12. Small gifts improve creative problem solving
13. Rewards devalue pleasant tasks
14. Random acts of kindness day
15. How to increase co-operation through Tit-for-Tat
16. Family therapy principles for defusing contentious public debates
17. Family Arguing Time

Social Inventions

1. Listening with affection and excitement
2. Powerful people speak slowly
3. Tentative female talk changes men's minds
4. More random kindness
5. The helper's high
6. Green stamps for the right to have children
7. Harness for sex in space
8. Tantra
9. The Tantric Love Swing
10. Sexual desire depends on status and self-esteem
11. Longer daylight makes men aggressive
12. Sperm damaged by light
13. Sex improves women's sporting performance
14. How to be irresistible to the opposite sex
15. Divorce ceremonies
16. What to do when your life falls apart
17. A predictive map for family happiness
18. Learned optimism more useful than truth

Book of Visions

1. Relationships - the main research findings
2. Man-woman brainstorms
3. The man who found a wife through a large sign outside his house
4. The Adventure and Romance Agency
5. Polyfidelity
6. 88 guidelines for group behaviour
7. Ending the state's marriage monopoly
8. The family as a corporate entity
9. Conversation deepening
10. Lunch time launchers
11. Neo-tantric yoga
12. Bedsits for arguing couples
13. MDMA - a drug for healing relationships?
14. Computer Divorce Agreements
15. Unwedding
16. Women Welcome Women
17. Running Sisters
18. Fostering communities
19. AIDS - a different view
20. AIDS treatment self-help
21. Non-pen friends
22. Lack of touching leads to violence?
23. How to introduce a new kitten to an old cat
24. Practise random kindness and senseless acts of beauty

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