A woman in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida has tried nightclubs and online dating sites, but now the 42-year-old single mother is looking for love where everyone else’s heart is breaking: the real estate market.

She’s struggling financially and doesn’t want to lose her house, so the former real estate agent who’s been alone for 8 years has decided to market her house and herself in one big package deal.

“I figured, let’s combine the ad, because I’m looking for love and I’m looking to sell the house,” said Devon Trabosh, a Barbie-esque blonde who teeters around the nearly 2,000-square-foot house in patent leather heels.

“Marry a Princess Lost in America,” Trabosh wrote in the ads she posted on eBay and Craigslist last week. She describes a life of romance and travel and a home decorated with vaulted ceilings, upgraded tile and a soaking tub in a gated community with a pool and tennis courts.

“I came up with this dream plan, because I’ve always dreamed about being a fairy-tale princess,” says Trabosh who admits to being fond of being rescued by a knight in shining armour.

She listed the home for $340,000 on a sell-it-yourself Web site but upped the price, adding a $500,000 shipping fee to include her companionship on eBay, but eBay removed her ad because they won’t allow ads for bodies or relationships.

Trabosh hasn’t received any serious offers but says she’s had nearly 500 responses, mostly positive and one handsome Italian she’s hoping to meet in Miami in a few weeks. They’ve been e-mailing since her ad went online.

Not everyone approves. Her 14 year old daughter says her mother is embarrassing her and some have emailed her saying she shouldn’t have to sell herself to find love.

“I know I’m putting myself out there. I’m sincere. I believe in true love,” she said. “I want to get married again.”

I think everyone deserves happiness. I can’t believe that a woman that looks like Trabosh can’t get a date. If she’s been trying online dating sites, she obviously hasn’t found the right one. She should call me.

There were times he made me cringe but he always said what was on his mind and I loved that about him.

Thanks for the memories, George!

Time Magazine is reporting that a new porn genre, “Elder Porn,” is catching on in Japan.

The story focuses on Shigeo Tokuda, 74, who is retired, lives with his wife and a daughter in downtown Tokyo, and has a secret life as a porn performer, having appeared in some 350 productions in the last 14 years. He maintains that his wife and daughter don’t know about the porn, and “Shigeo Tokuda” is a pseudonym. In a recent series of videos, he plays an elderly gentleman who instructs women in matters of sexuality.

Tokuda said that his videos appeal to an older audience.

“Elderly people don’t identify with school dramas,” he said. “It’s easier for them to relate to older men and daughters-in-law series, so they tend to watch adult videos with older people in them.”

Time also reports that a trend toward “mature women” in adult video has become evident in Japan over the past five years. Currently, about 300 of the 1,000 adult videos on offer at one video store chain, and 400 out of the 2,000 at another, are “mature women” films.

Ryuichi Kadowaki, director of Ruby Inc., which specializes in “mature women” titles, said, “Adult videos with young actresses sell well only in the first three months after the release. On the other hand, ‘mature women’ films enjoy a steady, long-term popularity, which after 10 years or so might lead to a best-seller. In the view of the aging society, I think that in the future we will see a steady increase in demand.”

Those Japanese.. think it will catch on everywhere?

Let’s say you and your spouse haven’t had sex for so long that you can’t remember the last time you did. Not the day. Not the month. Maybe not even the season. Would you look for gratification elsewhere? Would you file for divorce? Or would you turn to your mate and say: “Honey, you know, I’ve been thinking. Why don’t we do it for the next 365 days in a row?”

That’s pretty much what happened to Charla and Brad Muller. Another example of an erotic adventure to increase intimacy, a second couple, Annie and Douglas Brown, embarked on a similar journey of 101 straight days with some sex every day.

Most committed couples have sex an average of twice a week so it’s a big thing for a couple to do it 365 days a year. The couples thought that this sex marathon they were living in would recharge their relationships. I guess if they really enjoyed it but I wonder if just once I’d wish, “not tonight!”

It is always possible that these two couples may also be on to something. I know I’m more in love just after having sex, so maybe they’re really really really in love with each other.

It started out when one of the women wanted to give her husband a spectacular 40th birthday present. It didn’t cost anything and it was something really special only she could give him. It’s got me thinking, I gotta tell you.

Her husband thought it was a good idea but apparently she’d had lots of good ideas that she never followed through on. Once he realized she was serious, he jumped on board in a jiffy.

Each couple has written a book about their experiences. “365 Nights” was written from the woman’s perspective and “Just Do It’ was written by the husband, although the idea came from his wife who said, “”I thought we don’t have anything else going on. It might kick-start our marriage.”

They changed venues frequently – a cabin on an ashram, a yurt in the Colorado Rockies, and in a hotel room in Las Vegas. “That’s why we scheduled all these little trips,” Annie said. “We knew it had the potential of getting monotonous.” And were it not for her competitive zeal, their streak might have died well short of 100 days. Annie even forced her husband to have sex during a bout of vertigo. “I’m not a quitter,” she said. “The night he had vertigo, I said, ‘I’m sorry, guy, but you’ve got to keep going.”‘

Once they reached their goal of 101 days, they didn’t have sex for a month. That tells me that I was right when I said I’d need a break in there on some days. Hell, she even made him have sex when he had vertigo. I’ve had vertigo and I swear I couldn’t have had sex with the world spinning around. It would have definitely have been called “barf sex.”

The women are regarded with admiration, if not always envy, by their girlfriends. “My first reaction was ‘please don’t tell my husband’,” said a friend of one of the women involved.

Can sex every day re-invigorate a relationship? If a lack of sex is the problem, maybe but I suspect there are a lot of things wrong when a relationship starts to fall apart. Addressing the problems and enjoying sex, even if it’s not every day is probably a better way to have a happy relationship. My sweetie told me early on that we’d always have just the right amount of sex and he’s still right.

Shoshana Bulow, a psychotherapist and sex therapist in Manhattan, points out that sex is a lot more complicated than frequency. “There’s all sorts of reasons people lose interest in sex with their partner – disappointments, life cycles, financial issues,” she said. “Just having it isn’t going to resolve those.”

Today, the Browns report they have sex approximately six times a month, or double their frequency before their adventure. The Mullers decline to discuss their habits, except to say that they fall well within the national average.

Would you want a relationship where sex was a requirement every day?