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Tag Archive | "Gay Issues"

The (Bisexual) Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Tuesday, December 27, 2011

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In a review of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo  (the new U.S. version starring Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara), the US Weekly critic Mara Reinstein writes of Lisbeth Salander, “The brazenly bisexual, leather-clad, withdrawn title heroine…” Wait — brazenly what? What does it even mean to be brazenly bisexual? The phrase suggests that being bisexual [...]

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Comments of the Week: Is Cunnilingus Inherently Sapphic? Duh.

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

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photo via Flickr We wouldn’t want you to think EMandLO.com is anally fixated or anything, we just really appreciate the whole “what’s good for the goose is good for the gander” argument when it comes to defending straight men being receptive to a little backdoor love. Hence, the second comment of the week in a [...]

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Comment of the Week: Strap-Ons Can Bring a Couple Closer

Wednesday, December 14, 2011

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Bend Over Beginner Kit from EdenFantasys.com SJM, responding to the post  ”Confession: I Want to Do My Boyfriend with a Strap-On“: This is something that will make a relationship grow. Plain sex gets old. It took me forever to open up to my gf about how I wanted her to ["plug"] me, or whatever. But [...]

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Your Call: Is Backdoor Play Gay?

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

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photo via Flickr We get a lot of advice questions coming in at EMandLO.com, but sadly, we just can’t answer them all. Which is why, once a week, we turn to you to decide how best to advise a reader. Make your call by leaving your response in the comments section below. For a while now my girlfriend and [...]

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Raleigh Baptist Church Holds Out for Gay Marriage in North Carolina

Monday, November 28, 2011

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photo via flickr A few years back we went on a cross-country road trip to promote our first book, The Big Bang. We knew that we’d find dirty minds (i.e. eager book buyers) in places like San Francisco and Portland, but we couldn’t believe how kinky things got in Raleigh, NC! One guy asked us [...]

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The Forward Momentum of Gay Rights

Friday, November 11, 2011

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We mentioned a recent Pew Research Center survey earlier this week (in Naked News) that shows how public acceptance of same-sex marriage has grown in the past two years, jumping by 9 percentage points, making the country now evenly divided on the issue, with 46% in support legalization and 44% opposed. While reading up on the topic, [...]

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Wise Guys: What’s the Appeal of Girl-on-Girl Action?

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

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photo by marcogomes Advice from three of EMandLO.com’s guy friends. This week they answer the following: “What’s up with straight guys’ almost universal fascination with girl-on-girl action?” To ask the guys your own question, click here. Straight Committed Guy (Johnny): Other than the simple answer — it makes me and almost all other men pop a boner — perhaps [...]

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Dream Interpretation: I Give Gay Sexual Favors to the Police

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

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photo by conner395 Other people’s dreams are never interesting…except when they’re about sex. Each week, our dream analyst Lauri Loewenberg tells one lucky reader what their dirty dream means. Got a dream you want Lauri to analyze? Click here to submit it) This week, a male reader asks Lauri: I like to think I’m quite [...]

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Dream Interpretation: Does My Lesbian Dream Mean I’m a Lesbian?

Monday, September 12, 2011

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photo by marcogomes Other people’s dreams are never interesting…except when they’re about sex. Each week, our dream analyst Lauri Loewenberg tells one lucky reader what their dirty dream means. Got a dream you want Lauri to analyze? Click here to submit it) This week, a reader asks Lauri: I had a dream that I was [...]

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Lauri Interprets Newly Out Country Singer Chely Wright’s Dream

Monday, August 15, 2011

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photo by GregInHollywood If you’re a country music fan, odds are, you know Chely Wright. If you’re not, then you probably know Chely Wright as “that country singer who went out on Oprah.” (She’s pictured above.) These days when a celebrity comes out, it’s well… meh. That wasn’t the case when Chely came out because [...]

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