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Tag Archive | "How To"

5 Better Ways to Express Your Intimacy

Friday, February 3, 2012

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photo via flickr A recent survey by Pew Internet and the American Life Project found that one in three teens had shared a password (email, Facebook, etc.) with a friend or boyfriend or girlfriend. Apparently sharing your password is the new way to express intimacy, to prove to your partner that you have nothing to [...]

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The Ten Worst Things You Can Say in Bed

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

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photo via flickr If we had to distill our entire body of sex advice into one word, it would probably be this: communicate. Before sex, during sex, after sex — speak up, people! It’s the only way to get what you need and want, and to make sure that your partner is getting what they [...]

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20 Naughty New Year’s Resolutions

Wednesday, December 28, 2011

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photo by Derek Purdy Here are twenty totally do-able New Year’s resolutions to improve your love life in 2011. Learn them, live them, love them! Ask for what you want. Keep learning new things. Let go of shame. Be a stickler about safer sex. Go for quality rather than quantity. Don’t hold grudges in your [...]

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10 Rules for Surviving Your In-Laws This Holiday Season

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

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You may tie each other up every Monday and feel completely comfortable exploring each other’s less traveled orifices, or you may consider doggie style to be “experimental” — but when it comes to the holidays, we’re all just a bunch of overgrown kids hoping to survive extended time with the in-laws (or potential future in-laws). [...]

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How to Navigate the Crappy Holidays Alone

Thursday, December 15, 2011

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photo by w00kie Feeling down in the dumps because you’re going to be single for Christmas and New Year’s? You’re not alone. Well, sure, you’re alone in the sense that you don’t have a cutie to go ice-skating with while clad in matching striped scarves from the Gap. But you’re not alone alone. Despite the [...]

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How to Understand His Porn Habit

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

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photo via flickr Is masturbating to porn cheating? Readers are always asking us this question, and the masturbator in question is pretty much always a man. Sometimes his female partner writes to us, asking if she’s right to feel cheated on. Other times the man himself writes to us, asking why his partner can’t understand [...]

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5 Ways to Reconceptualize SEX

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

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photo via Flickr We’ve said it before, we’ll say it again: Sex is not intercourse. So stop using the two words interchangeably! When we as a society do this over and over again, it gets into the collective unconscious and starts limiting how we imagine the possibilities of pleasure, especially for women. A majority of [...]

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Oral Sex Tips to Use on Her

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

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photo via Flickr Yesterday we reviewed the blow job basics. Today, it’s time for your cunnilingus refresher course. Like getting in shape or getting rich, there’s no one-size-fits-all answer when it comes to going downtown on her. What worked on your last girlfriend may not work on your current one; what worked on your current [...]

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Oral Sex Tips to Use on Him

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

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photo by Public Domain Photos Sometimes it’s good to review the basics — you know, take a refresher course on a sexual staple like fellatio, especially if it’s been a while or you’ve gotten into a rut or you’re simply not as confident as you’d like to be in the oral skills department. If you [...]

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Confession: Losing Your Virginity Ain’t No Big Thang

Thursday, August 18, 2011

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photo by mccun934 A college friend of ours who wishes to remain nameless has a confession to make: As a 21-year-old virgin I thought sex was going to be the most overwhelming, painful, awkward, terrible, awful experience ever.  Why did I think this?  Because friends, magazines, and blogs all over the place said so. Not so! Yes, cashing in [...]

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