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Wise Guys: Is There Such a Thing As Too Much Porn?

Advice from Ask the Wise GuysYour Own Question! three of EMandLO.com’s guy friends. This week they answer the following: “Is there such a thing as too much porn? If so, how much is too much?” To ask the guys your own question, click here. Straight Single Guy (Tom Miller): Yes. If beating off makes getting […]

Pop Culture
The Original “Fifty Shades of Grey”

In my senior year of high school, I read “The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty”, the first in a three-book series by vampire-genre goddess Anne Rice (who was a fave of mine at the time) writing under the pen name “A. N. Roquelaure.” Except instead of vampires, she was playing around with fairy tale characters in a […]

Pop Culture
Top 10 Celebrities with the Best Porn Star Names, Round 2

photo via AMC In response to our post “Top 10 Celebrities with Awesome Porn Names,” we got enough great additional ideas to warrant round two! 1) January Jones (thx to Sofia) 2) Whitney Cummings (thx to ThisGuy) 3) Cobie Smulders (thx to Sage) the next 4 thx to sr123: 4) Dick Armey (ed note: after all, the guy is a […]

Wise Guys
Wise Guys: If a Guy Says He Doesn’t Like Porn, Is He Lying?

Advice from three of EMandLO.com’s guy friends. This week they answer the following: “If a guy says he doesn’t like porn, is he lying?” To ask the guys your own question, click here. Married Bisexual Guy (Bryan Sebeck): Not necessarily. Porn is one of those things that get categorized as a guilty pleasure, but I know more than a few […]

Pop Culture
This Is What Feminist Porn Looks Like

Readers are constantly writing to us for advice on the Porn Issue in their relationship. Typically, women write in to say, “Why is my boyfriend so into porn and how can I get him to stop?” And typically, men write in to say, “Why does my girlfriend have such a problem with me watching porn?” […]

Confessions
Comment of the Week: Life Is Not Porn

We feel privileged and proud to have the most reasonable readers of any sex-related site out there: Well, let’s say for the sake of argument, that [a woman would] prefer [her partner] had a bigger penis. Is that a dealbreaker? Is it worth throwing an otherwise good marriage away over? I would say, continue working […]

Pop Culture
Coming Soon: Lovelace, Inferno & Cherry (Movies, Not Axe Body Spray Scents)

Yesterday we discussed celebrities with porn names. Today we’re talking about celebrities in porn movies. Okay, not actual skin flicks. No, movies about skin flicks. Just as there are two modern movie versions of Snow White coming out at the same time (our money’s on Charlize Theron’s evil queen kicking Julia Roberts’ queen’s ass), there […]

Pop Culture
Top 20 Celebrities with Awesome Porn Names

A recent article in Salon about trends in porn names (disturbingly, there is apparently a “direct correlation between trendy baby names and porn stars’ names”) got us thinking about celebrities whose names are perfectly designed for a post-career-slump porno. Here are our top 10 favorite male and female celebrities with porn names: Tiffani-Amber Thiessen (she […]

Wise Guys
Comments of the Week: And Another Thing About Facials…

photo by rightee In respons to this week’s Wise Guys installment by Angelo, Johnny and Chris about the appeal of the facial, fellow Wise Guys Figleaf and Mark wanted a piece of the action. Apparently, this is THE week to talk about money shots: Figleaf  January 17th, 2012 at 6:45 pm I’m not even stepping into the […]

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Wise Guys: Do Men Prefer Watching Porn Solo or with a Partner?

photo via flickr Whether you like watching the best VR porn you can find, watch solo videos or think the more the merrier, 40 million of us Americans regularly visit porn sites and this number increases year after year as society becomes more sec-positive. So, given this we thought this week we could get our […]

News
Naked News: Why Normal-Looking Porn Stars Are a Thret

photo via James Deen Blog Why porn that women actually like (i.e. with normal looking guys like James Dean, above) makes men so uncomfortable. You think you have a type when it comes to online dating, but according to researchers you actually don’t. The story of J. Edgar Hoover’s from someone who knows: the godson of […]

Wise Guys
Wise Guys: Can a Woman Get Her Man to Quit Porn?

photo via flickr Advice from three of EMandLO.com’s guy friends. This week they answer the following: “Can a woman ever get her man to quit porn?” To ask the guys your own question, click here. Straight Engaged Guy (Mark Luczak): There are probably a lot of eventual branches to this question, depending on the reasoning […]

Confessions
Comment of the Week: Don’t Hide Your Porn Habit

photo via flickr I second the importance of ethical porn consumption and highly recommend Abby Winters, which is woman-owned and operated. It’s definitely better to bring up the topic of porn early on in a relationship, than to wait for it to come out when you get caught. If you hide it, it will seem […]

Dear Em & Lo
How to Understand His Porn Habit

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 […]

Research
The Media’s Pornification of Women

Here’s a fascinating but not all that surprising study from the University of Buffalo: they recently analyzed more than 1,000 images of men and women on Rolling Stone covers over the course of 43 years (they chose Rolling Stone since it’s a well-established, pop-culture media outlet) and found the following: In the 1960s, 11 percent of […]

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Porn for Women (Must Love Dogs)

photo via Men and Their Dogs Don’t worry, no pets were harmed (or diddled) in the making of this porn. The Men and Their Dogs blog is exactly what it sounds like: photos of men with their dogs — making kissy faces, taking bubble baths together, or just being emo-artsy. Kind of like those Porn […]