Travel
How To
The Do’s and Don’ts of Vacation Sex (Video)

Going on vacay with your partner? Here are 14 quick rules to follow to turn up the heat and make your tropical or summertime vacation sex great! Details are below the video: 1. Don’t stress about your bathing-suit body. You don’t go on vacation with the body you want, you go on vacation with the […]

How To
6 Rules for Outdoor Sex (Video)

Now that the weather’s turning warmer, many people are overcome by two urges: to get outside and to get it on — two great tastes that taste great together! And so the season of outdoor sex has begun — is there anything more all-American worth celebrating this July 4th? But it’s not all fun and […]

How To
10 Ways to Have More FUN in Bed!

1. Turn your bedroom into a boudoir. Paint the walls a deep red (or just on the sheets or pillows if red walls is too much of a commitment!). Add mood lighting with dimmers. Load up on lots of pillows. Install long curtains (would any boudoir be caught dead with short curatins, or worse, shades?). […]

Research
How Traveling Is Good for You & Your Relationships

Whether you go on one of the romantic sunset sailing trips with Kai Kanani, go hiking in Asia, or sunbathe together, holidaying is a wonderful way to take your relationship to the next level. Why? Because traveling is fun. We love exploring, seeing new places, and getting away from the day-to-day routine of our lives. […]

Books
We Joined the Mile-High Club…And Got Caught

Earlier this week we published an excerpt from Tracey Cox’s awesome new book, Dare: What Happens When Fantasies Come True, which is available now on Amazon for your Kindle. The excerpt explains how and why fantasizing can improve your sex life. Today, in a second excerpt from the book, a British woman named Madison (you’ll notice some […]

News
In Paris, “You Don’t Own Me” Is a Love Song

photo via Travels with Two When I (Em) was in Paris a few months ago, I couldn’t figure out why the bridge behind Notre Dame was covered in thousands of tiny padlocks (plus a few bike locks). They weren’t there when Lo and I visited back in 2004. A quick spot of Googling (thanks to […]

Toys
Want to Go to Palm Springs?

One of our favorite toy creators, Jimmyjane, along with Ace Hotels, is giving you until EOD PST this Tuesday, January 31st to enter to win a two-night stay this year at the Palm Springs Ace Hotel that includes $500 for travel, a complete set of Jimmyjane’s award-winning FORM vibrators ($620 value) and a ton of sexified in-room amenities: a blindfold and cuffs, an erotic […]

Personal Essays
7 Reasons to Love Hotel Sex

photo via flickr EMandLO.com contributor Jewely Hoxie, who is studying Human Sexuality at the University of California Santa Cruz – you can read her blog here – has a confession to make: I love to travel with my boyfriend, mostly because getting a hotel room together is so much fun. A change of scenery not […]

News
The Museum of Broken Relationships Will Take Your Crap

Donated exhibit at the Museum of Broken Relationships The Museum of Broken Relationships sounds like a catchy name for a blog or something Carrie Bradshaw might muse about in one of her deep, metaphor-heavy voice-overs. But it’s way more awesome than that: It’s an actual museum. In Croatia. See? Totally awesome. We wrote about the […]

Toys
Is That a Lipstick in Your Pocket, Or Are You Just Really Happy?

image via Lelo A lot of the so-called “discreet” sex toys out there don’t exactly live up to their name. Sure, the I Rub My Duckie doesn’t look like a vibrator, but then you’ve still got to explain to your visiting aunt why, past the age of four, you keep a rubber duckie in your […]

Websites
People Who Get Paid to Touch Your Junk

This holiday season, spare a thought for the hardworking TSA agents who, though they get to wear blue latex gloves when they do it — unlike most prostitutes, one assumes — don’t get paid nearly enough to touch your junk. Also, we’re guessing that doctors and prostitutes aren’t regularly accused of attempting to “cop a […]

How To
Top 10 Items to Pack for Summer Vacation (We’re Not Talking Sunscreen)

Don’t waste precious suitcase space on sunscreen this summer vacation—you can buy that when you arrive. But here are 10 items that you probably won’t be able to find at the resort, so pack them for guaranteed high temperatures, no matter what the weather is like. You might want to put them in your checked […]