Personal Essays
Confession: Romance, Schromance

Our contributor Abby Spector, who is double-majoring in English and Feminine/Gender/Sexuality Studies at Wesleyan University, has a confession to make: I lost my virginity beside a pool with a guy whose age was less than the number of people he had slept with. Before penetration he said, “I don’t want anything serious, okay?” I nodded. […]

Wise Guys
Wise Guys: When Is a Boob Job Warranted?

photo by PinkMoose Advice from three of our guy friends. This week a straight woman asks, “I think my boobs are too small — slightly pudgy guys have bigger boobs than me! Should I get a boob job?” Gay Committed Guy (Mark): Gut response: No. Even though god knows how many Americans have some kind […]

Pop Culture
Body Worlds Is Going XXX

When last we mentioned Body Worlds, the international exhibition of skinless cadavers with their muscles, nerves, and tendons intact displayed in various theatrical poses, people were in a huff over one pair of corpses caught in flagrante delicto (specifically, in the Reverse Cowgirl position). Well, we’re assuming since there’s no such thing as bad publicity, […]

Pop Culture
10 Things Dirty Dancing Taught Us About Love and Sex

photo by heine(ken) R.I.P. Patrick Swayze, star of Dirty Dancing. Thank you for giving us the gift of dance and romance that only teenagers with a very high tolerance for cheese and a low level of taste can appreciate (and quote from endlessly). We’ll never forget you. And we’ll never be put in a corner. […]

Dream Interpretation
Dream Interpretation: I Keep Cheating on My Boyfriend

photo by victoriapeckham 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 (after the jump). This week, a reader asks Lauri: I keep having extremely explicit dreams about cheating on my boyfriend! There are two kinds: #1) I […]

News
10 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Hermaphrodites

photo by dalbera The South African runner Caster Semenya recently withdrew from a competition amid speculation about her sex. The rumor is that she is intersex — or a hermaphrodite, as they used to say in the olden days. If it’s true, then it’s too bad she withdrew, as we would have loved to see the world of […]

Pop Culture
10 Good Reasons Why Women Have Sex

Why Women Have Sex by Cindy Meston and David Buss is on sale now It seems like everyone right now is talking about that new book Why Women Have Sex, by Cindy Meston and David Buss. Apparently lots of women reported having sex to keep the peace, to stave off boredom, to relieve a headache, […]

Confessions
Comment of the Week: On Women’s Magazines and Body Image

“About perfect, model-looking women vs actual women: I believe you women are at fault about society’s direction in respect to looks. You women keep buying all the glamour/fashion/designs mags that show all this fabrication when it comes to female looks. If women would stop buying all those mags, money would talk, and mags would start […]

Pop Culture
Blog Snog (09-11-09)

A weekly roundup of some of our favorite sex- and love-related posts from various blogs and websites: BitchBuzz wonders whether the new Megan Fox vehicle Jennifer’s Body can change the traditionally horrible relationship between women and horror movies? We saw the trailer and we’re skeptical. YourTango goes inside the national cougar convention. GoodVibes has a […]

News
EMandLO.com Among Top 100 Lifestyle Blogs!

photo by MGShelton We don’t like to toot our own horn….Oh, who are we kidding, we LOVE tooting our own horn! And so we’re pleased to announce that EMandLO.com was chosen as one of the top 100 lifestyle blogs out there by The Daily Reviewer. Now, we know that this is just an aggregating site […]

Vids
Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis

Between Two Ferns With Zach Galifianakis from Between Two Ferns Zach Galifianakis is one of those weirdo comedians you either love or you hate. We love him, mostly for his entirely inappropriate sexual humor. So if you haven’t checked out his Funny or Die series, “Between Two Ferns”, we recommend you blow off work for […]

Dear Em & Lo
Dear Em & Lo: My Man Orgasmed Without Ejaculating

Dear Em & Lo, After a particularly hot session with my husband the other night, he had what seemed to me like a really intense orgasm. But when I went to the bathroom afterward to clean up, it appeared as if he didn’t actually ejaculate. Basically, there was nothing to clean up, even when I […]

News
Naked News (09-09-09)

photo by [177] According to a recent study, men who are smart and funny may have healthier sperm, too. We can’t believe it: Last week we were praising Glamour magazine for publishing a photo of an average-sized woman; now this week we’re giving the thumbs up to Playboy (yes, Playboy) magazine, for their list of […]

Dream Interpretation
Dream Interpretation: I Can’t Stop Dreaming About My Husband’s Mistress

photo by Xtina_Lam 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 (after the jump). This week, a reader asks Lauri: Okay. First a little history. About two years ago my husband cheated on me and got the […]