News
Naked News (05-12-09)

photo by babasteve No joke: Saudia Arabia holds a “Miss Beautiful Morals” pageant. Gossip Girl takes a hit: Study links viewing adult-themed TV to earlier sex in teens. Oh, but Serena van der Woodsen and Chuck Bass make such good company on lonely, lonely nights. Finally! Funding for failed abstinence-only programs bites the dust under […]

Dear Em & Lo
Your Call: He Doesn't Want Marriage or Kids. Should I Move On?

photo by Clean_Wal-Mart We feel just awful that we can’t answer every single advice question we get, but we figure that any answer is better than no answer at all. Which is why, once a week, we’ll let you guys decide how to advise a reader. Make your call by filling out the poll after […]

Dream Interpretation
Dream Interpretation: A Wrecking Ball Crashes into My Life

photo by Editor B 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 woman asks Lauri: In my dream I woke up to find a demolition ball outside of our apparent apartment […]

Research
Study Shows Even Cheaters' Guilt Is Selfish

photo by optimal_tweezers Last week we explained how evolutionary psychologists can be so annoying sometimes, what with all their assumptions about modern-day dating and mating behavior based on hunter-gatherer societies. Sure, sometimes those theories are fascinating and even enlightening, but sometimes they’re just plain wrong. Well, here’s another one for the “assume makes an ass […]

Websites
Please, Do Us a HUGE Favor: Click on the Link Below!

photo by Studio Mohawk ***CLICK HERE!*** It’s a link to our SUNfiltered post on The Top 10 Things Your Mama Inadvertently Taught You About Sex By clicking on any of the links to it in this post you’ll be helping us make our mamas proud (okay, and maybe also helping us win a “most trafficked […]

Websites
How Fucking Romantic

comic by Dani Lurie on “How Fucking Romantic” This is what the internet is for: How Fucking Romantic is a brand new, wicked cool blog that’s illustrating the Magnetic Fields album “69 Love Songs,” one by one… Read the rest of this post on SUNfiltered

Pop Culture
Blog Snog (05-08-09)

A weekly roundup of some of our favorite sex- and love-related posts from various blogs and websites: Why the hell have we not done away with failed abstinence-only programs once and for all? YourTango’s got a pretty inspiring essay on hope for your sex life post-baby. Livesteez’s 10 signs your man is a scrub. Singlish’s […]

What's Up Doc?
Dear Dr. Kate: My G-Spot Is Not an Ecstasy Button

Dr. Kate is an OB/GYN at one of the largest teaching hospitals in New York City and she answers your medical questions here once a week. To ask her your own question, click here. Dr. Kate, I have this great new boyfriend and we have fantastic sex — often including orgasm, sometimes rough and with […]

Do It Tonight
Top 10 Things Your Mama Inadvertently Taught You About Sex

photo by Lara604 It’s Mother’s Day this Sunday — don’t forget to call and thank her for all the wonderful advice. Always wear clean underwear. Trim your fingernails and wash your hands thoroughly and often. (It’ll help you avoid infection and make you less likely to tear delicate internal linings during manual sex.) Ladies first. […]

Dear Em & Lo
Dear Em & Lo: I Got My Period on a Booty Call

  Dear Em & Lo, For the past two weeks I have been sleeping with a guy I met here at college. The boundaries of our relationship have been well-established: late night phone calls for no-strings-attached sex. Nevertheless, I want to keep this thing going. However the last time we were together I had one […]

Advice
11 Tried-and-Tested, Situation-Specific Pickup Lines

photo by specialkrb Okay, so maybe we haven’t actually met someone who’s tried out the Kashi line in the grocery store. And we can’t guarantee that everyone will find kegel jokes as funny as we do. But the jukebox is a slam-dunk. These icebreakers might just make for more natural segues into a fully-fledged pick-up. […]

Personal Essays
Confession: I Dragged My College BF to Couples Therapy

Our contributor, who wishes to remain anonymous, has a confession to make. (Read the first part of this story, which led her to the therapist’s couch, here.) I always thought couples therapy was for older married couples who couldn’t get their shit together but this is just one of the many misconceptions about Napa couples […]

Wise Guys
Wise Guys: Do Most Straight Guys Secretly Love Bum Play?

Advice from three of our guy friends. This week they answer the following: Do most straight guys secretly want to have their bums explored by their girlfriends/wives? Like, even if they don’t admit it, and they’d never ask…deep down, are they curious? Straight Single Guy (L.A. Chris): When they’re together, straight guys tend to avoid […]

News
Naked News (05-05-09)

From the book I’m Glad I’m a Boy! I’m Glad I’m a Girl! The new documentary Outrage, opening this Friday, exposes closeted gay politicians who publicly oppose gay rights. The theory being, why should they get to stay in the closet if they’re actively holding back the gay rights movement in their day job and […]