About a week and a half ago, a reader responded to a post about the charming new term “hyena” being used to describe sexually aggressive teen girls: Have they come up for a term for younger girls who date much older men, or even something besides cradle-robber, for older men who date younger women? I’d […]
Glyde Condoms Being a vegan is hard sometimes: going out to restaurants with friends makes you as high maintenance as Meg Ryan in When Harry Met Sally; stand-up comedy is usually not a career option; and finding a condom made without animal by-products like milk protein is damn near impossible. Thank goodness for Glyde Condoms, […]
photo by adactio 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: Last night I dreamed that I was fighting with my ex husband. There was the usual yelling […]
photo by gniliep Evolutionary psychology can be so annoying sometimes. Like when it tries to explain women’s modern-day preference for pink as some left-over instinct from hunter-gatherer days when they needed to be good at gathering berries, completely disregarding the fact that in the early 1900s pink was the color of choice for little boys […]
My First Dictionary A weekly roundup of some of our favorite sex- and love-related posts from various blogs and websites: The hilarious Sarah Haskins dishes some tough love on the new reality show Tough Love, which tells single woman to stop being so “weird.” Butchtastic has a fantastic review of this book called Rec Sex. […]
The Blowguard We recently received a promo email in our inbox with the subject line “Critics Love the Blowguard!” The Blowguard is a “revolutionary” new product “designed by a dentist!” that’s supposed to assist you in giving the best blowjob ever. It’s basically a silicone mouth guard with a little chamber where you can stick […]
Self-love won’t cure swine flu, but that’s pretty much the only shortcoming we can think of: Getting a grip on yourself helps teach you the pattern of your own sexual response: What you like, what you don’t like, and what you hate more than anything else in the whole wide world. Friggin’ your riggin’ helps […]
photo by colorcritical Let’s say you’ve got enough disposable income — even in the middle of a recession — to call yourself a “classy professional” who drinks in “upscale bars.” And let’s say that — despite the recession — all this disposable income doesn’t seem to be working on the ladies like you’d hoped it […]
Is the frontrunner on “American Idol” Adam Lambert gay?(online surveys) Can’t see the poll? Click here to take it.
photo by SYD_Rahim Dear Em & Lo, I am interested in this man and I think he is interested in me. I will call him if I am in his area and ask him to grab a drink with me and my friends. This is usually last minute. The past two times he was busy […]
photo via dutchtl Confidence — as opposed to swollen-headed cockiness — is always sexy, and especially so on a date. You know how guys are always complaining that women ignore the nice guys in favor of bad boys who never call them back? Well, perhaps women aren’t just masochists who want to be walked all […]
a piece at the Sackler Center Our contributor Antonio Reis, a first year at Wesleyan, has a confession to make: There are few things in this world that I find more welcoming than a giant, naked woman sprawled out across a chaise, looking deeply into the eyes of her beholder. And that’s just what will […]
photo by batega Advice from three of our guy friends. This week they answer the following: “If the guy I’ve started dating recently isn’t into cuddling or hand-holding, is that automatically a sign that he’s just not that into me, or are some guys just not into private or public displays of affection, no matter […]
photo by frankie_m I love you, now bend over: a new study finds that spanking brings couples together. Tupperware schmupperware: Mother Knows Sex is a TLC TV special airing on May 10th about a mom of four who has made millions selling sex toys. Good news: The FDA allows 17-year-olds to get morning-after emergency contraception […]
photo by macsurak 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 […]
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: I had this really weird dream where I was in a huge mansion with tons of girls and only 4 […]
