Dear Em & Lo
Dear Em & Lo: Can I Date My Best Friend's Brother?

photo by I Love Egg Dear Em & Lo, There is a man who likes me, and he’s the type of man who every woman would want to have. He’s funny, kind, charming, and such a gentleman. The problem is, he’s my best friend’s older brother. He told his family that he’s had feelings for […]

Personal Essays
Confession: I Want to Do My Boyfriend with a Strap-On

Our contributor, a woman who wishes to remain anonymous, has a confession to make. My boyfriend’s butt is beautiful. It’s pretty. It’s plump. It fits in the palm of my hand. I can’t keep my hands off it, and simply touching it turns me on. I’ve spanked it, kissed it, rubbed it, grabbed it, bit […]

Wise Guys
Wise Guys: Why Didn’t He Call When He Said He Would?

Advice from three of our guy friends. This week they answer the following: Why didn’t he call when he said he would? Straight Married Guy (Matt): There’s a simple answer to this one: it doesn’t matter. Most women I know get very worked up over this, and it never helps anything. It could be one […]

Pop Culture
Books: Unfriendly Fire

Nathaniel Frank & his book “Unfriendly Fire” on The Daily Show Our pal Nathaniel Frank — who was smooth as butta on The Daily Show last night — is the foremost expert in the country on the toad-lickin’ crazy “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. His new book, Unfriendly Fire: How the Gay Ban Undermines the […]

Dear Em & Lo
Your Call: Should She Share Her Fantasies?

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 the jump: Dear […]

Dream Interpretation
Dream Interpretation: I Got Hot and Heavy with Lindsay Lohan

photo by allygirl520 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. This week, a straight woman asks Lauri: I dreamed that I was in a hostel (perhaps because I’ve just returned from backpacking in Europe) and I […]

Advice
How to Battle Bedroom Boredom

photo by AliceNWondrlnd Our former intern Kristen Rollins just interviewed us for Lemondrop.com‘s “Orgasm of the Week” feature. We talked about couples getting stuck in sexual ruts: Kristen: Why does sex wane as a relationship progresses? Em & Lo: We’re lazy. We like variety, and we start to take each other for granted. Kristen: So […]

Websites
Blog Snog (03-06-09)

photo via The Frisky A weekly roundup of sex- and love-related posts from some of our favorite blogs: The Frisky asks six women with laid-off guys how the recession is affecting their love lives, now that they’re bringing home the bacon, and the answers are freakin’ depressing. Isn’t anyone out there having hot recession sex? […]

Polls
Poll: What If Your Partner Cheated on You?

<a href =”http://answers.polldaddy.com/poll/1418809/” >What do you think of being cheated on?</a> <br/> <span style=”font-size:9px;” mce_style=”font-size:9px;”> (<a href =”http://www.polldaddy.com”> surveys</a>)</span> Can’t see the poll? Click here to take it.

Pop Culture
Celebrities Do It Too (03-05-09)

Jezebel calls bullshit — and perfectly rightly so! — on Vanity Fair not going the full monty with their “naked” male comedians spoof cover. The Frisky alerts us to Diddy’s ridiculous mid-Tantric sex Twittering. If you’re twittering while doing Tantra, then you’re not doing Tantra. The unscrupulous TMZ reports that a similarly unscrupulous t-shirt company […]

Pop Culture
Books: Tasting Her

Last week we interviewed prolific sex writer Rachel Kramel Bussel about her book of fellatio erotica, Tasting Him. Today we chat about Tasting Her, a book of erotica about — you guessed it! — cunnilingus. E&L: You say in the intro that you haven’t always been a big fan of cunnilingus. Are people shocked to […]

Dear Em & Lo
Dear Em & Lo: I Miss My Army Husband. So Does My Libido.

Dear Em & Lo, I am a new army wife having a very difficult time. The lack of intimacy and sex is much harder than I had thought it would be. My usual sex drive had gone from very high to pretty low over the last year, so I didn’t think the lack of sex […]

Do It Tonight
Do It Tonight! Rip Your Shirt Off

photo by ellie Sometimes it’s nice to take things slowly, to undress each other as an act of love, to undo every button with unrushed focus. Other times, you just want to rip off each other’s clothes, literally! But this is often impractical. People pay a lot of hard-earned money on their wardrobes, and as […]

Personal Essays
Confession: Student/R.A. Love, the Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name

  Our contributor Antonio Reis, a first year at Wesleyan, has a confession to make on behalf of his friend: At 5:00 am, I wake up to the sound of fists pounding my dorm-room door. Groggily I get up and open it and am swiftly pushed back onto my bed by Sara as she bursts […]

Wise Guys
Wise Guys: Do Men Appreciate a Helping Hand?

photo by permanently scatterbrained Advice from four of our guy friends. This week they answer the following: I’ve heard that it’s not worth giving a guy a handjob because he can just do it better himself. Is that true? Straight Married Guy (Jamie): Sadly, yes.  But I think the problem is just one of misconception […]

TV
The Best Bachelor Ever!

Douche and Freckles on the season finale of The Batch It is with great shame that I, Lo, admit to having watched almost all 17 (!) horrendous seasons of The Bachelor on ABC. But last night’s “After the Final Rose” special (an in-studio event where the betrothed and the rejected appear together 3 months after […]