Wise Guys
Wise Guys: What’s the Definition of Bad Sex?

photo by rileyroxx Advice from three of our guy friends. This week they answer the following: “What’s the definition of bad sex?“ Straight Single Guy (Chris): Good sex is a function of the physical and the mental. For women, the mental part may be much more about nurturing and safety, or so I’ve read. For […]

Pop Culture
Britain’s Bad Sex Award Pits Philip Roth Against Nick Cave

photo of Nick Cave via Los Angeles Times If there’s one thing the Brits are good at, it’s laughing about sex, whether it’s lowbrow, bum-pinching humor — paging Benny Hill — or the highbrow upper echelons of London’s literary society. The cool kids in the latter category are definitely at the Literary Review magazine, with their […]

Dream Interpretation
Dream Interpretation: What Does a Long Embrace Mean?

photo by psd 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 reader asks Lauri: This really isn’t a sex dream at all, but I have dreamt twice this week of hugging (very long embrace) […]

Websites
Blog Snog: Racy Wedding Pics, Sex Don’ts, & Victorian Sex Slang

image by JessAndTheCity (not the photograher in the story, fyi) A weekly roundup of some of our favorite (and not so favorite) sex- and love-related posts from various blogs and websites: LemonDrop reports on a bride who sued a photographer for posting online racy photos of her taken as she was getting ready for her […]

Pop Culture
Pine-Sol Ad Jumps On Housework-Improves-Sex Bandwagon

photo from Porn for Women Finally! An ad for a cleaning product that doesn’t feature a woman going into an orgasmic paroxysm over a new mop. Only on Madison Avenue does doing the chores turn a woman on. Sure, Pine-Sol may have shamelessly ripped off the Porn for Women books with their new ad, but […]

Polls
Men-Only Poll: How Long Should Intercourse Last?

MEN: How long do you think intercourse (actual penile penetration) should last, ideally? (Apologies to readers whose sexual repertoire doesn’t include this.)(online surveys) Can’t see the poll? Click here to take it.

Polls
Women-Only Poll: How Long Should Intercourse Last?

WOMEN: How long do you think intercourse (actual penile penetration) should last, ideally? (Apologies to readers whose sexual repertoire doesn’t include this.)(survey) Can’t see the poll? Click here to take it.

Pop Culture
The First (All) Gay Superhero Comic

If you suspected a few members of the Justice League of America were gay (hello, Aquaman?) and always wished they’d come out of the closet, there’s now a new ALL-gay superhero comic just for you. It’s called Spandex. What it lacks in artistic skill (visually speaking, this ain’t no DC Comic), it makes up for […]

What's Up Doc?
Dear Dr. Kate: I’m SO Confused About HPV!

photo by db*photography An anonymous poster on our site — calling themselves “medical knowledge” — recently wrote the following in response to an edition of our advice column about HPV. So we asked our own Dr. Kate — of Gynotalk.com — to clear things up, as it were. First, the anonymous comment: 80% of sexually […]

Confessions
Comment of the Week: The Stupak Back-and-Forth

In response to our post “What You Need to Know About the Stupak Amendment,” commenter Kile wrote: Your article is non-sensical.  You state that women would have to buy a rider for a completely unexpected event, (who plans to have an abortion?) ALL insurance is for unexpected events.  People don’t buy car insurance because they […]

How To
10 Ways to Win Over Your Partner’s Parents This Thanksgiving

Image via IMDB You know the relationship is serious when you’re spending any major holiday with your significant other’s family. Sure, you may have met them briefly once or twice before, but something like Thanksgiving is the battleground where approval can be won or lost forever. So follow these ten simple rules to ensure your […]

News
Naked News: Britain’s Belle du Jour Reveals Her True Identity

Showtime’s series “Secret Diary of a Call Girl” was based on the blog and book by Belle du Jour Britain’s most famous — and heretofore anonymous — sex worker and blogger, Belle du Jour, reveals her true identity…turns out she’s a specialist in developmental neurotoxicology and cancer epidemiology. We shit you not. And in case […]

Pop Culture
A Feminist in Fox’s Clothing? Megan Fox in the NYTimes Magazine

cover image from the Sunday NYTimes magazine We weren’t sure how or why the sex symbol with diarrhea of the mouth, Megan Fox, got an entire cover article dedicated to her in the New York Times Sunday magazine. Is she really such a cultural force? She’s been in like a whopping two movies (we’re counting […]

Celebrities
Twilight, Take Me Away!: Teen Vampires & Moms Who Love Them

photo by Paige Gabert Click here to read our article for New York magazine this week on area moms who take a bite out of the big Twilight apple. You can also read our “director’s cut” of the piece, which includes more quotes and info, after the jump:

Dream Interpretation
Dream Interpretation: I Tried Not to Cheat But Gave In

photo by pasukaru76 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 reader asks Lauri: I had a dream that I was cheating on my boyfriend with a perfect stranger. At first, I didn’t want […]

Websites
Blog Snog: Stiff Nights, Sex Amnesia & Wild Hen Parties

A weekly roundup of some of our favorite (and not so favorite) sex- and love-related posts from various blogs and websites: GoodVibes investigates the risks of herbal erection pills in light of the FDA’s recent warning about a product called Stiff Nights. YourTango reports on the sexual side effects of Thanksgiving (and no, it doesn’t […]