Websites
Blog Snog: The 5 Most Romantic US Cities

photo by Kiwi Flickr YourTango: The 5 most romantic cities in the US. CollegeCandy: What’s the pointing of dating someone with no future potential? EdenFantasys’ Sexis: Enter their weekly Twitterotica Contest! TheFrisky: 12 advantages to being a single woman. TresSugar: What are these obese Disney princesses so sad about? TomFoolery: Another take on Craigslist haulting […]

Pop Culture
Know Your Meme

We’ve been long-time fans (well, long-time in terms of Internet years) of the website and podcast “Know Your Meme,” a “web series and online database dedicated to documenting Internet culture, one scientismic investigation at a time.” They give you information on the back-story, viral development and spin-offs of every crazy contemporary meme out there, from […]

Dear Em & Lo
Your Call – How Should You Move While On Top?

We get a lot of advice questions coming in at EMandLO.com, but sadly, we just can’t answer them all. Which is why, once a week, we turn to you to decide how best to advise a reader. Make your call by leaving your advice in the comments section below: Dear Em & Lo, I need […]

Pop Culture
Adam Lambert Macks with a Scissor Sister

Scissor Sisters are in the middle of the US leg of their tour to support their new album, Night Work, so Scissor Sisters News just released this update: Katy Perry Watches Adam Lambert Make Out with [lead singer] Jake Shears. Check it out to see the silly backstage shenanigans and get some serious kissing tips […]

What's Up Doc?
Dear Dr. Vanessa, How Can I Make First-Time Sex Less Painful?

photo by Morning_theft Every few weeks, Dr. Vanessa Cullins, a board-certified obstetrician/gynecologist and vice president for medical affairs at Planned Parenthood® Federation of America, will be answering your questions here. To ask her your own question, click here. Dear Dr. Vanessa, I am a 34-year-old female virgin. There were times with one ex when I thought I […]

News
Naked News: A Celibate Craigslist; Plus, Saying the Wrong Name in Bed Is Bad for Your Health

photo by MarkNick Craigslist renames their controversial “Adult Services” section “Censored” and shuts it down — temporarily, we’re assuming, to make a point about free speech. A celibate Craigslist?! It’s like Baywatch in sack dresses. Here’s one benefit to the obesity epidemic: longer sex. A recent study showed that overweight men last longer in bed […]

Wise Guys
Wise Guys – Can a Sexy Attitude Really Compensate for a So-So Body?

photo by pat hawks Advice from three of our guy friends. This week a straight woman asks,”I know that often a sexy attitude is sexier than a great body, but I can’t help feeling self conscious all the same. I’m 20 years old and though the general silhouette of my body is good (enough to […]

Dream Interpretation
Dream Interpretation – I Was Connected to a Hot Guy By a Silver Cord

photo by Helga Weber 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 this dream twice in one week and I would like to know what it means. I am […]

Research
One-Night Stands Can So Lead to Beautiful Relationships

photo by e.esders Before we started writing about sex, we had no idea that so many scientists and researchers spent time so much time studying our sexual proclivities. These days we have trouble thinking of anything sexual that hasn’t been qualified and quantified and written up in a science journal. Take the age-old issue of […]

Websites
Blog Snog: How to Date Like the Mad Men

YourTango: A crash course in Mad Men-style lovin’. EdenFantasys’ Sexis: The Blogess on the weirdest Google queries that led to her page. TheFrisky: 23 really bad sex moves that guys need to ban from their repertoire. TresSugar: Just like Cher, polyamory is making yet another comeback. TomFoolery: Weird beauty trend: bleaching your…everything? CollegeCandy: 6 apps […]

Research
Researchers Argue Over Whether Cougar Dating Exists

When we read that a researcher at the University of Wales Institute in Cardiff had released a study claiming that the cougar dating trend is a myth and a media construct, we were ready to buy his argument. After all, we’ve witnessed first-hand — and have occasionally, shame on us, been responsible for — how […]

Dear Em & Lo
Your Call: How Can I Enjoy Receiving Oral More?

photo by Bogdan Suditu Dear Em & Lo. I’m a 48-year-old female and I can’t seem to achieve an orgasm during oral sex. It all seems too intense. However, I don’t have any problems when masturbating. I feel it is like… someone else scratching your feet… it tickles. If I do it myself, it doesn’t […]

Sexual Health
Fewer E.D. Ads! New Teen-Focused Recommendations for Sex-Soaked Culture

Teens now spend a whopping seven hours per day on various forms of media. So the American Academy of Pediatrics just issued a revised policy statement, “Sexuality, Contraception, and the Media,” in the September 2010 print issue of Pediatrics (published online Aug. 30). In addition to calling for the creation of a national task force […]

Confessions
Comment of the Week: Don't Judge a Man By His Foreskin

photo by Leandro Martinez We’re not taking sides on this debate (yet!), but we did like Dannie’s analogy where she compares penis prejudice to a man refusing to sleep with a woman whose inner labia hang lower than the outer. And the debate rages on… When erect, an uncircumcised penis looks pretty much the same […]

What's Up Doc?
Dear Dr. Kate, Can You Affect the Sex of Your Baby?

photo by gniliep 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. Dear Dr. Kate, When trying to conceive, are there things you can do to try to tip the […]