Dear Em & Lo
Your Call: Is It Okay to Always Let Him Pay?

Share your advice for this reader in the comments section below… Dear Em & Lo, I’ve recently started seeing this older guy. So far we’ve been on three dates, and he always insists on paying for everything. I feel a bit guilty, but on the other hand he does have a pretty good and well-paid […]

Pop Culture
10 Reasons Why We Love Samantha Bee

She posed in a bee costume for the cover of her new memoir, i know i am, but what are you? And still manages to look kinda hot in it. She’s a fan of pubic hair. “Our body looks weird without it,” she told The Frisky. “Vaginas don’t look that nice to me without it. […]

Dream Interpretation
Dream Interpretation – My BF Gave Me a Necklace, Then Shagged My Mum

photo by lindyireland Other people’s dreams are never interesting…except when they’re about love and sex. Each week, our dream analyst Lauri Loewenberg tells one lucky reader what their dirty dream means. This week, a reader asks Lauri: I’ve had this dream on several occasions now, and it’s really bothering me. It starts with me organizing […]

Websites
Blog Snog: Souless Sexting, Seinfeld & Sending Sexy Pics

photo by Joe M500 College Candy: Texting has made college relationships even more unhealthy and less communicative (like that was even possible). Tomfoolery: Seinfeld’s 20 best relationship moments (in video clips). TresSugar: The do’s and don’ts of meeting the parents. Eden Fantasys’ SexIs: An older man discusses his traumatic experience buying his first vibrator…in person. […]

Pop Culture
Books: Every Rose Has Its Thorn

We really should have some kind of back-stabbing, cat-fighting (or at least pillow-fighting) relationship with Erin Bradley — author of the new book Every Rose Has Its Thorn: The Rock ‘n’ Roll Field Guide to Guys — seeing as she picked up where we left off at Nerve.com. She’s been their advice lady now for […]

Dear Em & Lo
An Update to "Should I Give My BF a Second Chance?"

photo by batega This past winter, “Torn” wrote in about her boyfriend of almost 3 years who’d recently cheated on her (possibly for the second time), only coming clean when she’d confronted him with evidence and then blaming it on her distance due to her intense vet school coursework, which he’d never mentioned before. She […]

Pop Culture
ISO – Secretly Sexy Couples to Feature in a National Magazine!

photo by love janine We’re looking for ordinary couples who have extraordinary sex lives to feature in an article for a very popular (and respectable) national women’s magazine. For instance, to the outside world you’re upstanding members of your community who enjoy holding hands and throwing dinner parties. But behind closed doors….you practice Tantric sex, […]

Pop Culture
The Documentary "The Nature of Existence"

There’s a new documentary out this summer from the director of TREKKIES  called THE NATURE OF EXISTENCE (it opens this tomorrow in NY at The Quad Cinemas), in which various philosophers, history scholars, religious leaders and fanatics from all over the world are asked tough questions about the purpose of human beings on Earth. The […]

What's Up Doc?
Dear Dr. Kate – Looks Like Herpes, Could It Be Something Else?

photo by Katie_Tegtmeyer 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, I recently had a few zit-like sores on my labia that I was convinced were […]

Pop Culture
Best Condom Tagline Ever

We just saw this awesome condom TV commercial from Trojan the other day. We’re not necessarily endorsing the product, just the ad. First of all, the tagline “You can’t wait to get it on”? Genius. How has this not been used to promote condoms before? Second, you gotta love the taboo busting: yes, women buy […]

How To
The How To's of Designated Dialing

photo by sidewalk_flying Drunk dialing — we’ve all been there. For the record, not all booty calls conducted under the influence are considered drunk dialing. It’s only drunk dialing if you’re making a call that you will actually regret in the morning, whether or not that call results in booty. Typically when you drunk dial, […]

News
Naked News: HPV Vac for Boys and How BP Spill Links to Weddings and Abortions

photo by stevendepolo Gardasil, the popular vaccine that protects against certain strands of HPV, is now being recommended for boys. The Pakistani government is beginning to allow sex-change operations. Cry us a river: the BP oil spill is having a negative effect on beach weddings. Speaking of BP…a Christian conservative has somehow made a connection […]

Dear Em & Lo
Your Call – Is Living with Your Mom a Dealbreaker for Guys?

photo by klynslis Share your advice for this reader in the comments section below… Dear Em & Lo and Wise Guys, I’m a 38 year old woman and after a horrendous year (divorce, job loss, money loss), I finally have a job that I’m trying to earn more money at.  The problem is, my mom […]

Wise Guys
Wise Guys – What Do You Think After a One-Night Stand?

photo by foxtongue Advice from three of our guy friends. This week they answer the following: “What are most guys thinking when they wake up after a one-night stand?” Gay Single Guy (Daniel): Seriously, it depends if a guy is sober and/or can remember how he got into bed with so-and-so. The alcohol factor is […]

Sexual Health
One Woman's Tale of Dying to Give Birth

photo by Lynsey Addario/VII Network for Time It’s reasonable to assume that, in this day and age of technological advances and common knowledge about good health, maternal mortality rates should be next to nil. But even in the United States, one of the richest countries in the world, it’s up at 13.3 deaths per 100,000 […]