Websites
The Wisdom of Twitter: You Ain't For Me

photo by faster_panda_kill_kill We love to browse the “trending topics” at Twitter to see what people are tweeting about across the world. Where else can you get relationship wisdom from millions of people simultaneously? Our most recent favorite topic is the hash tag #YouAintForMe. Here are twenty recent ones for your edification — though we […]

What's Up Doc?
Dear Dr. Vanessa: What's Up with Kegels?

The Kegelcisor available at Eden Fantasys 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 went to the gynecologist the other day and she said […]

Confessions
Comment of the Week: Size Doesn’t Matter; Passion Does

Mesha, commenting on “Advice: My New Boyfriend Has a Small Penis…At Least, It’s Small to Me”: No one sees our “flaws” more than ourselves. My advice to men: stop measuring yourselves, big or small — you are a man, and just in being a man are wonderful in yourselves and highly valued by women. Just […]

Personal Essays
Introducing "The Virgin Diaries"

photo by Rafael Acorsi Perhaps you’re familiar with our regular contributor, Katherine Chen, a sophomore English major at Princeton University. She’s written several thoughtful essays on topics like porn and puberty. What really sets apart her involvement with our site about sex, however, is the fact that she’s never had any. But just because one […]

News
Naked News: What About Prom, Bleckley?

In modern John Hughes-ish news: After months of negotiations (and getting thrown out of his house by his parents), a gay boy in Bleckley County, Georgia is finally given permission to bring a same-sex date to his prom. (And then a couple of loser students protest the decision.) In kinky science news: Turns out black […]

Dear Em & Lo
Your Call: Trust Issues That Are 20 Years Old

Dear Em & Lo, I dated a guy 20 years ago for about 8 months and he recently found me online. We broke up originally because of me, I was 19 and really thought that I was in love with the guy I cheated on him with. I had a child with the guy I […]

Wise Guys
Wise Guys: Can't Women Ask Men Out?

photo by rick Advice from three of our guy friends. This week a straight woman asks, “Why do some guys get freaked out if a woman asks them out, and act like she’s desperate? Is it because they feel like they have to say yes? Or does it actually make a woman seem less attractive […]

Pop Culture
One-Night Stand Wisdom from '80s Song Lyrics

When we published “How to Greet a Former One-Night Stand” on our site last week, Madamoiselle L suggested the worst way ever to do so: “Hey, how are you doing? Oh, I’d like you to meet your son.” To which Spes responded, “Wasn’t there an ’80s song about that?” Reader SS to the rescue! “Googling […]

Dream Interpretation
Dream Interpretation: I Made Out with My Friend's Fiance!

photo by _StaR_DusT_ 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: In real life, I had just come home from hanging and making out with a classmate — he’s the first […]

TV
In Case You Missed It, Here's the Trailer for SEX – HOW TO DO EVERYTHING

SEX: How to Do Everything CHECK OUT THE TRAILER IN THE RIGHT SIDEBAR!>>> You can play the new trailer in the right-hand sidebar of this site for our 10-part television series, SEX: How to Do Everything. It’s now available on DVD! Each 45-minute show tackles a specific topic (seduction, oral sex, kink, anal play, etc) […]

Websites
Blog Snog: Teen Heartthrobs, College Swingers & Swedish Chefs

From TresSugar: Help pick the best teen heartthrob of all time and you could win an iPad. From Eden Fantasys:  The Bloggess makes a really disturbing connection between a sex toy and The Muppets. From YourTango: What to say when he can’t get it up. From The Frisky: 5 perfectly good reasons to sleep with […]

Websites
Can You Fix ChatRoulette's Penis Problem?

Earlier this week, we wrote about how the ChatRoulette improv piano guy almost makes you forget about all the purple throbbing genitals you were forced to weed through on your first and only foray into that weird world. (We’re still trying to decide which was more disturbing: Seeing a guy jerking off the first time […]

Dear Em & Lo
Dear Em & Lo: What Do Vulvas Taste Like?

photo by ksantome Dear Em & Lo, I hear if your vagina has no taste to it that means you’re healthy? My friend told me he likes to eat his girlfriend out and it’s because it’s just like water, no taste to it. He said if there is a taste to it something is wrong […]

Pop Culture
The Best Period Commercial, Period

We saw this fantastic ad for a new line of period products called U from Kotex while we were watching American Idol the other day. (We can admit this viewing habit without shame because in the same week we watched the 13-and-a-half-hour, black-and-white German film “White Ribbon,” which pretty much balances things out.) Anyway, the […]

What's Up Doc?
Dear Dr. Vanessa – Can My Roomie's Hormones Affect My Mood Swings?

photo by ken ratcliff 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, In the summer my roommate and I moved in with two other […]