photo by Gibson Regester Study finds that highly sensitive fingers in a woman may be linked to her ability to orgasm vaginally. In Indonesia, a mandate being discussed would require girls to pass virginity tests to attend state-funded schools. Just. Wow. Kink study finds that the majority of men are open to fetishes behind closed […]
photo by David_and_Katarina Advice from three of our guy friends. This week a straight woman asks, “Many women say that sex gets better as a relationship progresses, as they get to know their partner more and get more comfortable. Is this true for guys too?” Straight Married Guy (Ben): My wife and I started off […]
photo by karindaiziel 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’m a young woman in a very happy committed relationship. In the last few weeks, I’ve had multiple dreams about […]
The 20th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, which honors achievements that “first make people laugh, and then make them think,” was held Harvard University last Thursday. On hand to help honor the 2010 prize laureates was Dr. Elana Bodnar, last year’s winner of the Ig Nobel Public Health Prize for her Emergency Bra, a […]
photo via TresSugar TresSugar: 8 signs you’re a dirty fighter. CollegeCandy: Maybe the Dutch are onto something? (Talking sex, not footwear.) YourTango: 7 tips for beginning an open relationship. EdenFantasys’ Sexis: Your travel guide to the island of Machismo. TheFrisky: How to advertise a vibrator on TV. (Hint: don’t call it a vibrator.) TomFoolery: Keys […]
If you’re in New York City next Thursday night and want something fun and fabulous to do, go to the 4th annual Naughty Auction benefiting the National AIDS Fund (which leverages resources, develops leadership and advocacy, and fosters community innovation to prevent new HIV infections and care for people living with HIV/AIDS). The party, held […]
photo by ValtheKid 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 & […]
image by Caveman_92223 As regular readers of this blog will know, one of our pet peeves is when scientific research about sex and love gets twisted and “re-interpreted” and boiled down and sexed up to make a juicy magazine or newspaper headline. (And yes, we have definitely been guilty of this tendency ourselves, at times. […]
photo of Old Faithful by Chuck Martin A college-student contributor friend of ours, who wishes to remain anonymous, has a confession to make: I was sixteen when I first started masturbating. I may have been something of a latecomer to the game, but what I lacked in experience I soon made up in frequent practice. […]
Dr. Kate is an OB/GYN at one of the largest teaching hospitals in Boston and she answers your medical questions here once a week. To ask her your own question, click here. Dear Dr. Kate, I’m a girl who likes it rough. Not a little bum-smack here, a little hair-pull there, but slap-me-across-the-face, black-bruises-for-two-weeks rough. The […]
photo by Ezyan Y. In response to Your Call: How Can They Maintain Intimacy If They Can’t Kiss, rhapsodyblue graciously proves that if you throw your problems into the community swap pile, you’ll most likely gladly take yours back. And the fact that rhapsodyblue gives such good, positive, supportive advice so gently, without telling the […]
You wait your whole life for a book making fun of hippie seventies sex manuals and then, boom, two come along in a month — what are the odds? But only one of them includes the top five pastry-related euphemisms for female genitalia, and only one of them includes a suggested list of effective safe […]
Advice from three of our guy friends. This week they answer the following: “Why do some men — single, married, in relationships, straight, gay, bisexual, etc. — deny masturbating?” To ask the guys your own question, click here. Gay Engaged Guy (Joel Derfner, author of Swish): Are you serious? I’ve never met a man who […]
photo by stevendepolo 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 recently dreamed that I went back to college as I am now — a twenty-six year old. I ended […]
According to the movie THE SOCIAL NETWORK (in theaters October 1st; we got a sneak preview last week), Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg –portrayed brilliantly by Jesse Eisenberg — was just trying to prove himself cool when he created the site while he was still a student at Harvard. He was a geek who couldn’t get […]
photo by denis.todorut CollegeCandy: How to turn a walk of shame into a stride of pride. YourTango: 7 ways to stay positive about dating. EdenFantasys’ Sexis: According to advertisers, women don’t have — let alone enjoy — sex. TheFrisky: Instituting the 5-minute-rule. TresSugar: 5 first date nightmares. TomFoolery: The new in-thing — plastic surgery for […]
