Confessions
Comment of the Week: Don’t Spread Your Seed…All Over Your Hotel Room

photo via Flickr Our inner uninhibited adventurers are often in conflict with our inner Miss Manners, which is why we got a kick out of Matbo’s comment about the recent Confession “7 Reasons to Love Hotel Sex“: Oh the germs, the germs! Also I’m all for being loud in bed, but don’t exagerate (“won’t someone […]

Dear Em & Lo
How to Understand His Porn Habit

photo via flickr Is masturbating to porn cheating? Readers are always asking us this question, and the masturbator in question is pretty much always a man. Sometimes his female partner writes to us, asking if she’s right to feel cheated on. Other times the man himself writes to us, asking why his partner can’t understand […]

Toys
How to Defeat Zombies Using Sex Toys

This Halloween, UK sex toy retailer Love Honey has a video series entitled “How to Defeat Zombies Using Sex Toys.” The production value is almost as good as anything on “The Walking Dead” (the difference being that you actually care about the characters in the sex toy videos — ha!). It’s a silly gimmick — one we […]

Wise Guys
Our New Wise Guys Advise Women on How to Ask Men Out (Part 2 of 2)

photo via Flickr A few new men have joined the ranks of our Wise Guys! They’ve all answered the following question: “What’s the best way for a woman to ask a guy out?” Half of them gave their answers last week; meet the rest of them below: Single Bisexual Guy (Jack):The best answer to this […]

Dream Interpretation
Dream Interpretation: I Do It With My Cousin’s Boyf…and I Like It

photo via Flickr 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. Got a dream you want Lauri to analyze? Click here to submit it) This week, a reader asks Lauri: I keep having very strange dreams about […]

Toys
And Now for Something Truly Terrifying

Halloween is a week today, so we guess you’ll be thinking one of two things: Either, “What’s a cute Halloween couples costume for me and my sweetie?” Or, “Which fake monster vagina should I have sex with on Halloween — the zombie vagina or the vampire vagina?” No? Well, just in case you change your […]

Websites
Blog Snog: 10 Halloween Costumes That Should Never Be Sexy

CollegeCandy: 11 things men don’t need to know about women (skip #5, and #6, maybe #2 and…) TresSugar: 10 Halloween costumes that should never be sexy. YourTango: 3 steps to better sex. EdenFantasys’ Sexis: Bad science doesn’t justify circumcision. TheFrisky: 13 places to hide your vibe. How About We: 5 things you need if you want […]

Vids
This American Laugh: Ira Glass Sex Tape

If you’re an NPR junkie, you’re going to love this. It’s an 11-minute spoof of a “This American Life” episode featuring a story about host Ira Glass making a celebrity sex tape. All the elements are there: Ira Glass’s go-to phrases, input from Alex Blumberg, the clever mood music, the end credits with a shout out […]

Dear Em & Lo
Your Call: How Can She Get Into Sex Again?

photo via flickr 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. I’ve been married […]

News
Naked News: Can You Tell Me How to Get (Off) to Sesame Street?

photo via Flickr This is just wrong: the Sesame Street YouTube channel was hacked and, yes, porn was put up. Ew, gross: A study finds that almost one in 10 Texas 6th graders has had sex. Something to make you feel a little better about the recession: materialists have less happy marriages. In scary hardcore zealot news: the “zygotes […]

Personal Essays
7 Reasons to Love Hotel Sex

photo via flickr EMandLO.com contributor Jewely Hoxie, who is studying Human Sexuality at the University of California Santa Cruz – you can read her blog here – has a confession to make: I love to travel with my boyfriend, mostly because getting a hotel room together is so much fun. A change of scenery not […]

Confessions
Comment of the Week: Ladies, Stop Making Excuses, Start Asking Men Out

photo via flickr Men like it when women ask way more than women like it when men ask. A women who asks guys out will get way more dates than a guy who asks women out. I think sometimes women get rejected and then say that they were rejected because men don’t like aggressive women, […]

Advice
10 Reasons to Love Velcro Wrist Restraints

Etherea cuffs from Lelo available at Eden Fantasies 1. Regular handcuffs can be mighty uncomfortable after a few minutes–in fact, the police-issue kind can actually cause nerve damage. But Velcro cuffs are built for comfort. 2. Sure, there’s something sexy about undoing your own or your man’s tie and co-opting it for your own kinky […]

Toys
Vintage Vibrator Museum

Believe it or not, sex toys weren’t invented by Sex and the City. In fact, the first evidence of sex toys dates back 30,000 years, and there are records and depictions of sex toy use in ancient Greece and Rome. There’s nothing quite that antique in Babeland‘s Vintage Vibrator Museum, but you’ll find plenty of […]

Wise Guys
Our New Wise Guys Advise Women on How to Ask Men Out (Part 1 of 2)

photo via Flickr A few new men have joined the ranks of our Wise Guys! They’ve all answered the following question: “What’s the best way for a woman to ask a guy out?” Meet half of them below, then tune in next Tuesday to meet the rest! Married Bisexual Guy (Bryan Sebeck): It’s not as […]