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“150 Shades of Play” Is on Kindle for Valentine’s Day!

Our latest book, now available in a discreet Kindle edition We get it: 150 Shades of Play: A Beginner’s Guide to Kink is not necessarily the book you want to be caught reading on the bus, or during your lunch break, and it’s definitely not the book you want sitting on your nightstand when your […]

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Top 8 Love Lessons from “The Bachelor” (New Mexico Is a State)

from “The Bachelor’s” hysterical Twitter feed Okay, it wasn’t the most dramatic rose ceremony ever (because there wasn’t one), but it was the most dramatic episode of this season so far, for sure.  The Emmy for Best Actress in a Reality Show should go to either Britt (“I want 100 kids! I’m an Angelina-Jolie-hot waitress […]

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The Original “Fifty Shades of Grey”

Earlier covers of The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty trilogy In my senior year of high school, I (Lo) read The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty, the first in a three-book series by vampire-genre goddess Anne Rice (who was a fave of mine at the time) writing under the pen name “A. N. Roquelaure.” Except instead of vampires, […]

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Blog Snog: 10 Facts About Vaginas You Probably Didn’t Know

photo via popsugar YourTango: 5 reasons you need a drummer boyfriend, says science. The Frisky: According to Pat Robertson, living with a boyfriend is like murdering 5 people. PopSugar: 10 facts about vaginas you probably didn’t know.  Nerve: Meet the woman putting the kink into film festivals.  150 Shades of Play: Now on Kindle!!! Only $4.99!!! […]

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What the Song “Honey, I’m Good” Song Gets Right About Marriage

On first listen, the country-ish pop hit “Honey, I’m Good” by Andy Grammar shouldn’t appeal to us in the slightest: Some douchey pop star with a pompadour calling the waitress “Honey” and commenting on her amazing ass and how much he’d love to go home with her, while, in the same breath, telling her he’s […]

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Top 5 Love Lessons from “The Bachelor” (Camping, Not Glamping)

photo via @BachelorABC (the caption read: “One of these virginities will be taken tonight.” Brilliant.) The fourth episode of ABC’s “The Bachelor” featured more Emmy-worthy editing, from the tiny violins playing over Ashley “Kardashian’s”s tragic princess soliloquy to the close-up shots of her weave to the sad, foreboding music behind Jillian’s tasteless “Who Would You Rather” […]

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Blog Snog: Why I Plan to Be Fully Submissive to My Husband

photo via flickr YourTango: Why I plan to be fully submissive to my husband. The Frisky: How love is about choice, not chance. PopSugar: Spice up your relationship with this 30-day challenge. Nerve: Me and the fetish wrestlers next door. 150 Shades of Play: Now on Kindle!!! Only $4.99!!! Brush up on BDSM before the movie!!!

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Dick of the Week: William Giraldi

photo via flickr William Giraldi wrote a personal essay for The Baffler called “This Brat’s for You.” Have you encountered this polished turd being bandied about the internet yet? In the piece, Giraldi bemoans the fact that he got paternity leave from his employer for the birth of his first child, became so utterly bored by […]

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Top 10 Love Lessons from “The Bachelor” (Wedding “Crashers” Episode)

photo via ABC’s The Bachelor Last night’s third episode of ABC’s “The Bachelor” continued the season’s new style of embracing the humor along with the histrionics (often via some heavy-handed editing at the women’s expense). For examples of this trend, see Ellen DeGeneres’s recent season recap: Is Chris Soules so boring that the producers’ only recourse […]

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Blog Snog: The 29 Steamiest Movie Sex Scenes of All Time

still from the movie “Titanic” via PopSugar YourTango: 8 Tinder dates from hell, as witnessed by baristas. The Frisky: The dudes of “Sweet Valley High,” ranked. PopSugar: The 29 steamiest movie sex scenes of all time.  Nerve: Rare wisdom from YouTube’s most prolific “sex magic” practitioners. 150 Shades of Play: Now on Kindle!!! Only $4.99!!! Brush […]

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How to Ruin a Date in 5 Words

Some hashtags come and go on Twitter faster than a teen boy on prom night. But #RuinADateInFiveWords is still going strong, and it’s been weeks now! That’s some stamina worth paying attention to. Here are some that have been posted just in the past hour or so: I’m not thirsty, Mr. Cosby by @JohnFugelsang and What size fursuit you […]

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Top 5 Love Lessons from “The Bachelor” (Prince Farming’s First Dates)

photo via ABC’s The Bachelor Last night’s second episode of ABC’s “The Bachelor” proved to be quite entertaining, despite Prince Farming having the personality of a soybean. The producers seemed to pepper the episode with the kind of zany, kooky, funny stuff usually reserved for the closing credits — in order to make up for Chris […]

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What Did You Think of Jeremy Renner’s “Globes” Joke?

screen shot from the Golden Globes on NBC J. Lo wore one of her, shall we say, memorable numbers to the 2015 Golden Globes, the kind of outfit that draws the unblinking stare of even the gayest gay man like greedy raiders of a lost ark. So when she and Jeremy Renner were about to […]

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Blog Snog: No, Your Penis Is Not Too Big to Fit in a Condom

Swedish pop star Zara Larsson’s condom-ed leg, via Instagram YourTango: 7 giant clues your relationship is doomed. The Frisky: Proof that no, his penis is not too big to wear a condom. PopSugar: The shocking porn statistics that no one is telling you. Nerve: Louis CK brilliantly explains why sexism is still alive. 150 Shades […]

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Top 10 Things We Hope the “Fifty Shades” Movie Does Better Than the Book

photo via the movie website The film adaptation of Fifty Shades of Grey, the first book in the mega-selling erotic trilogy by E.L. James, is almost here! It arrives in theaters Valentine’s Day weekend (ladies, get your limos ready!). With the casting of Jamie Dornan (The Fall) as Christian Grey and Dakota Johnson (The Social Network) […]

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Photos of the Week: Weird & Wacky Wedding Cake Topppers

The season premiere this week of “The Bachelor” got us thinking of nuptials, both solid and doomed. So we turned to Getty to see what a wedding search would yield, and we were barraged with a bunch of weird, wacky and, in some cases, downright wonderful wedding toppers. View image | gettyimages.com   View image […]