YourTango: Less tweeting, more talking — why Twitter killed your relationship. The Frisky: 10 reasons why spring is the best time to hookup (in GIFs). The Date Report: 13 TV episodes to watch if you’re going through a breakup. Nerve: What your body type says about your sex life, according to science. Pop Sugar: You’ll […]
Emma Stone went viral this week when she called out her boyfriend, Andrew Garfield, for his casual sexism during a Q&A session promoting The Amazing Spider-Man 2. When a little boy asked Garfield how Spider-Man got his costume, he said: “He made it. He made it with his bare hands. He sewed it… It’s kind of […]
Lelo’s Etherea Silk Cuffs Mother’s Day is just around the corner! Sure, you could get her some nice flowers…again. Or you could get her something she’ll really enjoy: our new book, 150 SHADES OF PLAY: A Beginner’s Guide to Kink! Hear us out: Moms loved the Twilight series, but secretly wished there was more sex […]
photo via Wiki Commons Colombian novelist and Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez died yesterday at the very respectable — but still heartbreaking, to his fans everywhere — age of 87. He is irreplaceable as a writer. In addition to bringing magical realism to the masses, he practically invented a new language for talking about love and sex […]
photo via The Date Report YourTango: How jealousy affects your relationship… and your sex life. The Frisky: An open letter to cunnilingus (about how we’re never going to be friends). The Date Report: So are you supposed to have dogs in your online dating profile or not? Nerve: 10 tips from Christian sex blogs that […]
available on Amazon Freud, Schmroid. If you’re looking for a good book on the interpretation of dreams, check out the one by our very own Lauri Loewenberg, dream interpreter extraordinaire! Dream On It: Unlock Your Dreams, Change Your Life (published by St. Martin’s Press) features hundreds of real dream interpretations and a comprehensive dream symbol […]
The two of us often struggle with erotica. On the one hand, we think it’s an awesome resource (and by resource, we do of course mean wank material) for women who are easily squicked by porn –by its cheesy dialogue, its fake boobs, and its even more fake orgasms. On the other hand, we are […]
photo via Pop Sugar Pop Sugar: Which love story should you read on vacation? Take the quiz. Your Tango: The worst breakup of her life — and how she survived it. The Date Report: The 13 people you will see on Tinder. Nerve: By 2015 the average person will be multiracial and really good-looking — […]
Author Kate Monro has managed to make us jealous of her job: searching the world for first-time tales that don’t often get told. In her new book, “Losing It: How We Popped Our Cherry Over the Past 80 Years,” she picks up where Nancy Friday left off, letting a wide range of people — from a 90-year-old […]
photo via Flickr Violet Blue is one of the most prolific sex writers we know — we’ve literally lost count of how many books she’s written — and yet she’s not the slightest bit annoying, so we can’t hate her for this. The latest in her grand oeuvre — we’re pretty sure she’s going to tip […]
photo via flickr All the buzz right now about anonymous secret-sharing apps like Whisper, Secret, and Yik Yak makes us feel really old — after all, PostSecret has been doing this for almost a decade already. The main difference, of course, is that PostSecret requires you to put some thought into your secret: You mail […]
photo via flickr The Frisky: Infographic: The cum rang hierarchy (no, seriously). Your Tango: Should you go to couples therapy before there’s a problem? The Date Report: Why Target is the absolute best place for a first date. Nerve: The 5 most awkward sex education videos in history. Pop Sugar: Which country singer is your […]
APRIL IS National Poetry Month. So to have your new book of poems be named one of the Books of the Week by Publishers Weekly this week has got to feel doubly good. Thus, a big congrats to our friend Mark Bibbins, whose new book is called “They Don’t Kill You Because They’re Hungry, They Kill […]
photo via Flickr We don’t know how we missed Julia Sweeney talking about giving The Talk to her curious 8-year-old daughter, but it’s definitely worth a reshare/revisit four years later. Parents, watch and learn (in some cases what not to do): MORE LIKE THIS ON EMANDLO.COM: When Parents Text Moms Are Kinky People Too […]
photo via Date Report The Date Report: The rise of ghosting (i.e. “And then I never heard from them again”). The Frisky: 12 tips for “consciously uncoupling” like Gwyneth and Chris. Your Tango: This is what real love looks and feels like. Tres Sugar: “Promposals” are the new proposals. Nerve: A look inside the buckwild parties at […]
This week’s most fun hashtag trending on Twitter was #RuinAChildrensBook. Given that we each have two small kids and we’ve been writing about sex for fifteen years — often between diaper changes and school runs — this hashtag was practically made for us. Here are our favorite ruined book titles that we posted to Twitter […]
