Your Tango: Why women cheat: A married man goes undercover on Ashley Madison. The Frisky: The rare fetish survival guide: 3 tips from a woman who has one. PopSugar: Romantic hacks for relationship ruts and dilemmas. Nerve: Confessions of a self-professed Google stalker. How About We: The history of the 69 position.
Since the casting was finally announced this past Monday for the adaptation of the first Fifty Shades of Grey book — with Charlie Hunnam (Sons of Anarchy) as Christian Grey and Dakota Johnson (The Social Network) as Anastasia Steele — the general consensus has been “They got it wrong!” We’re not sure any casting would have […]
The Mod Carosel parody was pretty good, but a little too thin on the politics for our radical feminist tastes. Enter “Defined Lines,” the parody made by some University of Aukland law students for its Law Revue show last week. With its decent production values and pointed yet hilarious feminist message, it’s the Blurred […]
Nerve: Top 10 historically scandalous images that are no biggie now. The Frisky: The 5 pros and cons of dating a co-worker. YourTango: 10 lessons from terrible first dates that actually happened. How About We: “I didn’t change my name after my marriage & neither should you.“ Pop Sugar: Outdoor date ideas for the end of […]
There’s been a LOT of talk this week over Miley Cyrus’s performance at last week’s VMAs. Here’s some of our favorite analysis: The 2013 VMAs Were Dominated by Miley’s Minstrel Show How Ratchet Culture Became The New Implied Bisexuality A 6-Minute Guide to the Prejudices of the Entertainment Industry What Miley Cyrus Did Was Disgusting […]
Daniel Bergner is one of our favorite writers on the topic of sex. A few years back he wrote the awesome book The Other Side of Desire, which we raved about at the time, and then shortly after he wrote a cover story about female desire for the New York Times magazine, which we also […]
ACT II. SCENE II. Capulet’s orchard: Juliet: R, where u @? [No response.] Juliet: helloooo???? [No response. Juliet starts a new text.] Juliet: yo, i think i’m in <3 but our rents h8 each other Romeo: o rly? Juliet: omg! meant that for my bff, lolz. nvm! Romeo: QFT Juliet: ??? Romeo: i feel the […]
photo via MTV.com THE WORST 1. Lady Gaga’s 26 costume changes into smaller and smaller outfits, ending in a Little Mermaid-inspired seashell/thong number. She’s just fucking with us at this point, right? 2. Miley Cyrus’s self-demotion to porny arm candy during her Blurred Lines “duet” with Robin Thicke (or was it the simulated rimming during […]
The Frisky: Why I threw away all of my “sexy” lingerie. YourTango: Constantly winning marriage arguments? You might lose long-term. How About We: Everything I know about dating I learned from soap operas. Nerve: 10 romantic comedies ruined by modern technology. Pop Sugar: Lena Dunham was a 19-year-old virgin.
Afternoon Delight, the directorial debut by Jill Soloway (best known for her work on “Six Feet Under” and “The United States of Tara”), opens next Friday in NY and LA, followed by other cities Sept 6th. It joins a (thankfully) growing number of projects on issues of sexuality from the female perspective with frankness, even […]
College Humor’s original short this week “HBO Should Show Dongs” (below) was made for us: it’s got puns (“We’ve got a boner to pick”), it’s dominated by funny women (usually you get only one token funny chick in bits like this), and it’s all about equal opportunity objectification! The very nature of HBO practically requires […]
photo via flickr Nerve: Why are men still paying for dates? The Frisky: The new video series Date-Ade. YourTango: A detailed history — in timeline form — of the condom. How About We: 7 reasons to date someone who is unemployed. Pop Sugar: The dos and don’ts of seeing your ex — in GIFs! 150 Shades […]
Our next installment of Bedroom Tips for each archetype on ArchetypeMe — the community site which tailors content and products to individual personalities — is out now! Part 1 of this series was on Seduction; this next part is on Satisfaction, wherein we give each of the 10 archetypes 3 tips on techniques and taboos specifically suggested […]
The Frisky: 14 rules for P.D.A. (because people don’t seem to know). YourTango: 10 insane but true things that cause orgasms. How About We: My ex-boyfriend had 27 shark tattoos. Nerve: How to “win” a sex scandal. Pop Sugar: Feminist romance novels to hop into bed with.
Celebrities playing strippers seems to be a sort of rite of passage, a self-inflicted casting couch: Lindsay Lohan, Kristen Stewart, Salma Hayak, Olivia Wilde, Natalie Portman, Jessica Biel, Jessica Alba, Daryl Hannah, Heather Graham, Marisa Tomei, Julianne Hough, Diane Lane, Demi Moore, Elizabeth Berkley, Rose McGowan… we could go on. WTF? And to balance it […]
An official Sundance selection and winner at the Sarasota and the Full Frame Documentary film festivals, AFTER TILLER explores the controversial subject of third-trimester abortions in the wake of the 2009 assassination of practitioner Dr. George Tiller. The procedure is now performed by only four doctors in the United States, all former colleagues of Dr. […]
