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Blog Snog: The 10 Big Breakups of 2012

TresSugar: 10 most shocking breakups of 2012. How About We: What to get a new girlfriend for Xmas. HuffPo Women: The 9 worst ads for women this year. YourTango: 5 ways Google changes your relationships. Nerve: How Girls took over Gossip Girls The Frisky: You can stop blaming yourself for being single.

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Joel Stein Likes Us, He Really Likes Us!

Well, the humor columnist for TIME magazine likes our new book 150 Shades of Play. As do a lot of other very cool, smart, good-looking people. You should listen to them and do as they say: “Unlike Fifty Shades of Grey, this was fun to read, informative, and didn’t take eight chapters to get to […]

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Blog Snog: How to, Er, Stuff Your Own Stocking

YourTango: 5 sexy stocking stuffers to give yourself. Nerve: 25 greatest songs about infidelity. The Frisky: 9 kinds of breakups that suck the most. TresSugar: Barack and Michelle’s sweetest PDA moments of 2012. How About We: 6 love lessons from 50 cent. HuffPo Women: Katy Perry thinks she’s not a feminist. Sigh. 150 Shades of […]

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Check Out Our New Site: 150ShadesOfPlay.com

Our brand new book 150 Shades of Play: A Beginner’s Guide to Kink just hit the streets! And it’s got a beautiful  new website to go with it! 150ShadesOfPlay.com has some excerpts (including the book’s full introduction), lots of very flattering praise (from the likes of TIME’s Joel Stein and sex educator icon Betty Dodson!), and […]

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“150 SHADES OF PLAY” Is Here!!!

LELO’s Sutra Chainlink Cuffs and Sussurra Tap Shorts We just had a baby! Our 7th actually. 150 Shades of Play: A Beginner’s Guide to Kink hit the shelves today, just in time for the holidays (barely)! So if you or someone you know loved the Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy by E.L. James but wished […]

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Top 10 Women Born Since 1970 Who Push Back

This article originally appeared on SundanceChannel.com Inspired by the Sundance Channel’s docu-series PUSH GIRLS, about four outspoken young women in wheelchairs — AMC Networks just announced that they’ve started filming a second season — we decided to write about ten women under 40 who push back in their own way. To help us narrow down the list […]

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Blog Snog: 3 Inexpensive But Romantic Holiday Gifts

photo via Flickr YourTango: 3 inexpensive but romantic holiday gifts Nerve: The best and worst of Cosmo’s international editions The Frisky: 7 first dates so terrible, they made the news! TresSugar: Why do women hate on feminism? How About We: 5 things movies get wrong about love HuffPo Women: Chris Brown’s female problem

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Our New Book Is Coming Soon: 150 SHADES OF PLAY!

LELO’s Sutra Chainlink Cuffs and Sussurra Tap Shorts 150 Shades of Play is THE how-to companion piece to the popular erotic trilogy, Fifty Shades of Grey. Out this holiday season from yours truly! Did you love the Fifty Shades series by E.L. James but wish there’d been more guidance when it came to the activities and toys described? 150 […]

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Top 10 Directors Not Afraid of Nudity

If you spend a lot of time analyzing movie sex scenes like we do, you might find yourself rolling your eyes at how many on-screen couples manage to have sex without ever showing any skin…or who fall asleep with a sheet covering them just so…or who always put on a shirt and underpants when they […]

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Blog Snog: How Gratitude Helps Your Relationship

photo via flickr YourTango: How gratitude helps your relationship. Nerve: Nine pro-LGBT companies facing conservative backlash (a.k.a. the excuse you’ve been looking for to justify your bank-breaking Starbucks habit!). The Frisky: 8 reasons to be thankful for the body you have. TresSugar: 6 ways to find alone time during the holidays. How About We: What to […]

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Top 10 Films That Represent the War on Women

While the topic of women’s rights doesn’t have the box office draw of a bunch of dudes getting wasted at a bachelor party, say, or a bride-to-be getting diarrhea in the middle of the street, there are many excellent movies that cover various aspects of the War on Women (either directly or metaphorically)—workplace discrimination, violence […]

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Blog Snog: 5 Smartass Replies to Probing Holiday Questions

photo via Flickr YourTango: 5 Smartass Replies to Probing Holiday Questions Nerve: Why Everyone Should Be Offended By the Term “Friend Zone” The Frisky: 10 Important Moments In The History Of Pubic Hair How About We: 4 Relationships Don’ts, Courtesy of Patraeus HuffPo Women: 8 Great Book Epigraphs About Love TresSugar: How to Be the Sexiest Man Alive

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A Spanking Fetish Without the Cliche Emotional Baggage

photo via flickr We don’t often read the “Modern Love” column in the New York Times Sunday Styles section these days — when you’ve been in the biz as long as we have, it’s easy to get cynical and feel like you’ve heard every story about love and sex there is to tell. But  this […]

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Set Design for Kink.com’s Pornos

Now this is the kind of porn we can really get into: design porn. Literally, cool set design for pornos. California Home + Design went behind the scenes at Kink.com’s studios to take a look at some of their fabricated sets with Christopher Gaw, the head of the design department for the Internet pornography company. […]

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Blog Snog: A Web Cam Girl Falls in Love with a Client

image via Nerve YourTango: How four more years of Obama may affect your relationship. Nerve: An amateur porn actress and web cam girl falls in love with one of her clients. The Frisky: 10 things you’re not allowed to do if a relationship ended badly. How About We: 3 political odd couples we can learn from. […]

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Rosemary’s Baby Could Have Been Made in 2012, 2016…

You hear a lot these days about Republicans rolling back women’s rights all the way to the ’50s and ’60s: vowing to defund Planned Parenthood; to allow employers to decide whether or not their female employees can have their contraception covered; to put the rights of an embryo above those of a woman via the […]