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This Is Your Brain on Facebook

image via Zazzle.com Did you know that when someone “likes” your Facebook status — or, even better, actually comments on it — that warm fuzzy feeling you get is akin to the feeling you get from good food or good sex? Of course you knew that! Why else do you waste so many hours on […]

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Monday Mix: Muppet Dating Advice, Porn Dilemmas, and More

Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens… these are a few of our favorite things making the rounds on the Internets of late: Muppet Dating Advice: An awesome article on Slate explains how everyone is either a Chaos Muppet (Cookie Monster, Ernie, Grover, Gonzo, Animal, Miss Piggy, etc.), or an Order Muppet (Burt, Scooter, Kermit, […]

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Blog Snog: 18 Comebacks to “Why Aren’t You Married Yet?”

How About We: 18 comebacks to “Why aren’t you married yet?” YourTango: 6 surprising myths about infidelity. (Though we take serious issue with #3… clearly they didn’t poll yours truly on the topic.) College Candy: In defense of dating multiple guys at once. TresSugar: Hot hair metal dudes. The Frisky: 7 ways to mess up the morning after. […]

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The Final Word on Vajazzling?

photo via flickr When Jennifer Love Hewitt went on Conan recently, he asked her about vajazzling — the act of adorning one’s genitals with crystals — and she responded,  “It makes you feel saucy, and I don’t know, it’s kind of fun to walk around and just think that nobody has any idea how shiny it […]

Movies
Top 30 #VaginaMovieLines Tweets

To follow up on our Vaginagate roundup post from yesterday, now that the trending on Twitter had died down, here are our top 30 picks for best #vaginamovielines Tweets of the past week, so you can avoid scrolling through the endless stream of mediocrity and get straight to the good stuff: NEGATIVE (from the perspective […]

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Blog Snog: 6 Things NOT to Talk About on a First Date

photo by Spirit Mama College Candy: 6 things NOT to talk about on the first date. YourTango: 10 proud gay and lesbian couples from history. TresSugar: “Prometheus” is out, so here’re some hot pictures of Michael Fassbender.  The Frisky: 5 dating habits to keep while in a relationship. iVillage: Summer drinks recipes, because it’s 5 o’clock somewhere. How About […]

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In Praise of Harold and Maude

photo via flickr You know the worst thing about the movie THERE’S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY? Not the semen hair gel gag, or the clogged toilet, or the zipper in the ball sac. Nope, it’s when Cameron Diaz’s character Mary declares that the movie HAROLD AND MAUDE (released this week for the first time on Blu-Ray) is the […]

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Top 10 Summer Movies to See (a Guess)

Spider-who? Bourne-who? Nevermind summer action blockbusters, this season we’re much more interested in love, family, and friendship with our summer lineup. Of course, that doesn’t mean you won’t find those themes in films about space, but if you’re a more down-to-earth person (literally) then these sassy and saucy flicks will be just right for you. […]

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Blog Snog: Vintage Tampon Advertising

College Candy: 15 signs it’s time to walk away. YourTango: Are you selfish? 6 ways to tell. TresSugar: A look at vintage tampon and pad advertising. The Frisky: 7 life lessons learned from working at Starbucks. HuffPo Women: Ridiculous boob-centric ads. iVillage: Awkward baby shower cakes. How About We: What your bookshelf says to a […]

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A New App Tries to Make Sending Dirty Pics Safer

A reader just tipped us off to this 99 cent app called Peek: it lets you take naughty pictures of yourself and send them to the object of your affection with a little less risk. The recipient can only view the picture once, through a small circular moveable “keyhole”, for only 30 seconds before it disappears (from […]

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Top 10 Gay Sex Scenes in Mainstream Movies

Thanks to the Hays Code, gay characters were largely missing from the movies up until 1968. And even more recently than that, it was considered career suicide for a male actor to “play gay.” These days, it’s not hard to find gay characters in mainstream Hollywood films — the gay best friend has become a […]

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Em & Lo Interviewed on The Interview Show

Yep, we just referred to ourselves in the third person…again. Remember a few weeks ago we told you we were going to be on The Interview Show in Brooklyn? No? Well, here’s the video of us on Chicago comedian and humor columnist Mark Bazer’s show anyway. We thought he was going to be asking us things like […]

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Blog Snog: 8 Myths About Sex Differences

photo via Flickr College Candy: 5 mistakes we all make dating someone new. TresSugar: 8 myths about sex differences.  The Frisky: 5 ways to screw up a date before it happens. YourTango: Is sexual stereotyping affecting your relationship.  How About We: 7 tips for initiating sex with dignity iVillage: 12 ways to have lazy sex.

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We Wish We Lived in a World Where People Sent These Cards

“Concessions to Romance” card via WrongCards.com “Where would be without romance?” writes the blogger responsible for the awesome (and free!) e-card site WrongCards.com. “Probably living less dramatic lives with more compatible people and much more realistic expectations.” If that sounds like the kind of guy you want writing your greeting cards, then you need to […]

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A Sex Toy Sitcom

Okay, this is the weirdest thing we’ve come across in a while: a low-budge, home-made, episodic sitcom about a family of sex toys. It’s called “The Dildos” — there’s the gynecologist father, the domestic goddess mother, the teenage son JD (Junior Dildo), the younger twin sisters (a double-ended dildo), and the dog (a vibrating bullet). There’s […]

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Top 10 Celebrities with the Best Porn Star Names, Round 2

photo via AMC In response to our post “Top 10 Celebrities with Awesome Porn Names,” we got enough great additional ideas to warrant round two! 1) January Jones (thx to Sofia) 2) Whitney Cummings (thx to ThisGuy) 3) Cobie Smulders (thx to Sage) the next 4 thx to sr123: 4) Dick Armey (ed note: after all, the guy is a […]