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5 Ways to Practice Mindfulness in the Bedroom

photo by Daniel Sandoval We met Wendy Strgar, founder of the company Good Clean Love, at a conference in Vegas (as one does) a few years back and were instant fans. Good Clean Love makes organic love products — for example, lubes that actually smell good, and aren’t packed with nasty artificial sugars (which can […]

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New York City Makes the Heart Grow Fonder

Ariel Sabar’s new book, Heart of the City: Nine Stories of Love and Serendipity on the Streets of New York, follows couples from the 1940s to the present whose matchmaker was New York City. We chatted with him about location-location-location — and what it means for love. EM & LO: What got you first interested […]

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Blog Snog: Vintage Vibrator Ads

EdenFantasys’ Sexis: Vintage vibrator ads CollegeCandy: The first ever Slutwalk TresSugar: The sex appeal of spectacles MyDaily: The top 5 probs couples admit to a therapist TheFrisky: Can you tell real Cosmo advice from made-up shit? YourTango: Why the man-child epidemic is everyone’s problem

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Blog Snog: 5 Ways to Keep Your Vajayjay Happy

photo via Flickr CollegeCandy: 5 ways to keep your vajayjay happy EdenFantasys’ Sexis: Why we’re obsessed with big boobs and six packs YourTango: 5 reasons having sex is better than being skinny TresSugar: 5 facts about the female condom TheFrisky: Vajazzling your genital warts (this is NOT medical advice) MyDaily: 6 ways to spot a […]

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Let’s Talk About Sex (a Documentary)

Its title may be tired, but the documentary LET’S TALK ABOUT SEX is as relevant and necessary as ever in a country that’s schizo about sex, with teens paying the price in crazy rates of pregnancy and STDs. A winner of the Youth Award at the Mostra de Ciencia e Cinema Festival and an official […]

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The 10 Types of Sex Dreams

available on Amazon Freud, Schmroid. If you’re looking for a good book on the interpretation of dreams, check out the brand new 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 […]

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Wave of (Female Genital) Mutilation

ActivistResource.org apprised us of a 2009 documentary being screened in our neck of the woods (Hudson Valley) tonight called Mrs. Goundo’s Daughter, so we checked out the trailer. It’s the story of one woman’s quest to save her young daughter from the horrors of the African tradition of female genital cutting. In her native Mali, […]

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Blog Snog: A Brief History of Naked Sushi

photo via Flickr TresSugar: A brief history of naked sushi MyDaily: Getting offered 10K to marry a dude. TomFoolery: The 9 new rules of cell phone etiquette TheFrisky: 7 tips for sexting someone you barely know EdenFantasys’ Sexis: The problems with obligatory sex CollegeCandy: Can we stop with the slut shaming already? YourTango: What  you […]

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Victorian Erotica Embroidery, Vulva Jackets & Vajewelry

This week, Regretsy had a whole slew of vagina-focused merch highlighted, including (but not limited to) vulva jackets and vajewelry. But there’s a lot of crap out there that takes time to get on the fail blog of Etsy — right now, we’re waiting for a snarky entry on this Victorian erotica embroidery (three words […]

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Zions, and Mormons, and Polygs, Oh My!

photo by Stephanie Sinclair for the New York Times Magazine There seems to be Mormonism and polygamy in the air lately (at least for us), so we wanted to spread the love to you and you and you and…: Escape — Just finished this crazy page-turner of a memoir from Carolyn Jessop, one of the […]

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7 Personality Types to Avoid When You’re Dating

photo by Carlos Madrigal In a world of Facebook “likes” and online dating questionnaires that seem to narrow down the soul-mate search to a simple (and yet oh so witty!) checklist of wants and needs, it’s easy to focus on the superficial ways in which we do or don’t connect with each other. And granted, […]

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MyBadParent.com

Feeling bad about accidentally dropping your kid on his head? MyBadParent.com will make you feel better immediately. It’s a collection of kid and parent images (culled from various Internet sites as well as submissions) that you won‘t see in Parenting Magazine, ranging from the choreographed-for-a-laugh to someone-call-Social-Services-immediately. It’s like if FAILblog had a baby — […]

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Blog Snog: 10 Famous On-Screen Merkins

TheFrisky: 10 famous on-screen merkins (yes, we’re talking pubic wigs). EdenFantasys’ Sexis: How environmental factors can adversely affect the family jewels. MyDaily: If you’re fascinated by “Sister Wives,” you’ll love this. CollegeCandy: A true story about an emotionally abusive relationship TresSugar: How taken friends can make great matchmakers. YourTango: 7 things to give up to […]

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Love Hurts — But Sometimes Sex Hurts More

photo by Janine For the past few weeks we’ve been talking about sex that hurts — and not in a heartache kind of way. Two weeks ago we published an excerpt from When Sex Hurts: A Woman’s Guide to Banishing Sexual Pain. Then last week we published a basic overview of the causes of painful sex. […]

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I Love You But…

Girlfriend & boyfriend Alex Holder and Ross Neil are both artists and creatives in advertising. Last year, they launched their online picture book about relationships, LoveYouBut.com. It focuses on “the moment in a relationship when you realise you don’t love someone completely, because there is one little thing that keeps bothering you. When it bothers […]

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Blog Snog: 20 Famous Foks You Can Have Sex with Tonight!

TheFrisky: 20 famous folks you can have sex with tonight! (via their branded condoms) TomFoolery: 8 things Charlie Sheen can teach us about breakups. EdenFantasys’ Sexis: How to turn someone down not-exactly gently. MyDaily: The pros and cons of separate beds. CollegeCandy: 10 more things college kids should know about sex. TresSugar: The crazy things […]