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Why Sex Hurts — And We Don’t Mean Heartbreak

photo by Gabriel Delgado Last week we talked about when sex hurts, and why so many women still don’t admit to having this problem. It’s something that we, as sex writers, hear about constantly — it’s a sad but true fact that many women are more open with sex advice columnists than their own gynecologists […]

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“Sex in America with Lisa Ling”

At least, that’s what Ling’s new show on OWN (Oprah’s new tv network) should be called, instead of “Our America with Lisa Ling.” After all, four of the first five episodes focus on matters of sexuality: There’s “Pray the Gay Away,” “Transgendered Lives,” “The State of Sex Offenders,” and tonight at 10pm “Online Brides” (all […]

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Blog Snog: When the Assault on Planned Parenthood Becomes Personal

photo via Flickr EdenFantasys’ Sexis: A moving, personal account of one woman’ relationship with and fight for Planned Parenthood. MyDaily: Naked, online, Ebay revenge. CollegeCandy: A true story about having HPV (who doesn’t these days?). TresSugar: Colleges besides BYU that are strict about sex. YourTango: Can you speak any of the 5 languages of love? […]

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When Sex Hurts — And We Don’t Mean Heartbreak

photo by mistress_f We’ve been writing about sex for more than ten years, and when we started out, the topic that our female readers wanted to hear about most was orgasms — how to have them, either solo watching toonsex xxx or with a partner, how to have them more often, how to have different […]

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A Baby Video on YouTube That’s Actually Art

watch the Las Palmas trailer This doesn’t have much to do with love and sex, except that we love this trailer which features an adorable product of sex. The teaser is from the short film LAS PALMAS by Johannes Nyholm, which just won the Short Film Award and the Audience Award at the Gothenburg Int’l […]

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Blog Snog: Was Juliet Ovulating When She Met Romeo?

YourTango: Was Juliet ovulating when she met Romeo? TheFrisky: 20 morning-after dealmakers and dealbreakers. EdenFantasys’ Sexis: How do lesbians decide who’s in the driver’s seat in bed? MyDaily: How to stop fighting. TomFoolery: On ogling and your G.P.A. CollegeCandy: 5 signs your friend is really a frenemy. TresSugar: 5 things you didn’t know about sex […]

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“Comics Stripped” at The Museum of Sex

For those of you have a hard time reconciling your porn collection with your conscience (who can’t forget that the fornicator before you is somebody’s son or daughter), there’s illustrated pornography, dirty comics, and adult graphic novels. With this kind of erotica, you don’t have to worry about any real-live human animals being harmed in […]

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Blog Snog: A Movie Review of “Orgasm Inc.”

MyDaily: A movie review of “Orgasm Inc.” by Tracy Quan TomFoolery: Is the problem with condoms really the cost? CollegeCandy: Why nobody wants to know that “it’s complicated” on Facebook. YourTango: What a male orgasm feels like. TresSugar: 10 signs he’s a serial monogamist. TheFrisky: A 29-year-old who’s afraid to buy tampons. EdenFantasys’ Sexis: The […]

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Happy Lady Porn Day!

photo via WannaSunggle.com And you thought President’s Day was exciting! Lady Porn Day is the invention of sex blogger Rachel Rabbit White, who tells us, “It’s tough trying to explore porn as a girl. There just isn’t much lady-friendly stag. And, girls aren’t encouraged to talk to each other about porn, the same way we […]

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Blog Snog: The Most Common Bedroom Faux-Pas

photo by demi-brooke CollegeCandy: The most frequently committed bedroom faux-pas. YourTango: 50 best marriage tips ever, in honor of National Marriage Week. EdenFantasys’ Sexis: Honestly communicating about sex with your partner. TresSugar: The do’s and don’ts of flirtexting. TheFrisky: 7 terrible breakups I’m thankful for. MyDaily: A tale of first true love gone wrong. TomFoolery: […]

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Should You Shave Your Legs?

There are idiots out there (not unlike creationists and climate change deniers) who have been sold a bill of goods and believe that the female of the species is naturally hairless, but those with their feet on the ground know that ladies can hold their own in the fur department — it’s what happens when […]

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Blog Snog: The 5 Commandments of Breaking Up

YourTango: The 5 commandments of breaking up (in honor of Break Up with Your Ex Day, Feb 13th). TomFoolery: We could all use a makeover every now and then. EdenFantasys’ Sexis: Choosing between good sex and monogamy. TresSugar: 5 steps to making a man a better lover. TheFrisky: The suckiest Valentine’s Day gifts. CollegeCandy: Can […]

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Blog Snog: 8 Craziest Bachelorettes Of All Time

TheFrisky: The 8 craziest Bachelorettes in “Bachelor” history. CollegeCandy: Guys look at themselves through beer googles. MyDaily: The 5 most common emotional vampires. YourTango: A gal’s guide to breaking up. TomFoolery: Why male sex toys are so sketchy. EdenFantasys’ Sexis: Is social media ruining your dating life? TresSugar: 5 tips for moving in together.

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Art Installation on America’s Dating Trends

If you’ve ever used online personals, you’ll love this: Through February 19th, Bit Gallery in New York City is showing R. Luke DuBois’s latest project, “A More Perfect Union,” which looks at American self-identity through the medium of online dating services: “Culling data from over twenty online dating sites, the work is organized according to […]

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Blog Snog: Being Sexiled in College

photo by SLR Jester CollegeCandy: On being sexiled. MyDaily: What women in different cities like their men to smell like (in Houston, it’s bbq). YourTango: 10 relationship rules for men from Twitter. TomFoolery: Should you crowdsource your lovelife? TheFrisky: 40 — count ’em! — dating mistakes one woman will never make again. EdenFantasys’ Sexis: The […]

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The Onion’s “Invention of the Handjob”

Last week, the Onion News Network premiered on IFC and artfully accomplished what The Daily Show tries to: mercilessly skewering the 24-7 cable news industry (the subtitle is, after all, “News Without Mercy”). It’s exactly what a fake news show should look like, adopting all the slick, epilepsy-inducing bells and whistles of cable news shows […]