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The Bed Intruder Costume

A few weeks ago we fondly wrote about the Know Your Meme podcast, and specifically highlighted their coverage of the loveable Antoine Dodson of “Bed Intruder” fame. Well, now he’s got what he (at least) is calling the # 1 Halloween get-up of 2010: The official Bed Intruder Costume! And good for him — why […]

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Blog Snog: 50 Couples Halloween Costume Ideas

YourTango: 50 couples Halloween costumes (our favorite: Double Rainbow). EdenFantasys’ Sexis: 3 ways to get over a breakup (1st, burn his house down…). CollegeCandy: 8 traits of a great wingwoman for college hook-ups. TresSugar: 10 unsexy Halloween costumes. TheFrisky: Their Girl on Girl Column reflects on all the recent gay bashing: “Yes, some people still […]

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Five Phrases to Memorize If You Want to Fight Less

We’re the first people to say that avoiding fights completely in a relationship is not a realistic — nor a particularly healthy — goal. In fact, studies have found that couples who can fight passionately but civilly tend to have stronger romantic connections, i.e. their relationships don’t turn platonic as quickly. In other words, it’s […]

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New Season of Craigslist TV

A few weeks ago, Craigslist TV (on YouTube) launched their second season of mini-documentaries based on real Craigslist ads. (Watch the trailer for the series here.) If you think reading the ads is great entertainment for inducing second-hand embarrassment, try watching them. Our favorite, of course, is still the first one from the first season, […]

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Blog Snog: The 5-Day Challenge to Go from Ice to Nice

CollegeCandy: 5 days to go from ice to nice TresSugar: How to become a Forbes Most Powerful Woman. EdenFantasys’ Sexis: Deep Throat — the Musical. Seriously. TheFrisky: Googling a crush and finding out the very worst. LemonDrop: Are you a comfort creature or a thrill seeker in bed? YourTango: Helping others in their relationships might […]

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Sexy Sesame Street Halloween Costumes?

First the Katy Perry debacle, and now this! Okay, so they are not actually marketed as “sexy” Sesame Street costumes; they’re called “sassy.” We guess there’s a difference. But still, is there nothing sacred? It’s hard enough to find little girl costumes that aren’t all tarted up, but now we have to tart-up the most […]

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How Mr. Condom Made Thailand a Better Place

photo from Getty Images We’ve got our TiVo hooked up to get the latest Ted Talks on our TV, so we were delighted to find Mechai Viravaidya’s presentation “How Mr. Condom Made Thailand a Better Place” in our “Now Playing” list recently. Viravaidya is an eloquent and funny speaker, which alone makes it worth watching […]

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Books – Affection: A Memoir About Sex Addiction and Monogamy

Affection: An Erotic Memoir by Krissy Kneen is a story of compulsive sexual exploration, sex addiction — and, ultimately, blissful, married monogamy. Australian author Kneen was raised by a group of protective and eccentric women who forbade any and every expression of sexuality… and we all know where that leads. We chatted to Kneen about […]

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Blog Snog: How Fantasy Football Can Save Your Relationship

photo by Gil Searcy TomFoolery: How fantasy football can save your marriage. CollegeCandy: Don’t ask don’t tell policies when it comes to STDs on college campuses. EdenFantasys’ Sexis: A new video column about the (awesomely honest) dating life of the woman you know and love from the Midwest Teen Sex Show. TheFrisky: Instituting the “3-month […]

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Dan Savage's "It Gets Better"

A great article in the NYTimes this past weekend about cyberbullying — and in particular cyberbullying over sexual orientation — included this line which really made us stop and think: “the punishment must fit the crime, not the sense of outrage over it.” It’s wise and it’s true, but we’d forgotten that — and it […]

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Blog Snog: 8 Signs You're a Dirty Fighter

photo via TresSugar TresSugar: 8 signs you’re a dirty fighter. CollegeCandy: Maybe the Dutch are onto something? (Talking sex, not footwear.) YourTango: 7 tips for beginning an open relationship. EdenFantasys’ Sexis: Your travel guide to the island of Machismo. TheFrisky: How to advertise a vibrator on TV. (Hint: don’t call it a vibrator.) TomFoolery: Keys […]

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Books: Our Bodies, Our Junk

You wait your whole life for a book making fun of hippie seventies sex manuals and then, boom, two come along in a month — what are the odds? But only one of them includes the top five pastry-related euphemisms for female genitalia, and only one of them includes a suggested list of effective safe […]

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Was Facebook Created Just to Help a Geek Get a Girl?

According to the movie THE SOCIAL NETWORK (in theaters October 1st; we got a sneak preview last week), Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg –portrayed brilliantly by Jesse Eisenberg — was just trying to prove himself cool when he created the site while he was still a student at Harvard. He was a geek who couldn’t get […]

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Blog Snog – How to Turn a Walk of Shame into a Stride of Pride

photo by denis.todorut CollegeCandy: How to turn a walk of shame into a stride of pride. YourTango: 7 ways to stay positive about dating. EdenFantasys’ Sexis: According to advertisers, women don’t have — let alone enjoy — sex. TheFrisky: Instituting the 5-minute-rule. TresSugar: 5 first date nightmares. TomFoolery: The new in-thing — plastic surgery for […]

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Katy Perry’s Cleavage Knows How to Get to Sesame Street

Or rather, how to get kicked off Sesame Street. Perry shot a music video with Elmo for the pre-schoolers’ show featuring a version of her “Hot n’ Cold” hit, this one about playing dress up (natch). Sesame Street does this all the time — kidifying a pop tune with the actual artist; check out Feist’s […]

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To Be Young, Gifted and Black…

…apparently means to be Photoshopped by Elle magazine. Or at least, that’s the theory that’s got ladies mag readers all abuzz. For their 25th anniversary issue, Elle just released 4 different covers featuring 4 different 25-year olds, “young women changing the world” they said, though they forgot to add “in Hollywood.” Let’s be clear, these […]