photo by vsmoothe Goodvibes takes your most treasured childhood holiday icons and makes them sex related. Wrong. Funny, but wrong. How did we get to the end of another decade already? The Frisky lists the top ten sex trends of the naughties (and we promise never to use that term on this site again). LemonDrop examines […]
The movies are a great place to learn about life, including your love life. Let the characters in these ten Sundance Festival films make the big dating and mating mistakes so you don’t have to: Once: Sometimes the best love affairs are the ones you never have (i.e. the fantasy is often better than the […]
On the one hand (heh, heh), these types of gloves could be seen as putting female sexual pleasure first (this move only works on women for obvious reasons) since men don’t really get any focused stimulation while delivering said move — it’s pretty anti-phallocentric, which is nice for a change. On the other hand, let’s […]
Our Top 100 Breakup Songs post continues to be such a favorite on our site that we decided to call on you for more musical suggestions: This time your favorite songs and/or albums to have sex to. Leave your suggestions in the comments section below, and be sure to tell us what kind of sex […]
photo via Foxtongue Did you know that fairy tales used to be pretty X-rated? But then the Brothers Grimm et al deleted all the dirty parts — the party poopers! — to make them more family-friendly. Not unlike Anne Rice’s late ’80’s Sleeping Beauty trilogy, the new book In Sleeping Beauty’s Bed: Erotic Fairy Tales […]
photo via TresSugar TresSugar lists five ways to avoid a holiday sex slump. Who knew that stuffing yourself silly with turkey and pie wasn’t the recipe for hot sex? Lemondrop rounds up some of the most painful — and most painfully embarrassing — injuries sustained mid-coitus. Our favorite: “Sometimes I fall in love during sex, and […]
photo from SUNfiltered Oh, man, this picture made our December! Bradford Shellhammer, one of our fellow bloggers over at SUNfiltered (the Sundance Channel blog we write for), posted this awesome image of adorable Syracuse student Chris Pesto protesting the unfashionable, pea-brained protesters of homosexuality. Someday soon there will be no need for this kind of […]
We’re suckers for Christmas. The bright lights, the gingerbread houses, the cheesy music, the British “crackers,” the ability to eat and drink to excess without being considered a glutton or an alcoholic! We especially love that cozy feeling that comes from watching favorite movies with a wintery vibe — not necessarily official Christmas movies, but […]
image by hauntedpalace Thanks to The Writer’s Almanac with Garrison Keillor on NPR today, we learned it was James Thurber’s birthday (12/8/1894-11/2/1961). He was a celebrated American writer and wit, best known for his short stories and cartoons in The New Yorker. While on staff there, he shared a small office and became great friends […]
The Sweetest Kiss: Ravishing Vampire Erotica is on sale now Depending on whom you ask, the lack of sex in the Twilight saga is either the essence of its appeal or its greatest flaw. If you’re squarely in the latter category, then you might want to turn to the new book The Sweetest Kiss: Ravishing […]
photo by toestubber The transformative power of burlesque dancing, according to one Lemondrop contributor. Susannah Breslin explains why porn ain’t so empowering. She’s talking to you, Oprah. YourTango features some informative posts in honor of World AIDS Day (this past Tue). The 6 things Tomfoolery learned about sex from Saved By The Bell. One College […]
The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell Turns out we were wrong in our Roth prediction — this year’s Bad Sex Award ended up going to Jonathan Littell for his novel The Kindly Ones. Other fancy-pants runners up included Paul Theroux, Nick Cave, Amos Oz, and John Banville. The judges said very nice things about Littell’s […]
Last year we threw a holiday party and wanted to avoid the season’s musical dead horses. Don’t get us wrong: we’re suckers for anything Burl Ives or Andy Williams around this time of year, but for a festive get-together of friends we wanted something slightly more unexpected: a mix of both new and old but […]
photo by spine YourTango suggests three ways to celebrate Thanksgiving if it’s just the two of you this year. Lemondrop lists the 11 blasts from the past you’ll meet at your hometown bar on Black Friday. The Frisky tells you what booze to bring to Thanksgiving dindin. Goodvibes gets the holiday season in gear with […]
photo of Nick Cave via Los Angeles Times If there’s one thing the Brits are good at, it’s laughing about sex, whether it’s lowbrow, bum-pinching humor — paging Benny Hill — or the highbrow upper echelons of London’s literary society. The cool kids in the latter category are definitely at the Literary Review magazine, with their […]
image by JessAndTheCity (not the photograher in the story, fyi) A weekly roundup of some of our favorite (and not so favorite) sex- and love-related posts from various blogs and websites: LemonDrop reports on a bride who sued a photographer for posting online racy photos of her taken as she was getting ready for her […]
