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Pine-Sol Ad Jumps On Housework-Improves-Sex Bandwagon

photo from Porn for Women Finally! An ad for a cleaning product that doesn’t feature a woman going into an orgasmic paroxysm over a new mop. Only on Madison Avenue does doing the chores turn a woman on. Sure, Pine-Sol may have shamelessly ripped off the Porn for Women books with their new ad, but […]

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The First (All) Gay Superhero Comic

If you suspected a few members of the Justice League of America were gay (hello, Aquaman?) and always wished they’d come out of the closet, there’s now a new ALL-gay superhero comic just for you. It’s called Spandex. What it lacks in artistic skill (visually speaking, this ain’t no DC Comic), it makes up for […]

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A Feminist in Fox’s Clothing? Megan Fox in the NYTimes Magazine

cover image from the Sunday NYTimes magazine We weren’t sure how or why the sex symbol with diarrhea of the mouth, Megan Fox, got an entire cover article dedicated to her in the New York Times Sunday magazine. Is she really such a cultural force? She’s been in like a whopping two movies (we’re counting […]

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Twilight, Take Me Away!: Teen Vampires & Moms Who Love Them

photo by Paige Gabert Click here to read our article for New York magazine this week on area moms who take a bite out of the big Twilight apple. You can also read our “director’s cut” of the piece, which includes more quotes and info, after the jump:

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Blog Snog: Stiff Nights, Sex Amnesia & Wild Hen Parties

A weekly roundup of some of our favorite (and not so favorite) sex- and love-related posts from various blogs and websites: GoodVibes investigates the risks of herbal erection pills in light of the FDA’s recent warning about a product called Stiff Nights. YourTango reports on the sexual side effects of Thanksgiving (and no, it doesn’t […]

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Rihanna’s Domestic Abuse Sells Albums — So What?

Rihanna’s album, “Rated R,” is — not coincidentally — on sale now Some people have been questioning Rihanna’s choice to wait to talk about her domestic abuse right until the release of her new album. Um, what? First of all, that’s just the way the magazine-TV-PR-celebrity-promotional circle jerk works: celebrities don’t tend to chat to magazine writers […]

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Blog Snog: Micky D’s, Sex Myths & Twitter

A weekly roundup of some of our favorite (and not so favorite) sex- and love-related posts from various blogs and websites: Lemondrop finds some Japanese commercials for McDonalds that are scarier than Ringu. TresSugar highlights a truly disturbing story about 20 witnesses doing nothing to stop a gang rape. Tomfoolery offers guys some funny relationship […]

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SpatSolver, the Ultimate Argument Resolution Device

Infomercial parodies are a fine art that only a few have mastered. But we think YourTango has just joined the ranks of elite spoofers with their “SpatSolver.” We guarantee you’ll be wishing this thing was real in seconds! Yeah, the commercial goes on a little too long, and the free “Apologizer” is pretty unfunny, but […]

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O-Face Video Site Beautiful Agony Turns Five

BeautifulAgony.com launched in 2004 as a response to what the founders saw as a vacuum of real erotica on the Internet. It features videos of contributors’ o-faces, i.e. orgasms from the neck up. Hundreds and hundreds of videos later — they update each weekday — the site is still going strong. It’s heavy-breathing sexy without […]

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Blog Snog: Unslutty Costumes and Spooky Pick-Up Moves

photo by AMagill A weekly roundup of some of our favorite sex- and love-related posts from various blogs and websites: Sick of Halloween costumes where the prefix “slutty” is added to everything? TresSugar has some excellent ideas for girl-power-inspired Halloween costumes to wear tomorrow night. No sluttiness required! YourTango advises you on how to date a […]

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Halloween Haiku Contest Winners

photo by zenobia joy Last week we asked you to submit one or more haikus that combined love and/or sex with the macabre in honor of Halloween for the chance to win a LoveHoney “Death by Orgasm” mini-vibe. Eight of you delivered the 10 winning mini-poems — congratulations! (Those who’ll receive more than one bullet […]

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Who Gets to Keep the Ring After a Broken Engagement?

Our friend Robin Epstein and her sister Amy Epstein Feldman just wrote a hilarious (not to mention helpful) book called  So Sue Me, Jackass! Avoiding Legal Pitfalls That Can Come Back to Bite You at Work, at Home, and at Play. Over the past few weeks, we’ve published excerpts answering questions like “Can you keep […]

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CALLING ALL TWILIGHT-OBSESSED MOMS!

photo from Summit Entertainment We’re looking for women, specifically mothers, in the greater NYC area who have a secret or shameless obsession with Twilight — either the books or the movies or the whole Bella-Edward-Jacob industrial complex. We want to know why it’s so compelling, whether it’s a guilty pleasure, and how it’s affected your […]

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Blog Snog: Books, Body Language & Best Friend Boinking

A weekly roundup of some of our favorite sex- and love-related posts from various blogs and websites: TresSugar compiles the books seen on Mad Men, and wonders where The Feminine Mystique and Sex and the Single Girl are. College Candy’s critique of Cosmo’s body language decoder — brilliant. A Frisky contributor writes about doing her […]

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Living Together 7 Years = Common Law Married?

photo by adactio Our friend Robin Epstein and her sister Amy Epstein Feldman just wrote a hilarious (not to mention helpful) book called So Sue Me, Jackass! Avoiding Legal Pitfalls That Can Come Back to Bite You at Work, at Home, and at Play. Over the past three weeks, we’ve published excerpts answering questions like “Can […]

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Halloween Haiku Contest *Deadline Passed*

photo by zenobia joy We’ve teamed up with the UK sex toy store LoveHoney this Halloween to give you the chance to win one of their “Death by Orgasm” vibes: “Experience the most intense ‘La Petite Mort’ with this amazingly powerful bullet! Supplied in a cute coffin case.” It comes in black, natch. So send […]