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FAILblog Can Help Mend a Broken Heart

We were once fond of telling people who’ve been dumped to buy a box of red wine and watch some good mindless action movies. But we’ve now got a better idea: buy a box of rose (it is summer, after all) and spend a few hours scrolling through the archives of FAIL Blog. (If you […]

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Books: The Other Side of Desire

The Other Side of Desire is in bookstores now We’ve read — or at least skimmed — hundreds of books about sex in our ten years in the biz, and our shelves are stacked with tomes on everything from gays in the military to the science of seduction. Some educate us, some make us laugh, […]

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Blog Snog (07-03-09)

penis party tray A weekly roundup of some of our favorite sex- and love-related posts from various blogs and websites: One Glamour reader and her penis-shaped chip-and-dip dish…at the airport. College Candy’s got a smart essay on the small-mindedness of having “a type.” Feministing questions whether marriage is really working like the NYTimes suggested. YourTango’s […]

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Trailer for “Couples Retreat”

We will always have a soft spot for Vince Vaughn and Jon Favreau for giving us “You’re so money” and “Baby’s all growns up.” And we want to love everything they’ve done ever since. But often, we can’t. Hello, Made? Likewise, we want to love “Couples Retreat” — after all, it sounds right up our […]

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The Top 100 Breakup Songs of All Time (First Draft)

This is the first of a series of posts we’ll be doing on the best breakup songs of all time. The below 100 was originally published in our book BUH BYE: The Ultimate Guide to Dumping and Being Dumped (which was called “hilarious and fantastic” by our one Amazon reviewer). Naturally, we like the list, […]

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Anti-Domestic Violence Ad Changes When You Look At It

“It happens when nobody is looking” is the tag line for this award-winning Amnesty International PSA about domestic violence. Installed in a bus stop in Germany, it features an eye-tracking device so that when people look at it, the image morphs from a scene of domestic violence into a scene of domestic bliss. (The image […]

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Viagra for Your Intellect

Although the Internet has successfully reduced our collective attention span to the time it takes to watch “nunchucks pro” fall flat on his face, there are still some great online opportunities for enlightenment if you apply some patience and commitment. Fora.tv, for example, is a vast “collection of unmediated video drawn from live events, lectures, […]

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Please Help Your Friendly Neighborhood Sex Writers by Clicking Below

photo by Studio Mohawk ***CLICK HERE!*** It’s a link to our SUNfiltered post on The Top 10 Things Your Father Inadvertently Taught You About Sex. By clicking on any of the links to it in this post you’ll help us try to win a most-trafficed-post contest, which will help us keep EMandLO.com up and running. […]

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Blog Snog (06-26-09)

Bacardi ad via Jezebel A weekly roundup of some of our favorite sex- and love-related posts from various blogs and websites: Bacardi uses misogyny to sell alcohol to women and then apoloogizes…kinda. We’re not buying it (the rum or the apology). YourTango’s Tom Miller shares 9 ways that condoms and communism are alike. (#6: James […]

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Books: True Confessions of a Male Escort

photo by crazytales562 Andrew Rosetta (not his real name) was an escort in London for ten years, where he made thousands of pounds a week. He tells all in his new memoir, Whatever She Wants: True Confessions of a Male Escort. We had about ten million questions we wanted to ask him, but we limited […]

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Princesses Having a Hard Time with Their “Happily Ever After”

“Cinder 3” by Dina Goldstein Princesses can’t seem to catch a break these days. People are poo-poo-ing Disney’s “The Princess and the Frog”; they’re criticizing princesses not only for raising passive human dolls, but for turning those kids into spoiled little brats; even guys, who normally don’t pay attention to this stuff, have had enough […]

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Tampax — Yes, Tampax — Makes Awesome Little Indie

Okay, we know it’s just one big commercial, but we don’t care: “Zack 16” is a great little piece of movie-making. At the beginning of this 4-part series (which you can watch in one go), Zach wakes up to find his boy parts replaced by girl parts! Sure, it trades in some tired old cliches […]

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Blog Snog (06-19-08)

“Bridget Jones’ Diary” drawn on Jeremy Piven  by Lemondrop A weekly roundup of some of our favorite sex- and love-related posts from various blogs and websites: Sick of the “naked chicks with writing on them” theme in men’s mags, Lemondrop spoofs Esquire‘s latest cover, which features a nude Bar Refaeli covered in text from a […]

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Contest Winners: Name That Schlong!

The marmoset penis, a.k.a. jacchus hammer Thanks to everyone who entered our Name That Schlong contest, inspired by the “Why Vagina” episode of the second season of wacky Isabella Rossellini’s “Green Porno” series on SundanceChannel.com. As all but one of you guessed, the arrow is indeed pointing to the marmoset’s penis — not that you […]

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Dating Horror Story #483

KRISTEN WIIG & BRIAN PETSOS in “Barry” Funny. (Until the whole little sexual assault thing at the end.)

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Books: American Parent

 Sam Apple just came out with his second memoir (after Schlepping Through the Alps) called American Parent. From it, we learned that The Lamaze Method was created by Stalinists and based on false science that was forced upon the Soviet scientific community because the government couldn’t afford pain relief drugs for women in labor. […]