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How Fucking Romantic

comic by Dani Lurie on “How Fucking Romantic” This is what the internet is for: How Fucking Romantic is a brand new, wicked cool blog that’s illustrating the Magnetic Fields album “69 Love Songs,” one by one… Read the rest of this post on SUNfiltered

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Blog Snog (05-08-09)

A weekly roundup of some of our favorite sex- and love-related posts from various blogs and websites: Why the hell have we not done away with failed abstinence-only programs once and for all? YourTango’s got a pretty inspiring essay on hope for your sex life post-baby. Livesteez’s 10 signs your man is a scrub. Singlish’s […]

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Blog Snog (05-01-09)

My First Dictionary A weekly roundup of some of our favorite sex- and love-related posts from various blogs and websites: The hilarious Sarah Haskins dishes some tough love on the new reality show Tough Love, which tells single woman to stop being so “weird.” Butchtastic has a fantastic review of this book called Rec Sex. […]

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The 13 Types of Casual Sex

photo by _StaR_DusT_ rec sex: Joy riding, wherein you are happily being ridden or are happily riding someone else. Short for “recreational sex,” this kind of fucking-for-the-fun-of-it usually comes from a positive, happy place; in other words, if you were depressed or heartbroken or enraged, the sex you had shouldn’t officially be called rec sex. […]

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Blog Snog (04-24-09)

Why do beauty pageant contestants always make it so easy…? A weekly roundup of some of our favorite sex- and love-related posts from various blogs and websites: Best Week Ever tells all future Miss USA contestants: Never, ever piss off the gays. Nerve excerpts Jessica Valenti’s new book, The Purity Myth: How America’s Obsession with […]

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Safer Sex Haiku Contest

You could win this Tantalising [sic] Lip Butter that can help save the world! The Body Shop and MTV’s awesomely named Staying Alive Foundation have recently launched an STD awareness campaign called “Yes to Safe Sex” (we would have called it “Yes to Safer Sex,” but we’re sticklers like that). During the campaign the Body […]

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Blog Snog (04-17-09)

Lindsay Lohan’s eHarmony Profile A weekly roundup of sex- and love-related posts from some of our favorite blogs and websites: Funny or Die hosts Linday Lohan’s fake eHarmony ad. Would it be more or less funny if this wasn’t her only starring vehicle in about a decade? Leave it to the Germans to plug condoms […]

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Date Rape Is So Funny We Forgot to Laugh

We’re still not sure why Seth Rogen and Anna Faris are America’s comedic sweethearts. We loved Knocked Up just as much as the next guy, but haven’t the overweight stoner and dumb blonde jokes been done to death? Well, they are America’s comedic sweethearts, which we guess is why Warner Brothers, plenty of movie critics, […]

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Blog Snog (04-10-09)

photo by Tim Wilson A weekly roundup of sex- and love-related posts from some of our favorite blogs and websites: BitchBuzz wonders how much you could have gotten for your virginity. Jezebel responds to Cosmo’s 10 Things Guys Wish We Knew with their 10 Thing We Wish Guys Knew We Knew. Our favorite is number […]

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Andrew Trees on Decoding Love

photo via Decoding Love.com If your Magic 8 Ball is a less-than-reliable dating guide, then author Andrew Trees has a better idea: Why not turn to the latest studies in economics, neurochemistry and game theory instead? We chatted with him about his latest book, Decoding Love: Why It Takes Twelve Frogs to Find a Prince […]

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Merriam-Webster Accused of Pro-Gay Agenda

photo by greeblie While the rest of us were battling it out over gay marriage in courts, newspaper editorials, elections, marches, and barrooms across the country, a little company called Merriam-Webster was quietly making their own call. So quietly, in fact, that even though their dictionary updated the definition of marriage back in 2003 to […]

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Blog Snog (04-03-09)

Thanks to Best Week Ever for downloading this pic before the dress company photoshopped out the pink satin labia. A weekly roundup of sex- and love-related posts from some of our favorite blogs and websites: Best Week Ever finds the perfect classy yet affordable vagina prom gown (not a joke — it’s actually just a […]

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Facebooking the One That Got Away

photo by sixeight A recent article in the NY Times magazine addressed the Faulknerian aspect of the “undead past” on Facebook, while asking what the 25 million Facebook users under 25 could possibly be doing on there: “What do they have to look back on?” Because one of the primary reasons to log onto Facebook […]

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We're in Naked Love on the Sundance Channel Blog

the Sundance Channel’s new blog The Sundance Channel has just launched a spiffy new blog called SUNfiltered. It’s got posts from various writers (e.g. Andrew Hearst and our new BFF Bobbie Redford) on culture, film, green issues, design, music, and love — “naked love“, to be exact. Yours truly will be contributing to the saucier […]

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A New Word for Webster’s: Melon Balling

It’s official! That unspeakable term for the act involving a woman’s boobies and a man’s peen is out — and “melon balling” is in! Arbitrarily and without warning, we closed the polls today on the election of a new word to replace the awful…don’t make us say it (you know, it’s the one with the […]

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Blog Snog (03-27-09)

photo by BruceTurner A weekly roundup of sex- and love-related posts from some of our favorite blogs and websites: A contributor to the new site Kiss and Dish writes an open letter to losers at nightclubs. Is the tween-version of Dora the Explorer just part of growing up or is she now Whora the Sexplorer? […]