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The World’s Best G-Spotter Just Got Better

sponsored post Our friends over at LELO have been making big improvements to a lot of their best pleasure objects as part of their 10-year anniversary celebrations taking place throughout 2013. Their latest reveal is the GIGI 2, an even better version of the world’s most positively-reviewed and best-selling G-spotter. How exactly is it better?: 100% […]

Pop Culture
LELO Pleasure Objects Have a Cameo in “The Wolverine”!

sponsored post According to movie goers of The Wolverine, the latest summer blockbuster based on the Marvel Comics superhero, LELO makes a special cameo amidst all of the action and high-flying stunts.  Items like the dual-action vibe Soraya™ and the wearable couples’ massager Tiani ™ 2 make an appearance in a scene in which Hugh Jackman, as […]

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Win a $200 Bridal Pleasure Set in LELO’s Pinterest Contest!

sponsored post Yep, it’s wedding season again, that time of year when church bells ring to celebrate the joining of two souls in wedded bliss — and a million wedding inspiration pictures are pinned on Pinterest! Come on: If you don’t have a dream wedding board on Pinterest, can you really say that you have […]

Toys
The New and Improved Hitachi Magic Wand Is Here to Stay!

We’re incredibly relieved that we didn’t find out how close the Hitachi Magic Wand came to being pulled from the market until after Vibratex swooped in to save the day. It turns out that after decades of people co-opting the famous back massager as a trusty sex toy, Hitachi finally got a bit uncomfortable with […]

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Say “I Do” to Hot Monogamy with LELO’s Bridal Pleasure Set

sponsored post Something old, something new, something borrowed, and something… really blue. LELO’s Bridal Pleasure Set — gorgeously packaged in wedding white, naturally — is here to spice up this year’s wedding season. It’s a saucy and unique gift idea for a bridal shower, bachelorette party, or even a surprise wedding gift — trust us, […]

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New & Novel: Vibrators for Voice Therapy

Vibrators aren’t just for “back massages” anymore! University of Alberta professor David Ley has been using Lelo‘s ultra-powerful external vibe SIRI (pictured above) to help Canada’s performing artists sing and speak with clearer, stronger voices. The SIRI massages vocal cords to reduce vocal tension — it works because the frequency emitted by SIRI, which is between […]

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Top 10 Reasons to Love LELO

LELO celebrated their tenth anniversary in 2013, but any time is a good a time to count the ways we love them. They are this site’s major underwriter — which is reason enough to love them! — but we also consider them friends, and it is honestly a pleasure doing business with them. We’d shout from […]

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Calling All Creatives! LELO’s Search for New Forms of Pleasure!

sponsored post Are you as passionate about design as you are about passion? Have you always wanted to invent your own pleasure object? Do you dream at night of wonderful and gorgeous new ways to turn on the world? Then do we have a contest for you! As part of their ten-year anniversary celebration, LELO is […]

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C Is for Costumes

The following is from our very own naughty dictionary, 150 SHADES OF PLAY: A Beginner’s Guide to Kink. Bolded words signify individual entries that appear elsewhere in the A-to-Z section of the book. Anything with a tie icon  indicates an activity or prop mentioned in the Fifty Shades series (symbolic of the famous woven tie Christian Grey uses to restrain Anastasia Steele…and oh […]

Personal Essays
Top 6 Toys I Fantasize About

Our contributor Jewely Hoxie studies Human Sexuality at the University of California Santa Cruz (read her blog here). She has this to say about the sex toys she wishes were a part of her collection… 1. Whipsmart’s Pleasure Swing A sex swing sounds like a combination of two of the greatest pleasures in life: playing […]

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Today (Fri) Is Your Last Chance to Win a Real LELO Accessory!

We’ll hand it to our sponsor LELO: they came up with a pretty subtle April Fool’s joke in the GÄSM. We mean, who wouldn’t want a cool looking, eco-friendly vibe with excellent customer service and anywhere recharge-ability? Maybe the “fact” that it’s made out of compressed wood pulp and old tires was a bit of a […]

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Dear Em & Lo, I Secretly Used My Wife’s Sex Toy…Up My Butt

Billy, LELO’s male massager Get Personal Advice Publicly on EMandLO.comTry Our New *PRIVATE* Advice Service! Hello Ladies, I am a married guy who occasionally reads your site for some ideas to share with my wife.  It seems like anal play both for him and her is a popular topic. My wife enjoys some occasional backside […]

Pop Culture
Top 10 Celebrity Sex Toy Endorsements

You know how major celebrities like Brad Pitt and George Clooney stoop to appear in advertisements overseas — especially in Asia — on the promise that the ads never show in the U.S.? They shill for everything from cars to booze in ads that look impossibly fake because we are shielded from them. Well, it […]

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Last Chance to Win the World’s First IKEA-Style Vibrator from LELO!

What do you get when you combine luxury with DIY innovation? You get a GÄSM! The world’s first and only IKEA-style vibe, brought to you by our friends at LELO. Just as Swedish brand IKEA revolutionized the furniture industry with its DIY products, LELO has tapped into its Swedish roots and applied the same creativity […]

Personal Essays
Confession: My Top 6 Favorite Lubes

Uberlube is for sale on Amazon A few weeks back, our contributor Jewely Hoxie wrote a post for us titled Top 6 Reasons to Love Lube. This week, our favorite lube cheerleader is back with some specific recommendations. Jewely studies Human Sexuality at the University of California Santa Cruz; you can read her blog here. The best embarrassing […]

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Get Our “150 Shades of Play” Kit on GoodVibes!

“Em & Lo’s Shades of Play Kit” at GoodVibes We’re thrilled to announce that Good Vibrations is our first retail partner for our new book, 150 Shades of Play: A Beginner’s Guide to Kink! We’ve been big GV fans for years, and it’s an honor to work with them — we love what they stand […]