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Personal Essays
Comment of the Week: I’m Jealous of My Wife’s Friends

Reader Jeff posted the following in response to our post, “Your Call: Why Is My Husband Jealous of My Female Friendships?” We thought it would be a great jumping off point for a debate about how to compromise in a relationship when one person wants a lot more solo time with their friends than another. How […]

Toys
Last Chance to Win a Brand New GIGI2! (Odds Are Excellent!)

sponsored post In honor of the new GIGI 2‘s unexpected color option — grey — we’re throwing the contest “What’s YourFavorite Color Pleasure Object?” One random winner will be the lucky recipient of the 100% more powerful and waterproof GIGI 2! You can simply Tweet your favorite color to @Lelo_Sweden with the hashtag #GIGI2 AND/OR post […]

Pop Culture
Great Love Texts from Literature: Romeo & Juliet

ACT II. SCENE II. Capulet’s orchard: Juliet: R, where u @? [No response.] Juliet: helloooo???? [No response. Juliet starts a new text.] Juliet: yo, i think i’m in <3 but our rents h8 each other Romeo: o rly? Juliet: omg! meant that for my bff, lolz. nvm! Romeo: QFT Juliet: ??? Romeo: i feel the […]

How To
What Is the A-Spot?

This is part of our continuing series on Top Body “Spots” that any self-respecting, shall we say, “anatomy enthusiast” should be familiar with. Even if this is old news to you, it’s always a good idea to brush up: The A-Spot a.k.a: A-zone Anterior Fornix AFE zone (anterior fornix erotic or erogenous zone) T-zone (for […]

Toys
Lelo’s Iconic Vibrator, Upgraded: Powerful, Sensual & Oh So Quiet

sponsored post As we mentioned a few weeks back, our friends at LELO have been making major improvements to some of their best-selling pleasure objects as part of their 10-year anniversary celebrations, which are taking place throughout 2013. We already told you about how the world’s best G-spotter, the GIGI2, got even better. Well, today we’d […]

Horoscopes
Your Weekly Horoscopes: 08-26-2013

photo by Simply Schmoopie Each week, we at EMandLO.com predict the course of your love life for the week with our own version of irreverent horoscopes — ignore our advice at your own peril! (Hyperbole intended for dramatic effect.)  aries (Mar. 21st-Apr. 20th) Here’s a crazy idea: Pursue someone who seems nice. You’re familiar with the type? They hold […]

Music
The 10 Best and Worst Moments from the 2013 VMAs

photo via MTV.com THE WORST 1. Lady Gaga’s 26 costume changes into smaller and smaller outfits, ending in a Little Mermaid-inspired seashell/thong number. She’s just fucking with us at this point, right? 2. Miley Cyrus’s self-demotion to porny arm candy during her Blurred Lines “duet” with Robin Thicke (or was it the simulated rimming during […]

Dream Interpretation
Dream Interpretation: My Doctor Has a Penis AND a Vagina

photo via Flickr Other people’s dreams are never interesting…except when they’re about sex. Each week, our dream analyst Lauri Loewenberg tells one lucky reader what their dirty dream means. Got a dream you want Lauri to analyze? Click here to submit it. This week, a reader asks Lauri: I work at a hospital as a professional vampire. lol The […]

Websites
Blog Snog: Lena Dunham Was a 19-Year-Old Virgin

The Frisky: Why I threw away all of my “sexy” lingerie. YourTango: Constantly winning marriage arguments? You might lose long-term. How About We: Everything I know about dating I learned from soap operas. Nerve: 10 romantic comedies ruined by modern technology. Pop Sugar: Lena Dunham was a 19-year-old virgin.

Pop Culture
New Movie: Afternoon Delight

Afternoon Delight, the directorial debut by Jill Soloway (best known for her work on “Six Feet Under” and “The United States of Tara”), opens next Friday in NY and LA, followed by other cities Sept 6th. It joins a (thankfully) growing number of projects on issues of sexuality from the female perspective with frankness, even […]

How To
Top 10 Sex Tips for First Year College Students (New & Improved!)

For many young men and women, the end of August marks the start of a new chapter of life – one of higher learning, critical thinking, problem solving, horizon broadening, and lots and lots of casual bonking. It’s a whole new world of unchaperoned independence and freedom combined with 18-year-old hormones – which can result […]

Toys
GIGI 2 Contest: What’s Your Favorite Color Pleasure Object?

sponsored post Grey is not a common color for a sex toy — which makes the GIGI 2 such a novelty in the pleasure biz! You can still get the new and improved G-spotter from LELO.com in more typical colors (deep rose, turquoise blue, petal pink), but now you have the option of a subtler […]

How To
What Is the G-Spot?

  This is part of our series on Top Body “Spots” that any self-respecting, shall we say, “anatomy enthusiast” should be familiar with. Even if this is old news to you, it’s always a good idea to brush up: The G-Spot a.k.a: The Grafenberg Spot The G-spot is the area of the urethral sponge (or female prostate) […]

How To
How to Introduce Kink Into Your Relationship (Esp If You’re a Dude)

Lelo’s Etherea Silk Cuffs Our friend, previous Nerve coworker, and fellow writer Grant Stoddard recently hit us up for some insight for his Men’s Health article “Does She Deserve a Spanking?” This is how these things go: article writer asks you (the author of a book on the subject in question) a bunch of questions, you […]

How To
5 Things You Should Know About the Clitoris

photo via flickr Little man in the boat, nubbin, chickpea, rosebud, love button, joy buzzer, cherry pit, beetle’s bonnet—the clitoris has more nicknames than P.Diddy, but it still remains an elusive little sucker. We bet most people could list more pet names for the clitoris than facts about how it works. Here are five key […]

Dear Em & Lo
Your Call: Why Does My BF Look at Naked Pics of Celebs?

We get a lot of advice questions coming in at EMandLO.com, but sadly, we just can’t answer them all. Which is why, once a week, we turn to you to decide how best to advise a reader. Make your call on the letter below by leaving your advice in the comments section.  Submit Your Own Question to EMandLO.comTry Our New […]