A little spanking session in the bedroom is a quick, easy, and affordable way to spice things up (look ma, nothing but hands!). But as with anything involving painful pleasure, there are always important safety issues — both physical and emotional — that you should familiarize yourself with first, before you go swatting away like […]
photo via Flickr Dear Em & Lo, I recently broke up with my boyfriend of two and a half solid years and then we were on and off for another year or so. I moved on to a kid I had been dating during the ‘off’ time with my previous boyfriend. I was fine and […]
photo via Flickr It’s not often that a comment makes us laugh out loud, but this one did. There’s just something about a hater that can brighten the day. The best thing about it: we’d understand if this were in response to one of our more political, opinionated posts on, say, gender inequities or abortion […]
Lelo’s Etherea Silk Cuffs (a black version is part of their Dare Me Pleasure Set) The following is from our very own naughty, award-winning 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 […]
photo via Flickr Angelina Jolie wrote an op ed in the New York Times today about her decision to have a preventive double mastectomy in order to greatly reduce her risk of breast cancer, which she had an almost 90% chance of getting due to a “faulty” gene (BRCA1) which greatly predisposes carriers to the disease. Her acting […]
photo via flickr 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 […]
photo by Simply Schmoopie aries (Mar. 21st-Apr. 20th) You’re gonna be smooth like butter this week. Better yet, you’re gonna be smooth like Fleischmann’s Light margarine spread. Have you ever felt that stuff? It’s so silky, so creamy, we swear you’ll want to get some vinyl sheets from the incontinence aisle at your drug store, […]
Dirty talk can terrify even the most seasoned sexual adventurer—people are afraid of sounding stupid or afraid of like a pornstar… or perhaps they’re afraid of not sounding like a pornstar. But when you break it down, dirty talk is actually much simpler and more approachable than you might think. Here are five easy ways […]
One of our new favorite songs is a cover one of our new favorite songs by one-man-show (and total cutie) George Barnett — The Frisky‘s post this week about the realities of dating musicians helps keep our little fantasies in check: The Frisky: 12 things to know about dating a musician. Nerve: Why more […]
photo via Flickr Each week, Lauri tells one lucky reader what their dirty dream means here on EMandLO.com. Here’s this week’s: My girlfriend told me today she had a dream where the tip of my penis fell off and I put it back on like it was no big deal. She said this happened in the […]
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 pros and cons of the 69 position… I will, with ease and without shame, say that 69 is a profoundly silly position. Sure, it sounds great upon first listen. We […]
Lelo’s Etherea Silk Cuffs This week is your last chance to get something for Mother’s Day. Sure, you could do flowers…again. Or you could get her something she’ll really enjoy: our award-winnging book, 150 SHADES OF PLAY: A Beginner’s Guide to Kink! ORDER FROM AMAZON WITH TWO-DAY DELIVERY (OR PRIME) BY THUR AFTERNOON — OR ONE-DAY DELIVERY BY […]
Reader Hannah offered up the following very wise (and patient!) advice in response to our post “Your Call: How Do I Get Over All the Sex She’s Had Before Me?” Sigh… A man wants a virgin who will be his whore. I am going to try to avoid criticizing though, since I think this is […]
LELO’s Intima Silk Blindfold 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 […]
Woohoo!!!! Our most recent book, “150 SHADES OF PLAY: A Beginner’s Guide to Kink” has won a 2013 IPPY Award! The Independent Publishers Book Awards is the world’s largest book awards contest and the longest-running unaffiliated independent publishing awards contest (since 1996). It’s designed to bring increased recognition to the deserving but often unsung titles […]
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 […]
