Lelo’s Tantra Feather Teaser Sensation play might as well be called sensational play. After all, sex shouldn’t always be rub, climax, rinse, repeat. Add a little subtlety to your sexuality and you get sensuality, the driving force behind “sensation play.” It’s notoriously been the domain of sensitive ponytailed men and earnest granola chicks who own […]
photo via Wiki Commons 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 […]
photo by Simply Schmoopie aries (Mar. 21st-Apr. 20th) There’s all kinds a’ passion, as Bubba might say. Love-passion, sex-passion, football-passion, jealous-passion. Mistaking one for the other can lead to trouble. taurus (Apr. 21st-May 20th) So maybe Paula Abdul believed that opposites attract, but since when do you take dating advice from a pill-popping ex Idol […]
photo via flickr April is National Poetry Month, so we thought we’d celebrate by sharing with you one of our favorite erotic poems. This poem by Christina Rossetti is a little more, er subtle than Fifty Shades of Grey — it’s not exactly wank material. But we were in the mood for a classic. And […]
photo via flickr The Frisky: Why the male anti-masturbation movement is actually a good thing. Nerve: Why do we care more about other people’s sex lives than our own? YourTango: 10 tell-tale signs that he’s cheating on you. PopSugar: What to do when you don’t like him back. How About We: Why I’m saving myself […]
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, another reader continues the running Sapphic theme and asks Lauri: I have recently been diagnosed with depression and […]
Confession: 8 Rules for the Third Wheel in a Threeway And you thought the couple had it hard! Top 10 Tangled Love Triangles in Film The tangled love triangle is such a cinematic trope that we could probably put together a list for every year. Here, we just pick the best ever. Poll: Have […]
10. No way, you had spinach for lunch too?! 9. I think I swallowed your filling. 8. Thanks, I’d been meaning to floss. 7. Care for a mint?
We feel honored, lucky and humble that some very smart readers and writers choose EMandLO.com as their place to intelligently discuss and debate issues of sexuality and culture. Exhibit A: The comments section of last week’s Comment of the Week, which was a response to the post “Your Call – How Long Can a Virgin Make […]
photo via Durex We’re seeking a US-based couple in their twenties or thirties, either married or in a committed relationship, who are willing to tell us about their relationship — anonymously, if you prefer! In exchange you will receive our undying gratitude — oh, and an awesome “Play Together, Stay Together” toolkit from Durex, worth […]
photo by kreetube Advice from three of EM & LO‘s guy friends. This week a straight woman asks, “Does sleeping with a guy on a first date really ruin my chances for a future relationship with him? What if it’s obvious we really like each other, the chemistry’s great, we have a lot in common, […]
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 […]
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.) This week, we present your horos in short poem form: aries (Mar. 21st-Apr. 20th) Let’s get physical Sang Olivia Newton. […]
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 […]
Nerve: 9 hand-drawn maps of NY that will break your heart The Frisky: 10 things Joan Holloway would say about dating. How About We: Friends are the new marriage. PopSugar: Beautiful Bastard is the new Fifty Shades. YourTango: 10 movies to get you in the mood. HuffPo Women: How to accept your body, in GIFs. 150 Shades of Play: Moms are kinky […]
We’re now writing for the new site, ArchetypeMe. You can check out our articles every week in the Rebel Archetype section. In order to explain what ArchetypeMe is exactly, let’s start with some definitions from the site: Ar • che • type [ahr-ki-type] noun: A universal pattern of behavior that motivates everything we do An Archetype […]