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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
PopSugar: Every Ryan Gosling GIF They Could Find! How About We: Dating Advice as Told by Cats The Frisky: 5 Things To Know About Edith “Edie” Windsor, The 83-Year-Old Lesbian Challenging The Defense Of Marriage Act Nerve: What It’s Like to Be the Only Girl on the “Girls Gone Wild” Crew YourTango: Is Your Shower Soap Increasing Your […]
Our contributor Jewely Hoxie studies Human Sexuality at the University of California Santa Cruz (read her blog here). She has this to stay about the slut stigma… How many times have you heard people say, “If she wasn’t such a slut…” or, “She’s kind of a slut, but…” or, “I can’t believe she’s slept with […]
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 dreamt I was sitting on a bed in a strange room with my […]
Our long-time and wise-as-all-get-out reader Figleaf said the following in response to our post, “How (and Why) to Have Sex with the Lights On”: I learned how erect penises are “supposed” to look from a very rough sketch in a “sex education” book I stumbled across. My penis didn’t look like that. At all! At […]
Get Personal Advice Publicly on EMandLO.comTry Our New *PRIVATE* Advice Service! Dear Em & Lo, I’ve known this girl “Ashley” since high school band eight years ago. We instantly hit it off as friends the day we met because of our mutual liking of illegal substances. I know it’s cliche, but I’ve had a crush […]
Even if Christa Parravani wasn’t a friend of ours, we would be insisting that you check out her brand new memoir Her. It’s the heartbreaking, beautiful, compelling, and ultimately uplifting story of what happens when someone loses their identical twin. After Christa’s sister Cara was brutally raped at age 24 and a few years later […]
photo via Flickr Do you shave your male chest hair / expect your male partner to shave his chest hair?
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) Go on that blind date, the one your friend keeps nudging you to pursue. Strangely enough, […]
The Frisky: Dealbreaker: His penis made me cry. Nerve: Sheryl Sandberg says doing men laundry gets ladies in the sack (but how does that kind of thinking help women?). YourTango: 3 signs you’re in a love-hate relationship. HuffPo Women: 11 things that will change when more women are single. How About We: There are no […]
Sensua Suede Whip by Lelo 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 […]
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 had this dream about one of my girl friends, and […]
This week we received a note that makes all our hard work (for so little money) totally worthwhile: Hi Em and Lo, I just wanted to let you guys know that I recently had the best sex of my life so far, and I believe it was almost entirely because I’ve been reading your advice […]
photo via flickr Last week a reader named Candi posted the following comment about her sexual insecurities in response to our article “10 Reasons Your ‘Ugly Vagina’ Is Normal and Gorgeous”: I’m so glad to find this site, but I’m still a bit insecure when it comes to my vulva. Reading through all these comments […]
