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. Dear Em & Lo, How can I have […]
photo by emdot Did you know that only about a third of employers in the U.S. observe Martin Luther King Day as a holiday? So we’re doing our bit by honoring this federal holiday. (Okay, so that’s not exactly a “bit.” Get inspired to do something actually meaningful here.) We’ll be back with our regularly […]
photo by SimplySchmoopie 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) Your attention span for relationships currently rivals that of the average Sesame Street viewer. Consequently, don’t dabble […]
A new book called Hard to Get says young independent successful women need more guidance about sex than their elders did, thanks to so many conflicting messages. One Jezebel article kinda proves that point by questioning why so many women willingly engage in orgasm-free casual sex. Jumping on the “sex is ruined” bandwagon is this […]
photo via Flickr YourTango: How do you get over a breakup? Take this survey and be entered to win 50 bucks! The Frisky: Gina the chimp only wants to watch porn (see, Creationists, we must share a common ancestor!). TresSugar: In honor of Betty White’s 91st birthday this week, here are some of her best […]
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: Okay, so I’m a female and recently I had a dream that I had […]
Flowers in the Attic Our Bodies, Ourselves. Judy Blume. Flowers in the Attic. If you grew up in the ’80s, chances are these books had a pretty big impact on your sexual development. In other words, as far as V.C. Andrews’ book goes, you probably have a bit of a thing for incest plot-lines. Forbidden […]
Lelo has come out with a new Pleasure Set just in time for Valentine’s Day. First there was the Indulge Me set, for the couple that likes to tease and tantalize together. Then there was the Dare Me set, for making your Fifty Shades fantasies a reality. Now there’s the Adore Me set, for those […]
Reader Michael H. said the following in response to our post, “Your Call: How Can a Woman Enjoy Lots of Sex Without Shame?” This is coming from this male’s perspective, take it as you may… You are absolutely correct that society has a double standard. It should be an obsolete puritanical belief system, however, it […]
Dear Em & Lo, Last night my boyfriend went out with a bunch of his friends, including his ex. Their friend group is known to engage in apparently meaningless sexual activities with one another other on nights out. At around 2 in the morning he came to my apartment completely wasted, with a rather large […]
All top ten lists are, by their nature, subjective, but this one is especially so — because one person’s “WTF” sex scene is another person’s monkey spanking material. (Exhibit A: we’d qualify a lot of porn as WTF.) A few qualifications: David Lynch probably deserves a place in this list (okay, David Lynch definitely deserves […]
photo by SimplySchmoopie 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) Call us crazy, but we see a high correlation between givers in the community and givers in […]
In honor of the Golden Globes last night, we — the Tina Fey and Amy Poehler of the sex writing world — decided to give out our own awards for the evening: Most Sensual Congratulatory Kiss Sally Field to Daniel Day Lewis (Best Actor for Lincoln). Her hands cradling his face and their slow gentle […]
photo via Flickr And we don’t mean intentionally, when you’re trying to think about baseball stats to prolong your performance. We mean when your mind just wanders — maybe you’re tired or distracted or bored or drunk (or sleeping with someone who’s inept in bed and too drunk to care whether or not you fake). Have you […]
YourTango: Why I love my 50-year-old body (more than I did my 25-year-old body). The Frisky: 9 sex lessons from Downton Abbey. TresSugar: Flirty films about dating to stream instantly on Netflix. Nerve: The lost boys of Girls. How About We: Why it’s not your fault you were cheated on. HuffPo Women: An open letter to the […]
Queerskins Our friend Illya Szilak is a full-time physician specializing in HIV treatment, a mother of two, a world traveller, and, oh yeah, in her spare-time she writes groundbreaking novels. (We both managed to shower today and consider that a huge accomplishment.) Her latest project, QUEERSKINS, is an online multimedia novel that tells the story of […]
