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Wise Guys
Wise Guys: What Makes Someone Approachable?

photo via Flickr Advice from three of EMandLO.com’s guy friends. This week they answer the following: “If we’re talking about guys making a move on a stranger, what makes someone approachable?” To ask the guys your own question, click here. Married Bisexual Guy (Bryan Sebeck): As somebody who’s spent a decent amount of time giving advice to guys who want […]

Pop Culture
A Virtual Halloween Costume Contest!

This post is sponsored by LELO After you’ve entered our Breast Cancer Awareness Month Contest, enter another easy-peasy one from LELO: Just tweet them an image of you in your Halloween costume with the hashtag #HallowINA and you could be one of 2 people who will win our amazing INA 2 rabbit style massager! Whatever internet meme, political […]

Do It Tonight
Do It Tonight: Banish Your Phone

photo via flickr In an interview on Fresh Air last week, Sherry Turkle, author of the new book Alone Together: Why We Expect More From Technology and Less from Each Other, discussed people’s emotional dependence on digital devices. Her theory is that people are not making the important emotional connections with people that they need, […]

Toys
LELO’s Luna Beads Noir – Very Cool, Very Sexy, Very “Fifty”

This post is sponsored by LELO* Since the launch of the Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy by E.L. James last April, the sale of LUNA Beads — LELO’s modern version of the Ben Wa balls that Christian Grey uses on Anastasia Steele — has increased over 400%! LUNA Beads are now regularly appearing as the number […]

Websites
Blog Snog: The 15 Best Divorce Albums of All Time

Nerve: The 15 best divorce albums of all time. Tres Sugar: Strippers in pop culture. YourTango: 5 food that will actually improve your sex life. The Frisky: How not to get dumped. How About We: 13 dating rules we learned from playing Tetris. Huffpo Women: Artist secretly documents dates with cheating husbands.

Dream Interpretation
My Fiance Bit Me Like a Vampire in His Sleep

image by King Chimp, from “Nosferatu” 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. This week, a reader asks Lauri: I am big into pain while having sex, and I am also into vampires. My fiance and I […]

Special Issues
The Halloween Issue

How to Have Sex with a Vampire A top 10 for all you Twilight fans. Are Halloween Couples’ Costumes Cute or Cloying? What do you think? Let us know! Halloween Haiku Contest Winners please, babe? just the tip? / he thrusts, and…did it break off? / no more zombie sex Wise Guys: How Can I Get Him to […]

Toys
Last Day to Enter Our “Breast Cancer Awareness Month” Contest!

This post is sponsored by LELO People, this is an easy one: help support Breast Cancer Awareness Month and be entered to win a luxury toy from Lelo worth at least $140! You’ve got a week left to enter, and right now the odds of winning are really, rilly good (better than if you were […]

Confessions
Comment of the Week: Love a Woman As Is

Egon Schiele, Reclining Female Nude with Violet Stockings, 1910 Pierre, in response to the post “10 Reasons Your ‘Ugly Vagina’ Is Normal and Gorgeous”: Vulvas, just like breasts, just look their best when they are NATURAL. I really hate the tendency nowadays for the shaved look and the trimmed lips, there’s nothing left! I agree with […]

Pop Culture
Bawdy Storytelling in NYC This Thursday & Fri (Oct 25 & 26)

For the past six years, Bawdy Storytelling has been entertaining, educating, and “erectifying” (that’s their very own ™’ed phrase, if you can believe it) audiences up and down the west coast. Known as “The Moth for Pervs,” Bawdy features “real people and sexual rockstars” sharing their honest sexual exploits in 10 minutes or less — […]

News
Top 6 Reasons Your Heart & Genitals Want You to Vote for Obama

We know we may be preaching to the choir here, but just in case you need some more encouragement to register to vote (state-by-state deadlines start dropping in October!), to volunteer your time to the Obama campaign, and to actually vote on November 6th, 2012, here you go: 1. Romney represents the Republican Party, and the […]

Books
You Are Not Alone: Healing Painful Sex

The following is an excerpt from the introduction of the book “Healing Painful Sex: A Woman’s Guide to Confronting, Diagnosing, and Treating Sexual Pain” by Deborah Coady, MD, and Nancy Fish, MSW. If you have ever felt pain during or because of sex, you are not alone. It’s estimated that 16 to 20 percent of […]

Wise Guys
Wise Guys: Best Halloween Costume You’ve Ever Seen a Woman Wear?

Advice from three of EMandLO.com’s guy friends. This week they answer the following: “What’s the best Halloween costume you’ve ever seen a woman wear?” Straight Single Guy (Chris): I once saw a nerdy Lisa Loeb-looking girl dressed in a full R2-D2 costume. It was elaborately constructed, included a drink holder, a bench to sit down, electronic beeping noises, […]

Dear Em & Lo
Your Call: How Can I Find Women Who Are Hot AND Smart?

photo via IMDB 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 […]

Horoscopes
Your Weekly Horoscopes: 10-22-2012 (The Halloween Edition)

photo via Flickr 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) How can anyone resist you this week? Especially in that provocative Halloween costume you chose to don […]

Pop Culture
Top 10 Sexual Extremes in Film

Some things to keep in mind about our list: To make the cut, the films actually had to have some redeeming qualities (so, sorry BOXING HELENA and HUMAN CENTIPEDE!). We tried to pick films that represented ten different extremes — after all, variety is the spice of (sex) life! And while some of the “extremes” in this list are […]