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Blog Snog: Scary Movies Perfect for a Halloween Date Night

Tres Sugar: Scary movies with a dash of romance you can stream for a Halloween date night. YourTango: Should vegetarians and carnivores date each other? The Frisky: 6 Couples’ Halloween costume ideas that have nothing to do with “Fifty Shades of Grey” How About We: 10 dating lessons from “Seinfeld” that were completely wrong Huffpo Women: My night […]

Dream Interpretation
Dream Interpretation: My Boyfriend Was a Terrorist!

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 the strangest dream last night, […]

Pop Culture
10 Reasons Why the First Marriage Still Rocks Our World

Three years ago, inspired by an article in the New York Times Magazine, we wrote a post about how we found the First Marriage both inspiring and a little chastening — let’s see you be President or First Lady and still rock hot monogamy like that. The marriage is also a little terrifying — how […]

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Contest: Help Breast Cancer Awareness and Win a Lelo Toy!

This post is sponsored by LELO Want to take part in Breast Cancer Awareness Month and win a high-end Lelo pleasure object? (And yes, we realize that’s like asking if you approve of both world peace and chocolate.) Well, here’s a super-easy way to to do it: Between now and the end of October, if you […]

Dear Em & Lo
Dear Em & Lo: I Used a Vibrator, Now I Can’t Climax with My Partner

photo via flickr Submit Your Own Question to EMandLO.comTry Our New *PRIVATE* Advice Service! Dear Em & Lo, I’m having trouble reaching an orgasm while intimate with my partner. I’m 20 years old, I had a kid 8 months ago, and then became a single parent, so started using a vibrator. I now have a […]

Confessions
Comment of the Week: Love Can’t Conquer Kinky Differences

Reader Xena said the following in response to our post “He’s Kinky, She’s Vanilla — Is the Relationship Doomed?” The LESS likely scenario is that the vanilla partner will have bsdm needs awoken in them with time. But I would not bet on that scenario. The other very important thing to note is that even […]

Wise Guys
Wise Guys: Can Long-Distance Relationships Ever Work?

photo via flickr Advice from Ask the Wise GuysYour Own Question! three of EMandLO.com’s guy friends. This week they answer the following: “Can long-distance relationships ever work? If so, how, and for how long?“ Single Straight Guy (Colin Adamo of Hooking Up & Staying Hooked): Some people like the structured aspect of a relationship: getting […]

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Blog Snog: 12 Impossible Sexual Positions

photo via TheFrisky The Frisky: 12 impossible sexual positions (NSFW-ish). Tres Sugar: 50 must-have props for your Fifty Shades of Grey costume. YourTango: What is a sexual surrogate? How About We: 10 romantic fall date ideas. Huffpo Women: I don’t have kids — let the party begin! RELATED ARTICLES ON EMandLO.com The Coital Alignement Technique (C.A.T.) […]

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50% of All LELO’s “Pink Lily” Sales Go to BreastCancer.org This Oct!

This post is sponsored by LELO Give support, get pleasure! October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and our friends over at Lelo are partnering up with Breastcancer.org for Rediscovering Intimacy, an initiative focused on helping breast cancer sufferers and their partners reconnect, and also to encourage people to understand more about this disease that affects 1 in […]

Celebrities
Olivia Wilde’s Vaginalogue

photo via flickr Olivia Wilde is one of those actresses we are completely familiar with (thanks Us Weekly!) without having a clue about her career. We’re assuming she plays exotic queens in far off lands from long, long ago whose beauty knights kill for? And apparently she was in some TV show? Suffice it to […]

Pop Culture
Make Your Pro-Choice/Sex Ed/Gay Marriage/Equal Pay/Obama Ad Now!

Ad Your Voice 2012 is giving all you creative types out there a chance to create a cool political ad that could help defeat Mitt Romney in November.  Send them your ads – gut-splitting, fist-shaking, tear-jerking video shorts between 30 and 60 seconds long – in support of Obama-Biden. The deadline is October 22nd, but […]

Dear Em & Lo
Dear Em & Lo, Are Rape Fantasies Normal…If I’m a Rape Survivor?

Dear Em & Lo, I’m not sure if I’m going to word this correctly, but here it goes. I’m 20 years old and am engaged to a wonderful man who has blessed me with a son. Before I met him I had a bad life and I had been raped 3 times. Lately during sex […]

Confessions
Comment of the Week: I Finally Made My Vibrator Obsolete!

photo via Flickr We love a success story. Here’s Anne, in response to “10 Steps to Orgasming Without a Vibrator”: I have been going electric since I discovered any sort of sex in my teens. You would be surprised how many household items vibrate. My first orgasm was with vibration and I had never had […]

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This I Believe: Slow Kisses, High Fiber, Soft-Core Porn, Baseball

Bull Durham (1988) We were listening to the “This I Believe” show on our local public radio station a few days ago — “This I Believe” is an international organization that gets people to discuss their core values, and is based on the popular 1950s radio series of the same name, hosted by Edward R. Murrow. They have […]

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Are Halloween Couple Costumes Cute or Cloying?

Plug and Socket costume on Amazon.com When you’re in a couple, do you like to coordinate Halloween costumes with your partner? If so, is it something that new couples can do, or should it be saved only until after you’ve farted in front of each other, met each other’s parents, and perhaps even promised eternal […]

Wise Guys
Wise Guys: Is the Way to a Man’s Heart Really Through His Stomach?

photo by Julie via WikiCommons Advice from three of EMandLO.com’s guy friends. This week they answer the following: “Is the way to a man’s heart through his stomach? And if not, what’s the way?” Married Bisexual Guy (Bryan Sebeck): In a word, yes.  Several peer-reviewed scientific studies have shown that men are most attracted to scents that are both […]