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The Guardian Picks the 10 Best Sex Guides Ever (Guess What’s #10?)

In honor of the 40th anniversary of the Joy of Sex (1972), the Guardian’s Observer just chose the top 10 best sex guides ever. A friend of ours on Facebook gave us a heads up about the list, saying they saved the best for last. Yes, we’re honored to say our illustrated guide SEX: How to […]

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Blog Snog: Halloween Costume Ideas for Couples

photo via TresSugar Tres Sugar: Creative and cute Halloween costume ideas for couples. The Frisky: The 7 stupidest things women have done for breast implants. YourTango: “Please, give my kid Plan B behind my back!” How About We: 9 weird sexual phobias. Huffpo Women: 15 reasons fall sex is the best.

Movies
Top 10 Pop-Culture Gender-Benders

We’re not going to focus on the negative portrayals of transsexuality, like in PSYCHO and SILENCE OF THE LAMBS and last year’s thankfully cancelled WORK IT television sitcom. And we’re not focusing on the history of transitioning stories that takes us all the way back to the 1930s when an intersexed, Bohemia-born Zdenka Koubkova went from female running/jumping champion to male […]

Vids
Bar Refaeli Wants to Kickstart Her Sex Tape

Sure, you could send ten bucks to your neighbor who wants to make a business out of her macrame bondage gear… or you could just fund “aspiring model and actress” Bar Refaeli’s sex tape. Remember the nineties, when a sex tape was a good way to launch a career? These days it’s all about making […]

Dream Interpretation
Dream Interpretation: I Cheated with a Well-Endowed Bad Ass

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: Last night I dreamt that when I […]

Confessions
Comment of the Week: Why First-Date Sex Isn’t a Relationship Killer

Reader Lisa said the following in response to the (oldie-but-goodie) post “Wise Guys: Is Sex on a First Date a Relationship Killer?” When you go out with a guy, he’s already decided what he wants out of that relationship, whether it be a LTR or a one night stand. You just have to learn how […]

How To
How to Buy a Sex Toy (With No Buyer’s Remorse)

The Nea by Lelo fits all our criteria below There are countless toys out there to choose from — unfortunately, not all of them will get you to your happy place effectively, or even safely. The sex toy industry is littered with manufacturers and distributors who are more interested in quantity than quality. Fortunately that’s […]

Toys
And the LELO for the Best Self-Love Haiku Goes To…

Thank you for all your inspired entries in our Self Love Haiku Contest. Rabbit imagery seemed to be a big theme, which makes sense considering the prize up for grabs is a Rabbit-style vibe (one that’s waterproof, body-safe, powerful and quiet). And there were a lot of hilarious haikus that tickled our funny bones (which […]

Wise Guys
Wise Guys: Are Men Romantic Or Do They Just Fake It?

photo via Flickr Advice from three of EMandLO.com’s guy friends. This week they answer the following: “Are most men romantics, or is romance something guys simply do to keep their partner happy?” To ask the guys your own question, click here. Single Straight Guy (Scott Phrenetik): I think the majority of men are not inherently romantic. But, is it […]

Pop Culture
Top 10 Secretly Feminist Movies

No filmmaker in their right mind would advertise the fact that their film has feminist ambitions — we’re pretty sure that’s box office suicide (sad, but true). Despite that, some films have pretty obvious feminist heroes — think Thelma and Louise, G.I. Jane., Jodie Foster’s character in THE ACC– USED, and Erin Brockovich. And then there are […]

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Blog Snog: 16 Things People Masturbated to Before Discovering Porn

Flowers in the Attic The Frisky: 16 things you might have masturbated to before you knew porn existed. Tres Sugar: Steamy, edgy, and sentimental German romances to stream on Netflix. YourTango: 4 steps to a “Pitch Perfect” relationship. How About We: 12 surprisingly intelligent love lessons from “Jersey Shore.” Huffpo Women: The real reason men love breasts.

Dream Interpretation
Dream Interpretation: I Am Drowning in Man Juice!

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: There is no eloquent way to put […]

Polls
What’s Your Favorite Sex Toy?

Mona 2 by Lelo We’re conducting an unscientific survey on what people think are the best sex toys out there. As you know, we’re fond of all things LELO. What’s your all-time favorite one? Or at least your favorite one this season — after all, new and/or improved ones are popping up all the time. Please […]

Comment of the Week
Comment of the Week: How to Get the Sex You Want

photo via Flickr For the second week in a row, our favorite comment has been in response to the post, “Your Call: My Husband Won’t Even Try to Give Me an Orgasm” —  this week reader Tess has some similarly spot on advice: …if this pattern [of unsatisfying sex] is all that [your husband] knows, then you can’t expect him […]

Toys
Top 10 Haikus About Self-Love (A Contest!)

***THIS CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED*** We guess we should really title this post “Top 10 Haikus About Self Love That Em and Lo Just Came Up With.” We figured it’s a Friday, so what better time to celebrate the wonders of onanism!  In honor of this joyous occasion, we’d like to give away one INA 2 […]

News
How Much Would You Pay to Talk to a Guy Who’d Really Listen?

photo via RedModelBar.com That question is now serious business in South Korea, where the old-school hostess culture — i.e. rich businessmen visiting male-only establishments, paying the female hostesses for their flirtatious company and more — has given rise to its exact opposite: rich women visiting female-only establishments, paying the male hosts for their flirtatious company […]