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Toys
Vintage Vibrator Museum

Believe it or not, sex toys weren’t invented by Sex and the City. In fact, the first evidence of sex toys dates back 30,000 years, and there are records and depictions of sex toy use in ancient Greece and Rome. There’s nothing quite that antique in Babeland‘s Vintage Vibrator Museum, but you’ll find plenty of […]

Wise Guys
Our New Wise Guys Advise Women on How to Ask Men Out (Part 1 of 2)

photo via Flickr A few new men have joined the ranks of our Wise Guys! They’ve all answered the following question: “What’s the best way for a woman to ask a guy out?” Meet half of them below, then tune in next Tuesday to meet the rest! Married Bisexual Guy (Bryan Sebeck): It’s not as […]

Dream Interpretation
Dream Interpretation: I Had Sex with a Celebrity and Was Left with His Penis

John Wayne Bobbitt 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 recently had a dream that I […]

Pop Culture
The Speedo Makes a Comeback

If you’ve ever rolled your eyes at that iconic image of the bikini-clad woman sudsing up a muscle car or rollerskating along the boardwalk, then have we got two videos for you. First, the high budget one: LMFAO’s “I’m Sexy and I Know It.” As our writer friend Grant Stoddard recently put it in a Facebook post, […]

Websites
Blog Snog: The Most Famous Love Triangles of All Time

CollegeCandy: The most famous love triangles of all time. HuffPo Women: Helen Gurley Brown and the ostentatious orgasm. YourTango: Why I only date bisexual men. EdenFantasys’ Sexis: How to roleplay with a straight face. TheFrisky: What’s your number? Here’s why I don’t care. TresSugar: Sexy Canadians you’ve never heard of.

Pop Culture
Naked News: Dr. Pepper, Justin Beiber and Other American Horror Stories

photo via DailyBillboard A purely pop culture edition: Any show featuring a full gimp suit has promise — a review of “American Horror Story” that took the words right out of our mouth. 4 lessons men can learn from Justin Beiber on being better boyfriends. Dr. Pepper 10 is “not for women.” And it’s not for […]

News
Live Human Birth: You Never Saw This at the County Fair

A few weeks back we found ourselves at a county fair witnessing the live birth of a calf (as one does). It was equal parts fascinating, horrifying and beautiful and reminded us of exactly how animalistic the human birth experience can be (and vice versa). Though where humans get forceps or perhaps a c-section when […]

Personal Essays
Confession: The Top 10 Reasons I Love Being Naked

photo via Flickr Our intern Alyssa Perez has a confession to make: 1.  No Constraints: Do a lunge!   Kick your legs!  Spin in a circle while swinging your arms!  Feel that?  Yeah, just air.  No clothes rustling, no bra pinching, no underwear bunching, just air. 2.  Transparency: I can see absolutely everything on my body, and you know what?  That roll that I […]

Confessions
Comment of the Week: Shame On You, Em & Lo!

photo via flickr We recently published an article on this site called “10 Tips to Stop Hating Your Body Enough to Have Sex.” All of the tips were well-intentioned and most of the them were of the warm-fuzzy variety. But one of them, #9, stated: “Fuck like a dude. Make like a man and hook […]

What's Up Doc?
Dear Dr. Joe: Do Some Men Fart When They Ejaculate?

photo via flickr Every few weeks, Dr. Joe DeOrio, a urologist in Chicago, tackles questions about male sexuality here on EMandLO.com. To ask Dr. Joe your own question, click here. Dear Dr. Joe, My yoga teacher recently told me that 2% of all men fart when they ejaculate. She’d just learned about this in a […]

Pop Culture
The Virginity Project – a Blog, a Book, a Play

We first heard from Kate Monro a few years ago from across the pond when her Virginity Project was just a fledgeling little baby blog. Today, that blog, which collects and publishes first time tales of all sorts from all over the world, is shortlisted for the final of the UK Cosmoplitan Blog Awards 2011; she’s got a book […]

Websites
Feminist Ryan Gosling

We never really understood the whole Ryan Gosling thing — he seemed kind of like a pompous, pretentious ac-tor with zero sense of humor. That is, until we saw him on Ellen in onesie pajamas on a stationary bike earlier this year. Boy, were we schooled then. Now we’re on board — well, we’re not […]

Dream Interpretation
Dream Interpretation: My Current Boyfriend Is My Ex in My Dreams

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 a dream that my boyfriend […]

Research
Benevolent Sexism? Not So Much

In case you’ve been hiding under a rock lately — or watching the soon-to-canceled TV show Playboy Club — so-called benevolent sexism is doing or saying nice things for sexist reasons. Killing them with kindness, as it were. For example, holding open a door for a woman (when you don’t do it for men), or […]

Websites
Blog Snog: Would You Date a Sperm Donor?

photo by gniliep CollegeCandy: Would you date a sperm donor? HuffPo Women: Are women more sexually adventurous than men? YourTango: Happy Chocolate Week! Why some aphrodisiacs work… EdenFantasys’ Sexis: Has Lady Gaga made drag kings mainstream? TheFrisky: Study finds sexist beliefs are passed down from Mom. TresSugar: Listen to their ultimate sexy-time playlist.

Pop Culture
Artist Rion Sabean’s “Men-Ups”

We once did a photo shoot for The Sun, that super trashy but widely popular newspaper in the UK (you know, the one with the “Page 3 girl”). We were promoting the British edition of our book, The Big Bang. We were young and naive, the photographer was old and pushy, and as he gradually encouraged us […]