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Dear Em & Lo
How Often Do Booty Calls Become Girlfriends?

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 by leaving your advice in the comments section below. Dear Em & Lo, I’ve been […]

News
Pickup Line of the Month: You’re One in Seven Billion!

On October 31 of this year — there or thereabouts — the world population will hit 7 billion. 7 billion. If you can’t quite get your head around what a billion looks like, then check out the real-time population counter on the Population Action International website — those spinning numbers kind of bring it home […]

Polls
Question of the Week: How Do You Define Sex?

photo via flickr Occasionally on this site, we ask you guys an impertinent question and you can share your answer in the comments section below. Feel free to share your age, gender, relationship status, sexuality, etc., if you feel that it’s relevant to the answer. This week’s burning (in a good way) question: How do […]

What's Up Doc?
Dear Dr. Vanessa, Did My Girlfriend Give Me Herpes?

photo via Flickr Every few weeks, Dr. Vanessa Cullins, a board-certified obstetrician/gynecologist and vice president for medical affairs at Planned Parenthood® Federation of America, will be answering your questions on EMandLO.com. To ask her your own question, click here. Dear Dr. Vanessa, I’ve been with my current partner for six months, and I just got […]

How To
5 Ways to Reconceptualize SEX

  We’ve said it before, we’ll say it again: Sex is not intercourse. So stop using the two words interchangeably! When we as a society do this over and over again, it gets into the collective unconscious and starts limiting how we imagine the possibilities of pleasure, especially for women. A majority of women (that’s […]

Confessions
Comment of the Week: EMandLO.com Really Works! It’s Tingly!

Denorex commercial Jackie, commenting on the post “10 Steps to Orgasming Without a Vibrator” I’ve had this problem for years. I always believed that I was in that group of women that just wasn’t stimulated enough during any kind of intercourse that didn’t include a vibrator to achieve an orgasm. I’ve actually withheld from any […]

Toys
3 New “SenseMotion” Vibes from LELO

It’s always fun when something truly innovative comes along in the sex toy industry. Remember the first vibrating egg women could use internally? Or the first vibrating love ring worn by men during intercourse? Or the more recent We-Vibe worn by women during intercourse? Those all had a pretty high wow-factor when they first appeared […]

News
Naked News: In Space, Safe Sex May Be the Only Kind of Sex

Sex in space? Maybe. But scientists still aren’t sure that reproduction works in the microgravity of space. Study finds that moderate exercise makes middle-aged women feel better about themselves, while intense work-outs make them feel like shit. New York considers Medicaid for transgender surgeries. HPV throat cancers transmitted during oral sex have increased significantly in recent years, […]

Dream Interpretation
Dream Interpretation: My Breakup Is Giving Me Nightmares

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 male reader asks Lauri: I’ve recently been having problems with […]

Websites
Blog Snog: Halloween-Themed Wedding Ideas

Photos by Lytle foto via Rock n Roll Bride CollegeCandy: He said/She said on oral sex etiquette. HuffPo Women: The fine line between marriage and divorce. YourTango: Men view kissing as a means to an end. EdenFantasys’ Sexis: “Pride and Prejudice,” the XXX version. TheFrisky: How to teach boys to be feminists. TresSugar: Halloween-themed wedding ideas.

Pop Culture
A GOP Glossary

photo via Flickr Our friend Geoff Rice, a nimble Facebook poster and hilarious bleeding-heart liberal, recently began a GOP/Tea Party glossary in public “Note” form, defining such terms as “freedom”, “immigrant” and “socialism”, and calling for additional entries from readers. Here was our contribution: Pro-Life A belief in and dedication to the sanctity of life, […]

Your Call
Your Call: How Can She Get Over Her Boyfriend’s Bisexuality?

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 by leaving your advice in the comments section below. My boyfriend just told me he […]

Pop Culture
When Parents Text

photo via flickr Some people worry that technology is hindering human communication, creating more distance in relationships, but we think When Parents Text is evidence to the contrary,” write co-authors Lauren Kaelin and Sophia Fraioli about their new book. And we think they’re right — amongst the ALL CAPS and multiple exclamation points and weird […]

Personal Essays
5 Ways to Make Masturbation Even Better

EMandLO.com contributor Jewely Hoxie, who is studying Human Sexuality at the University of California Santa Cruz – you can read her blog here – has a confession to make: I think we can all agree now that plenty of women enjoy masturbation at least as much as men. But the way women enjoy masturbation can […]

What's Up Doc?
Dear Dr. Kate: Is a Post-Toothpaste Tingly Oral Session Safe?

photo by sahxic Dr. Kate is an OB/GYN at one of the largest teaching hospitals in New York City and she answers your medical questions here every two weeks. To ask her your own question, click here. Dear Dr. Kate, Lately my manpanion has been going down on me at night following teethbrushing. Needless to […]

Confessions
Sometimes Good Comments Come in Small Packages

photo via Flickr The following “Comment of the Week” was made in response to another recent “Comment of the Week” about female arousal: it’s simple, elegant and to the point: If she’s not into it, neither am I.