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Blog Snog: 5 Dating Sharks to Avoid

photo via Flickr CollegeCandy: 12 lies men tell themselves. YourTango: Do you give too much or too little to your relationship? HuffPo Women: What will the real cost of The Pill be? TresSugar: 4 things you may not know about Plan B. EdenFantasys’ Sexis: Everything you ever wanted to know about the clitoris. TheFrisky: 5 […]

Pop Culture
Film: The Myth of the American Sleepover

We’re suckers for any kind of teenage, coming-of-age, love story. So we were delighted to discover this new movie, “The Myth of the American Sleepover.” An official selection of Cannes Critics Week and winner of the Special Jury Prize at SXSW, the film follows four young people on the last night of summer — their […]

Dear Em & Lo
Your Call: Should He Hit on a Coworker?

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 like […]

Sexual Health
It’s Official: Your Insurance Provider Now Has to Cover Your Contraceptives

We reported last week that a leading U.S. medical advisory panel recommended that all insurers be required to cover contraceptives for women free of charge. Well, guess what? The Obama administration went for it! And we don’t mean the kind of “free” where you have to pay an annoying co-pay or other deductible. We mean 100% […]

Personal Essays
Confession: Top 10 Ways I Disguise Love Noises

photo via Flickr A college-student contributor friend of ours, who wishes to remain anonymous, confesses her favorite ways to keep things under wraps, aurally speaking: One of my favorite quotes of all time is an uncharacteristically understated gem of advice from Kurt Vonnegut: “I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim […]

What's Up Doc?
Dear Dr. Kate: All My Special Places Are Too Tender!

photo by mistress_f 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, Recently, all my special places have become so tender. My boyfriend can’t touch my nipples […]

Confessions
Comment of the Week: More on the Orgasm Gap

image from nDevilTV Clandestine, commenting on a study that showed women orgasm about 80% as often as men do in close relationships but only 32% as often in first hookups: I’d suggest that a broader explanation [for the orgasm gap] may be that our definition of sex is very intercourse-focused, and we conventionally define sex […]

Dear Em & Lo
Dear Em & Lo: I Told BF Sex Was Just Alright

photo by db*photography Dear Em & Lo, When my boyfriend and I first got together and started having sex he asked me how I thought it was. I told him it was alright. Well, he took it as a negative thing and now he doesn’t want to have sex with me because he thinks I […]

Pop Culture
A Digital, Serialized, Erotic Novella for August

On July 31st we got a press release about “29 Days of August,” a “digital novella of appetites” meant to be read throughout the month of August on “the social networks you already use.” Here’s the scoop: Designed as an accompaniment to the languid, over-heated days of summer, “29 Days of August” follows the adventures […]

Wise Guys
Wise Guys: Is There Such a Thing as Harmless Flirtation?

photo via Flickr Advice from three of our guy friends. This week a woman asks, “Is there such a thing as harmless flirtation? When does it cross the line? Is the line different for men and women?” Straight Married Guy (Ben): Sure – there are plenty of harmless flirtations. Most flirtations, I think, are harmless. […]

Dream Interpretation
Dream Interpretation: A Friend Kisses Me in My Sleep

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. This week, a reader asks Lauri: So I had a dream about sleeping: somehow a longtime classmate/friend kissed me on the lips and we both just […]

Websites
PostSecret Tells Aliens Everything They Need to Know About (Loving) the Human Race

Some — okay, most — photo blogs are funny for about as long as it takes you to read their gimmicky title and first post. And others continue to be funny, moving, inspiring, entertaining, or heartbreaking years later. Like PostSecret, which is all of these and more. The website is an ongoing community art project […]

Websites
Blog Snog: Five Rules for Threeways

photo via CollegeCandy CollegeCandy: Five rules for sex with three people. YourTango: Is female-penned sex writing still taboo? HuffPost Women: Breakup emails hall of shame. TresSugar: Gay New Yorkers saying “I Do”! EdenFantasys’ Sexis: An online community where sex workers (and even their bad clients) come together to chat. TheFrisky: The 5 different types of […]

News
Wedding Photos from NY’s 1st Day of Legal Gay Marriage

Our photographer friend David Jacobs (he took our deceptively flattering bio pic) was hired by Human Rights Campaign, the gay rights organization, to document New York’s first day of legal gay marriage this past Monday at Manhattan’s City Hall. HRC will soon have more on their site, but for now here’s a round-up of the […]

Dear Em & Lo
Your Call: I Used to Be Paid for Sex

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 used […]

How To
8 Rules of the Booty Call

We’ve all been there: Out on the town, feeling good after a cocktail or five, you don’t want to go home but you can’t stay where you are, and no one has made you any offers you can’t refuse yet. So you fish out your phone to daringly (read: desperately) see if one of your […]