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Naked News: San Francisco Puts Circumcision Ban on the Ballot

photo via Flickr Circumcision ban to appear on November ballot in San Francisco. New Utah law bans “lewd acts” like fondling your own breasts. Further East, things are a little more sane: A sex ed contraception requirement passes the Illinois Senate. Gawker unveils American Apparel founder’s penis. Read the rest of this post on SUNfiltered

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Blog Snog: The 10 Most Romantic Places You’ve Never Heard Of

photo via Flickr CollegeCandy: 10 first date faux pas YourTango: The 10 most romantic getaways you’ve never heard of MyDaily: Taking a class with a real-live “Hitch” TresSugar: The results of a big casual sex survey EdenFantasys’ Sexis: Being okay with being orgasm-challenged TheFrisky: What he’s thinking during sex — an internal monologue.

Pop Culture
It’s Not Gay When It’s In a Threeway

Why is a FFM threeway a rite of passage, while a MMF threeway is weird or kinky or wrong or just plain gay? In case you missed it last weekend, take it from Timberlake, Andy Samberg and Gaga: “It’s okay when it’s in a threeway / It’s not gay when it’s in a threeway / […]

Personal Essays
I Attended My Very First Orgy

Our contributor Alice Hua, a freshman at the University of Pennsylvania, has a confession to make: I spontaneously took a bus from Philadelphia to NYC one Friday for a single reason: My friend Lexi was attending an orgy and I wanted to check it out. It was just a college themed party, so at first […]

Sexual Health
Your Brain on Porn

photo via Flickr There has always been great debate between sex-positive free-speech porn advocates and anti-porn chicken-little moralists. We’ve always fallen somewhere in the middle: you can’t really legislate desire and fantasy, but at the same time all this porn, like too much fast food, can’t be good for you. An interesting site we’ve found […]

Confessions
Comment of the Week: That Apocalypse Guy Says Pray Lovingly for Gays

Well, we’re still screwed: it turns out this past Saturday was just an invisible Judgment Day, with the destruction of the world now scheduled for October 21st, 2011, according to zealot Harold Camping. We recently heard from Johnny, a non-Christian who’s been a listener of Camping’s who had some insight into this whackjob’s views (for […]

What's Up Doc?
Dear Dr. Kate: When Should I Tell a Partner About Oral Herpes?

photo via Flickr 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, I am a woman with oral herpes. Is this something I should tell new partners […]

News
Naked News: Peen Heels, Kiddie Botox & Fancy-Schmancy Condoms

Damn you American Idol, for covering up Lady Gaga’s penis heels with your logo! The latest craze in luxury sex accessories: $5 dollar condoms. Mommy, I want a pony….and wrinkle-free skin: Botox for 8 year olds. New research says a similar level of commitment is what makes relationships last. Read the rest of this post […]

Dream Interpretation
Dream Interpretation: My Crackhead Ex Beats Up My Crush

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: Last night after my goodbye party from work, I had a dream that I was with my love-interest (not boyfriend […]

Pop Culture
Books: The Lover’s Dictionary

The nameless narrator of David Levithan’s novel The Lover’s Dictionary narrates his relationship in the form of dictionary definitions of words, from aberrant to zenith. Some definitions are a page long, others just a sentence. Which makes it sound gimmicky and cute and Twitterific, but this book is anything but. It’s moving, hilarious, heartbreaking and […]

Websites
Blog Snog: When You Snoop and Regret It

photo via Flickr CollegeCandy: I snooped on my boyfriend and I totally regret it. YourTango: The five worst ways to reignite attraction in a relationship. TheFrisky: Four romantic books to disgust and annoy your lover. MyDaily: Combining finances in the name of love. TresSugar: The seven deadly sins of Disney dudes. EdenFantasys’ Sexis: Is it […]

Toys
How Sex Toys Are Recycled

Last week our friends at the UK sex toy retailer LoveHoney.co.uk launched a short, fascinating video about how sex toys (and other stuff like toasters) get recycled. It’s part of their Rabbit Amnesty program: you send them your battered and bruised sex toys and they give you Lovehoney loyalty points (“Oh points”) that you can […]

How To
Headphones: A New Twist on Sensory Deprivation

photo by SS.ma You know the basic idea of sensory deprivation, right? You limit one or more senses, and the others gets stronger. Limit everything but touch, and your orgasm will feel like the center of the universe. You may have done this without even knowing you were enjoying sensory deprivation — when you blindfold […]

Dear Em & Lo
Your Call: My Husband Wants Gay 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, My husband […]

News
Who Will Love Your Pets When You’ve Been Lifted Up to Heaven?

photo via Flickr As we’re sure you know, the Rapture is this Saturday, May 21st, 2011. You know, the day when good Christians like yourself (we’re assuming) who’ve accepted Jesus as their personal Lord and Savior will be physically lifted up to Heaven. All your atheist, Muslim, Jewish, Mormon, and pagan friends will be left […]

Polls
Poll: “The Prom” vs “Prom”

It being that time of year, we wanted to get a definitive answer on the eternal question: Does one go to “the prom” (as Time magazine suggests in their “Brief History of the Prom”) or just “prom” (a la Molly Ringwald in Pretty in Pink: “What about prom, Blaine?”).