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How To
How to Plan a First Date

Given how much it takes out of a person simply to approach a stranger at a bar, let alone get their number or ask them out, it seems unfair that you’ve then got to plan the perfect date, too. Unfortunately going to Disneyland isn’t usually a viable option — and neither’s Dollywood, which is too […]

What's Up Doc?
Dr. Kate’s Female Sexual Dysfunction Series: AROUSAL PROBLEMS (Part 3 of 5)

All this month Dr. Kate, an OB/GYN at one of the largest teaching hospitals in New York City, is dedicating her column on EMandLO.com to the topic female sexual dysfunction, since that’s what she seems to get the most inquiries about. Click here for all the installments of her five part series being published every […]

What's Up Doc?
Dr. Kate, I Fall Asleep After Orgasms…and I’m a Woman!

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 every few weeks on EMandLO.com. To ask her your own question, click here. Dear Dr. Kate, I sleep so much better after an orgasm! Sometimes when I’m having trouble sleeping […]

Confessions
Comment of the Week: Are Bisexuals More Likely to Cheat?

For the record, when we select a Comment of the Week, it’s not necessarily an endorsement of that commenter’s opinion — rather, it’s a comment that we feel is interesting for some reason: for the debate it sparks, perhaps, or the buttons it pushes. And it’s in that spirit that we present the following fairly […]

How To
How to Boost a Woman’s Sexual Self-Esteem

photo by jamiesrabbits Men’s Health asked us to contribute some ideas to a piece they did recently on boosting women’s sexual self-esteem. Since the majority of the advice we slave over for this kind of thing often ends up on the cutting room floor, we like to offer it up here for you in all […]

Research
Naked News: Eating Carrots Makes You More Attractive

photo by Fovea Centralis Study shows eating carrots makes you more attractive. And not just to rabbits. New Yorkers strip to their undies to celebrate the 10th annual No Pants Subway Ride. Ryan Gosling says the sex in Blue Valentine “felt real,” which is why the film initially got an NC-17 rating. Listening to music […]

Wise Guys
Wise Guys – What Do Men Wish They Could Change About Their Sexuality?

photo by nick johnson Advice from three of our guy friends. This week a straight woman asks,“If you could change one thing about male sexuality, what would it be?” Straight Single Guy (Tyler Barnett): Male sexuality is not always as simple as it seems. Sure, we love sex, but so do women. In fact, I […]

Dream Interpretation
Dream Interpretation: I Accidentally Cut Off My Penis

photo by Ted Drake 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: I dreamed that I accidentally cut off my penis. It eventually was easily attached back in place, but after […]

Research
Research Shows a Woman’s Tears Kill a Man’s Libido

photo by David Blackwell Scientists have long pondered the mystery of why humans, unlike other species, cry emotional tears. A new study provides a few answers — as well as raising a whole bunch of new questions. Basically, researchers found that men who sniffed drops of women’s emotional tears became less sexually aroused than when […]

Websites
Blog Snog: Pomegranates for the Sensual Foodie

photo by chany crystal EdenFantasys’ Sexis: Pomegranates for the sensual foodie. TheFrisky: In praise of angry sex. TresSugar: 8 signs you’re an internet stalker. CollegeCandy: Sometimes you have to create your own closure. YourTango: Why you shouldn’t settle for a low libido. TomFoolery: The “duck face” profile photo may be a good dating strategy. LemonDrop: […]

Vids
We’re in a Ted Talk! (Sort of)

If you’re a faithful reader of EMandLO.com, then you know we love us a good Ted Talk. So we were thrilled to discover that the two of us were in one! Well, just a fleeting picture of us, but we’ll take what we can get. Our old boss, Nerve.com-founder Rufus Griscom, went on to found […]

Your Call
Your Call: I Can’t Handle My 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: Dear Em and Lo, I am […]

Research
Why Do Lesbians Earn More Than Straight Women?

photo by janet calcaterra Research shows that lesbian women earn more than straight women — even when you control for the facts that lesbian women tend to be better-educated, more likely to be white, live in cities, have fewer children, and more likely to be professionals. So how to explain this wage gap? Economics professor Marina Adshade […]

Personal Essays
Confession: The Top 10 Noises That Remind Me of Sex

photo by NOAA’s National Ocean Service Our contributor Abby Spector, who is majoring in Feminine/Gender/Sexuality Studies at Wesleyan University, confesses which noises remind her of sex: Weight lifting. I am currently visiting friends who live below a weight lifter. (By weight lifter I mean a scrawny college student who is hoping muscle milk will wash […]

What's Up Doc?
Dr. Kate’s Female Sexual Dysfunction Series: DESIRE PROBLEMS (Part 2 of 5)

All this month Dr. Kate, an OB/GYN at one of the largest teaching hospitals in New York City, is dedicating her column on EMandLO.com to the topic female sexual dysfunction, since that’s what she seems to get the most inquiries about. Click here for all the installments of her five part series being published every […]

Confessions
Comment of the Week: It’s the Little Things

I, responding to the post (yes, the comments are still rolling in on this one!) “My New Boyfriend Has a Small Penis…At Least, It’s Small to Me”: My boyfriend and I have sex often and he is about three inches. I orgasm mutiple times every time we have sex. I have been with a man […]