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Holiday Blog Snog: Tofurkeys, Gift Sets & Black Friday Flings

photo by spine YourTango suggests three ways to celebrate Thanksgiving if it’s just the two of you this year. Lemondrop lists the 11 blasts from the past you’ll meet at your hometown bar on Black Friday. The Frisky tells you what booze to bring to Thanksgiving dindin. Goodvibes gets the holiday season in gear with […]

What's Up Doc?
What’s Up Doc?: Dr. Kate & Dr. Vanessa Answer Your Questions

We’re thrilled to introduce “What’s Up Doc?”, the EMandLO.com area where you can find answers to your sex-related medical questions from our long-time friend Dr. Kate, and our new contributor, Planned Parenthood’s Dr. Vanessa Cullins — every week! Dr. Kate, of Gynotalk.com, is an OB/GYN at one of the largest teaching hospitals in New York City; […]

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Naked News: Adam Lambert’s Impromptu On-Air Make-Out Sesh

Adam Lambert calls the west coast feed editing of his American Music Awards performance this past Sunday (which included simulating receiving oral sex and tonguing a dude) “discrimination.” A new study analyzed 914 films released widely between 2001 and 2005 and concluded that “sex and nudity do not, on the average, boost box office performance, […]

Confessions
Comment of the Week: Size Really Doesn’t Matter. Really.

Barb, on the post “My New Boyfriend Has a Small Penis”: I went from dating a very well endowed man to dating a, well, not so well endowed man. I was shocked at first too. He was without a doubt the smallest man I had ever dated. To my amazement, he was also the most […]

Wise Guys
Wise Guys: What’s the Definition of Bad Sex?

photo by rileyroxx Advice from three of our guy friends. This week they answer the following: “What’s the definition of bad sex?“ Straight Single Guy (Chris): Good sex is a function of the physical and the mental. For women, the mental part may be much more about nurturing and safety, or so I’ve read. For […]

Pop Culture
Britain’s Bad Sex Award Pits Philip Roth Against Nick Cave

photo of Nick Cave via Los Angeles Times If there’s one thing the Brits are good at, it’s laughing about sex, whether it’s lowbrow, bum-pinching humor — paging Benny Hill — or the highbrow upper echelons of London’s literary society. The cool kids in the latter category are definitely at the Literary Review magazine, with their […]

Dream Interpretation
Dream Interpretation: What Does a Long Embrace Mean?

photo by psd 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: This really isn’t a sex dream at all, but I have dreamt twice this week of hugging (very long embrace) […]

Websites
Blog Snog: Racy Wedding Pics, Sex Don’ts, & Victorian Sex Slang

image by JessAndTheCity (not the photograher in the story, fyi) A weekly roundup of some of our favorite (and not so favorite) sex- and love-related posts from various blogs and websites: LemonDrop reports on a bride who sued a photographer for posting online racy photos of her taken as she was getting ready for her […]

Pop Culture
Pine-Sol Ad Jumps On Housework-Improves-Sex Bandwagon

photo from Porn for Women Finally! An ad for a cleaning product that doesn’t feature a woman going into an orgasmic paroxysm over a new mop. Only on Madison Avenue does doing the chores turn a woman on. Sure, Pine-Sol may have shamelessly ripped off the Porn for Women books with their new ad, but […]

Polls
Men-Only Poll: How Long Should Intercourse Last?

MEN: How long do you think intercourse (actual penile penetration) should last, ideally? (Apologies to readers whose sexual repertoire doesn’t include this.)(online surveys) Can’t see the poll? Click here to take it.

Polls
Women-Only Poll: How Long Should Intercourse Last?

WOMEN: How long do you think intercourse (actual penile penetration) should last, ideally? (Apologies to readers whose sexual repertoire doesn’t include this.)(survey) Can’t see the poll? Click here to take it.

Pop Culture
The First (All) Gay Superhero Comic

If you suspected a few members of the Justice League of America were gay (hello, Aquaman?) and always wished they’d come out of the closet, there’s now a new ALL-gay superhero comic just for you. It’s called Spandex. What it lacks in artistic skill (visually speaking, this ain’t no DC Comic), it makes up for […]

What's Up Doc?
Dear Dr. Kate: I’m SO Confused About HPV!

photo by db*photography An anonymous poster on our site — calling themselves “medical knowledge” — recently wrote the following in response to an edition of our advice column about HPV. So we asked our own Dr. Kate — of Gynotalk.com — to clear things up, as it were. First, the anonymous comment: 80% of sexually […]

Confessions
Comment of the Week: The Stupak Back-and-Forth

In response to our post “What You Need to Know About the Stupak Amendment,” commenter Kile wrote: Your article is non-sensical.  You state that women would have to buy a rider for a completely unexpected event, (who plans to have an abortion?) ALL insurance is for unexpected events.  People don’t buy car insurance because they […]

How To
10 Ways to Win Over Your Partner’s Parents This Thanksgiving

Image via IMDB You know the relationship is serious when you’re spending any major holiday with your significant other’s family. Sure, you may have met them briefly once or twice before, but something like Thanksgiving is the battleground where approval can be won or lost forever. So follow these ten simple rules to ensure your […]

News
Naked News: Britain’s Belle du Jour Reveals Her True Identity

Showtime’s series “Secret Diary of a Call Girl” was based on the blog and book by Belle du Jour Britain’s most famous — and heretofore anonymous — sex worker and blogger, Belle du Jour, reveals her true identity…turns out she’s a specialist in developmental neurotoxicology and cancer epidemiology. We shit you not. And in case […]