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Advice
Word of the Week: Schrodinger’s Date

photo by Southern_Foodways_Alliance Okay, so it’s technically two words, but “Phrase of the Week” just doesn’t roll off the tongue in quite the same way. Anyway, “Schrodinger’s Date” is something that feels kind of like a date but may be more accurately described as a period of hanging out as a prelude to fucking. Even […]

Pop Culture
Happy Birthday, Betty Dodson!

There isn’t better proof that an active, healthy, happy sex life keeps you looking young and vibrant than Betty Dodson, the great American sex educator who basically invented sex-positive feminism and almost single-handedly made masturbation okay for women. She turns 80 today — and she doesn’t look a day over 60! She’s in the process […]

Research
MRI Sex

Pek Van Andel won the 1999 Ig Nobel Prize in medicine for a report published in the British Medical Journal on the world’s first MRI images of a couple’s sexual organs during actual intercourse. Well, Van Andel turned those images into a video, which is just now available online for the first time. Enjoy. Read […]

Websites
Blog Snog (08-21-09)

photo by Mykl_Roventine A weekly roundup of some of our favorite sex- and love-related posts from various blogs and websites: We love The Frisky’s A-Z Guide to Male Names: Ian makes a great gay boyfriend, Patrick secretly worships Prince, William is an excellent tennis player (but not good at much else), and Steven has potent […]

Research
In Sleep vs. Sex Battle, the Winner is…Mattresses, Pills and PDAs

photo by audreyjm529 It seems like every few years, someone comes out with a study about what percentage of the population would choose a good night’s sleep over sex. The studies are usually sponsored by a mattress company, or a pharmaceutical firm developing non-addictive (riiiiight) sleeping pills, or — as in the most recent case […]

Dear Em & Lo
Dear Em & Lo: My Vibrator Doesn’t Kiss or Cuddle

photo by Ciaran_McGuiggan Dear Em & Lo, I’m a 24-year-old woman who hasn’t had sex in 4 years, 10 months, 15 days, 5 hours, 51 minutes…well, you get the idea. I had my first boyfriend when I was twenty and it lasted for four months. He was my first sexual partner, and as of today, […]

Confessions
Comment of the Week: On Men and Cheating

“I am a man, young, full of testosterone. [I] run, surf, box and practice Tae Kwen Do. I do not accept that explanation about testosterone being culprit for cheating. That is the excuse of the imbecile, the boorish and the mentally retarded.” — James, commenting on the poll “Would You Cheat…“

Dream Interpretation
Dream Interpretation: What Do Women’s Wet Dreams Mean?

photo by Photos8.com 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, we wanted to get our dream analyst’s take on last week’s question to Dr. Kate about wet dreams: I’ll just cut right to the […]

Wise Guys
Wise Guys: What Do Men Think of Cougars?

photo by Harlequeen Advice from three of our guy friends. This week a straight woman asks, “What do men in general think about cougars?” Gay Single Guy (Jay Dyckman): “I am Cougar, hear me roar, In years too big to ignore…” If it isn’t already, this should be the anthem for the beloved cougar.  Prowl […]

News
Naked News (08-18-09)

photo by babasteve In horrifying international news: A new Afghan bill allows a man to withhold food from his wife if she refuses his sexual demands. In no-duh news: Kids use the web to look up “sex.” Stewie from Family Guy is outed. Read the rest of this post on SUNfiltered

Dear Em & Lo
Your Call: Can a Bad Boyfriend Make a Good Booty Call?

photo by _StaR_DusT_ Dear Em & Lo, I am in a situation where I can’t let go of my ex boyfriend. We dated for almost a year and in the beginning I felt loved, but as time went on he stopped calling. He wouldn’t answer my calls, didn’t reply to my texts — and that […]

Pop Culture
Dumb Video of the Week: Ben Taylor’s “Wicked Way”

Look, we’re all for the occasional casual sex, especially when it’s between two parties who equally understand the casual nature of said fling, who are fully aware of the inherent risks of such behavior, and who treat each other with kindness and respect even though they may never see each other again. But this stupid […]

News
Candie’s “Sexes Up” Abstinence Campaign

The Candie’s Foundation’s pro-abstinence tee We guess it was only a matter of time before the true-love-waits crew decided to use sex to sell abstinence. After all, if sex can sell anything — even, ew, toilet paper — why shouldn’t it be used to promote the very absence of sex? That’s so po-mo our heads […]

Toys
The Hitachi Magic Wand’s Rival: The Wahl Vibe

The Wahl 7-in-1 Sometimes called the Wahl 7-in-1 or the Wahl Coil, the Wahl is second only to the Hitachi Magic Wand in the wink-wink, nudge-nudge, “no, really, it’s a ‘back massager” charade. The Wahl is coil operated, which means it’s lighter, faster, and waaaay quieter than the Hitachi. Like the Hitachi, a Wahl can […]