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Books: The Impostor’s Daughter

The Impostor’s Daughter by Laurie Sandell Laurie Sandell’s graphic memoir, The Impostor’s Daughter, just hit bookstores, and even if she wasn’t our good friend, we’d still tell you that it’s our number one pick for a beach read this summer. (By the way, “graphic memoir” = graphic novel-style memoir. The rest of the book is […]

Dear Em & Lo
How One Couple Conquered Jealousy In Their Open Relationship

About 18 months ago we answered a reader’s plea for advice about her open relationship. And then just this week we heard from the reader’s boyfriend, Zac, who told us that the advice totally worked! We’re suckers for a success story, especially when it’s one of our own, so we thought we’d reprint the various […]

Dream Interpretation
Dream Interpretation: I Cheated on My Husband in Our Kitchen

photo by Paul Keleher 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 male reader asks Lauri: I’m in the kitchen and a guy who is about 5 years younger than I am enters.  Apparently […]

Personal Essays
Confession: Weight Gain Killed My Sex Life

Our contributor is a student at an East coast university. And that’s all she’s willing to say. Except this… There’s something about the heat of the summer sun that makes everyone a little more frisky, a little more excited, a little more promiscuous — it’s the season of bathing suits, little clothing, late-night dates, sex […]

Wise Guys
Wise Guys: Are You Down with Just Cuddling All Night?

photo by MShades Advice from three of our guy friends. This week a straight woman asks, “What do you guys think of a new date who wants to sleep over but doesn’t want to have sex?” Straight Single Guy (Max): Personally, I say bravo. The longer you make me work for it the better everything […]

News
Naked News (08-04-09)

photo by yaaaay Yawning before sex may actually be a good thing. Newsweek — yes Newsweek — has a whole polyamory extravaganza online. Yay, another excuse to drink! Red wine may increase a woman’s sex drive. Read the rest of this post on SUNfiltered

Dear Em & Lo
Can a Marriage Survive a Consensual Third Party?

We know that a helpful answer to this question goes deeper than a multiple-choice poll, so we encourage you to cast your vote and then leave your advice/war stories/encouragement for Maybe Baby in the comments section below. Dear Em & Lo, I hope you can help me and my wife with our problem.We have been […]

Advice
What Is the G-Spot? Where Is the G-Spot? How Does It Work?

The other week, the ladies on “The View” got into a debate about the existence and “alleged” location of the G-spot. Considering all the lip service (ha!) given to the G-spot in women’s mags, we thought we’d gotten beyond all this. Apparently not. The View gals referred to a Yahoo.com article that claimed it doesn’t […]

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Reproduction, Us Weekly-style: Celebrity Look-a-Like Sperm Donors

At the Cryobank sperm bank in (natch) L.A., you can select a donor based on which celebrity he resembles Online dating neophytes will sometimes get lured into a blind date with someone whose profile boasts that they bear a striking resemblance to, say, Robert Pattinson. It takes only one — okay, maybe two or three […]

Websites
Blog Snog (07-31-09)

photo by Angie22Arts A weekly roundup of some of our favorite sex- and love-related posts from various blogs and websites: TresSugar outlines the vampire’s transformation from sadist to softie in 6 steps. College Candy explains how cheap apartments in Manhattan always come with a catch (like, “Must be willing to have bedroom regularly transformed into […]

Pop Culture
The Ancient Book of Sex and Science

When you, as an adult, spend the majority of your time creating adorable G-rated worlds for kids, that hidden sexual side of you is bound to come out — and probably, shall we say, enthusiastically. (Anyone remember the movie S.O.B. in which squeaky clean Julie “Mary Poppins” Andrews rips off her top and exposes her […]

Toys
Almost Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silicone Lubes

Pink love gel The future of sex is silicone, and the future of sex is now. (And, no, this has nothing to do with fake ta-tas.) Yesterday we covered silicone toys, today it’s silicone lube. It feels and works just like oil — i.e., it’s waterproof (bring on the shower nozzle!), a little goes a […]

Toys
Most Useless iPhone App Ever Claims to Rate Your Sex Life

Maybe we’re just jealous because we’re still trying to come up with an iPhone application that will make us millions while we sleep (why oh why did we not come up with iFart first?), but we think that the new Passion iPhone app that scores your boinks has about as much to do with good […]

Polls
Poll: What Do You Call Someone Who’s Been Cheated On?

What’s the best term for someone who’s been cheated on by their spouse or a long-term partner?(survey software) Can’t see the poll? Click here to take it. And check out our post on “cuckold wives” that inspired this poll.

Toys
Almost Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silicone Toys

Silicone “Theta” from Tantus Silicone is an inorganic polymer. Or, better put, the safest soft material for anything you’re going to insert in your bod — no contest. Here’s the long list explaining why: There are no pores to harbor bad bacteria, you can put it in your dishwasher, you can sterilize it by boiling […]

Personal Essays
Confession: My BF and I Created a Fantasy Suggestion Box

photo by hashmil Our contributor, who wishes to remain anonymous, has a confession to make: My boyfriend and I used to fuck like bunnies.  And I don’t mean we were cute and cuddly in bed — I mean, we did it like they do on the Discovery Channel.  We couldn’t keep our dirty little paws […]