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Dear Em & Lo
Dear Em & Lo: Should I Break Up with My Boyfriend?

photo by MyLifeStory Dear Em & Lo, I am 23 years old and Aiden, my boyfriend of four years, and I are currently four months into a long distance relationship until I graduate from my university this summer and move across the country to be with him. I recently connected with Josh, a guy that […]

Pop Culture
Princesses Having a Hard Time with Their “Happily Ever After”

“Cinder 3” by Dina Goldstein Princesses can’t seem to catch a break these days. People are poo-poo-ing Disney’s “The Princess and the Frog”; they’re criticizing princesses not only for raising passive human dolls, but for turning those kids into spoiled little brats; even guys, who normally don’t pay attention to this stuff, have had enough […]

Personal Essays
Confession: Porn Makes My Heart Grow Colder

photo by TheNaughtyAmerican.com Our contributor, who wishes to remain anonymous, has a confession to make (in response to the recent confession by another contributor, “Porn Makes My Heart Grow Fonder“). I don’t like porn.  Which strikes me as strange since not only do I love sex, I study it. But there’s just something about porn […]

Wise Guys
Wise Guys: Do Men Ever Choose Masturbation Over Sex?

photo by slushpup Advice from three of our guy friends. This week a straight woman asks, “Do guys ever choose masturbation over sex? If so, why?” Straight Married Guy (Ben): Sure. Plenty of times. Sometimes my wife isn’t around and I don’t really feel like waiting. Or sometimes she is around but really tired, or […]

Vids
Tampax — Yes, Tampax — Makes Awesome Little Indie

Okay, we know it’s just one big commercial, but we don’t care: “Zack 16” is a great little piece of movie-making. At the beginning of this 4-part series (which you can watch in one go), Zach wakes up to find his boy parts replaced by girl parts! Sure, it trades in some tired old cliches […]

Dream Interpretation
Dream Interpretation: My Cheating Fiance’s in the Driver’s Seat

photo by Adriano Agullo 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 (after the jump). This week, a woman asks Lauri: In real life, my fiancé and I have been together for about a year and a […]

Research
Bisexuality: Doing it Like They Do on the Discovery Channel

photo by Paul Mannix We were tickled pink a few weeks back when we read about the so-called gay penguins who were raising an adopted chick. But “bisexual penguins” would probably have been more accurate; most scientists agree that animals that engage in same-sex activity don’t usually shun heterosexual encounters. Rather, they simply have ingrained […]

Websites
Blog Snog (06-19-08)

“Bridget Jones’ Diary” drawn on Jeremy Piven  by Lemondrop A weekly roundup of some of our favorite sex- and love-related posts from various blogs and websites: Sick of the “naked chicks with writing on them” theme in men’s mags, Lemondrop spoofs Esquire‘s latest cover, which features a nude Bar Refaeli covered in text from a […]

Research
Study: The Car Doesn’t Maketh the Man

photo by Qole_Pejorian In news that will probably be surprising only to the male readers of this site, a recent study found that expensive cars don’t really impress the ladies. Researchers in Australia measured changes in the brain responses of women toward a range of men in different cars. Turns out a man having a […]

Websites
Contest Winners: Name That Schlong!

The marmoset penis, a.k.a. jacchus hammer Thanks to everyone who entered our Name That Schlong contest, inspired by the “Why Vagina” episode of the second season of wacky Isabella Rossellini’s “Green Porno” series on SundanceChannel.com. As all but one of you guessed, the arrow is indeed pointing to the marmoset’s penis — not that you […]

Vids
Dating Horror Story #483

KRISTEN WIIG & BRIAN PETSOS in “Barry” Funny. (Until the whole little sexual assault thing at the end.)

Pop Culture
Books: American Parent

 Sam Apple just came out with his second memoir (after Schlepping Through the Alps) called American Parent. From it, we learned that The Lamaze Method was created by Stalinists and based on false science that was forced upon the Soviet scientific community because the government couldn’t afford pain relief drugs for women in labor. […]

Advice
Remember This Sunday: 10 Things Dad Inadvertently Taught You About Sex

photo by Evil Erin It’s Father’s Day on Sunday, June 21st this year — don’t forget to call and thank yours for all the wonderful advice. Always take time to warm up before athletic events. Use headcovers for your woodies. Passing gas jokingly around loved ones is only done by old, married people (your parents) […]