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Dear Em & Lo
Your Call: He's Fighting a War; I'm Hanging with His Wife

photo by army.mil Dear Em & Lo, I’ve been troubled by something lately. One of my exes (from several years ago) got married and recently moved into my town with her husband and infant son. Her husband is in the military and was deployed shortly thereafter. Since then she and I have become very close […]

Dream Interpretation
Dream Interpretation: My Now-Gay Ex Offered Me a Hot Dog

photo by TheBusyBrain 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: I had the strangest dream involving my ex.  I generally try not to think about him — […]

Research
Study: Some Playas Are Just Spreading the Love

photo by quaziefoto Where would this blog be without all the scientists who study why we do the things we do in bed? They’ve debunked the beer goggles theory, taught us that even cheaters’ guilt is selfish, and confirmed Paula Abdul’s hypothesis that opposites attract. And the latest breaking news from the lab? Not all […]

Advice
10 Things a Grown Woman Should Never Have

Poster of Robert Doisneau’s “Le baiser de l’hôtel de ville” via Art.com The Men’s Health article “18 Things a Grown Man Should Never Have” made us think we should have dated more Men’s Health readers back in our single days. (“10. A name for his penis. Even if it’s a really clever name. … 13. […]

Websites
Blog Snog (06-05-09)

A weekly roundup of some of our favorite sex- and love-related posts from various blogs and websites: Our new hero, Mrs. Betty Bowers, America’s Best Christian and founder of Bringing Integrity To Christian Homemakers (“which is a bit like Concerned Women for America, only slightly less concerned and with better shoes”), explains traditional marriage to […]

What's Up Doc?
Dear Dr. Kate: Do I Have to Tell My Partner I Have HPV?

photo by Edgar Zessinthal Dr. Kate is an OB/GYN at one of the largest teaching hospitals in New York City and she answers your medical questions here once a week. To ask her your own question, click here. Hi Dr. Kate, Sadly, I went to my annual OB-GYN appointment 2 weeks ago and was told […]

Polls
Would You Dump Someone If They Didn't Like Your Friends?

<br /> <a href=”http://answers.polldaddy.com/poll/1612833/” mce_href=”http://answers.polldaddy.com/poll/1612833/”>What would you do if the person you were seeing didn’t get on with your friends?</a><span style=”font-size:9px;” mce_style=”font-size:9px;”>(<a href=”http://www.polldaddy.com” mce_href=”http://www.polldaddy.com”>poll</a>)</span><br /> Can’t see the poll? Click here to take it.

Sexual Health
Dr. George Tiller in Doc "What's the Matter with Kansas?"

Salon.com has an extended scene from the forthcoming documentary “What’s the Matter With Kansas?“, based on Thomas Frank’s bestselling book of the same title about the Right Wing’s rise in the once-liberal state. It features Dr. George Tiller, the Wichita-based abortion provider who was gunned down last Sunday while attending church. The clip touches on […]

Websites
Contest: Name That Schlong!

Which creature’s penis is the arrow pointing to? If you haven’t familiarized yourself with the awe-inspiring variety among various species’ penises, here’s your chance. Scroll through the “Grand Gallery of Penises” (all of which are featured in the “Why Vagina” episode of the second season of wacky Isabella Rossellini’s “Green Porno” series on SundanceChannel.com) to […]

Dear Em & Lo
Advice: I Accidentally Said "I Love You"

photo by Xu 17 Hi Em & Lo, I just started dating this guy and recently we were making out, it was going well, he started to go down on me. I wanted to tell him “I love it when you go down on me” but it came out as ” I love you..when you […]

Personal Essays
Confession: My Top 5 Pornos for Us Ladies

Comstock Films makes great couples’ porn A couple of weeks ago, our friend confessed that porn makes her heart grow fonder — especially when she watches it with her boyfriend. So we asked her to compile a list of her top favorite porn movies or genres for watching with a partner. We’re constantly hearing from […]

News
Naked News (06-02-09)

photo by samie.shake News you can use: Research shows that history majors have the most active sex lives. Jerry Springer is secretly a pretty cool guy: he cries at chick flicks, he gets embarrassed on a daily basis, and his least favorite aspect of his appearance? “My mirror.” Our favorite Twitter of the week, courtesy […]

Wise Guys
Wise Guys: Is There Such a Thing as Too Much Cleavage?

photo by Stefan Andrej Shambora Advice from three of our guy friends. This week they answer the following: We know that men love boobs, but is there such a thing as too much cleavage? At what point — if any — does it become tacky to guys? Is it all about the situation and context? […]

News
Anti-Domestic Violence Ad Changes When You Look At It

“It happens when nobody is looking” is the tag line for this award-winning Amnesty International PSA about domestic violence. Installed in a bus stop in Germany, it features an eye-tracking device so that when people look at it, the image morphs from a scene of domestic violence into a scene of domestic bliss. (The image […]

Pop Culture
Books: Beowulf on the Beach (Part 2 of 2)

Last week we did a Q&A with Jack Murnighan, author of Beowulf on the Beach: What to Love and What to Skip in Literature’s 50 Greatest Hits, about the sexiest stuff in classic literature. Today we’ve got the “What’s Sexy” section of his chapter on the New Testament, reprinted with his permission of course: There’s […]

TV
Eminem & Bruno, Together At Last

MTV Shows Sacha Baron Cohen presented an award at the MTV Movie Awards last night as his German-fashion-maven character “Bruno”, dressed as a bare-assed angel who flies in over the audience and “accidentally” ends up sitting on attendee Eminem’s face. Was Eminem in on the stunt? Either way, it was brilliant live TV.