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Dear Em & Lo
Dear Em & Lo: I Have Zero Sex Drive. What’s Wrong with Me?

Dear Em & Lo, I’m a 23-year old woman in a relationship with a wonderful guy — we’re celebrating two years together this month. We’re pretty serious about each other, but we have a serious hangup: I have very little sex drive. I’m not sure if he’s got an average drive or if he’s got […]

Pop Culture
Safer Sex Haiku Contest Winners!

Our two winners will receive this Tantalising [sic] Lip Butter and that’s not all! The Body Shop and MTV’s awesomely named Staying Alive Foundation recently launched an STD awareness campaign called “Yes to Safe Sex” (we would have called it “Yes to Safer Sex,” but we’re sticklers like that). Since we’re suckers for anything safety-related […]

Personal Essays
Confession: My Boyf and I Are Going on a Break

photo by Matt Seppings Our contributor Kristine deGuzman, a junior at UC Berkeley, has a confession to make: I’m studying abroad in Spain over the summer, and my boyfriend and I have decided to go on a break, because, as he puts it, “This is a once in a lifetime opportunity. When else are you […]

Wise Guys
Wise Guys: What's the Big Deal About BJs?

photo by iandeth Advice from three of our guy friends. This week they answer the following: What’s the big deal about blowjobs — seriously, what makes them so special? Gay Single Guy (Daniel): On the physical level, it’s simple: they feel fucking amazing. They provide physical sensations so desirable that a straight man would let […]

News
Naked News (05-12-09)

photo by babasteve No joke: Saudia Arabia holds a “Miss Beautiful Morals” pageant. Gossip Girl takes a hit: Study links viewing adult-themed TV to earlier sex in teens. Oh, but Serena van der Woodsen and Chuck Bass make such good company on lonely, lonely nights. Finally! Funding for failed abstinence-only programs bites the dust under […]

Dear Em & Lo
Your Call: He Doesn't Want Marriage or Kids. Should I Move On?

photo by Clean_Wal-Mart We feel just awful that we can’t answer every single advice question we get, but we figure that any answer is better than no answer at all. Which is why, once a week, we’ll let you guys decide how to advise a reader. Make your call by filling out the poll after […]

Dream Interpretation
Dream Interpretation: A Wrecking Ball Crashes into My Life

photo by Editor B 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 my dream I woke up to find a demolition ball outside of our apparent apartment […]

Research
Study Shows Even Cheaters' Guilt Is Selfish

photo by optimal_tweezers Last week we explained how evolutionary psychologists can be so annoying sometimes, what with all their assumptions about modern-day dating and mating behavior based on hunter-gatherer societies. Sure, sometimes those theories are fascinating and even enlightening, but sometimes they’re just plain wrong. Well, here’s another one for the “assume makes an ass […]

Websites
Please, Do Us a HUGE Favor: Click on the Link Below!

photo by Studio Mohawk ***CLICK HERE!*** It’s a link to our SUNfiltered post on The Top 10 Things Your Mama Inadvertently Taught You About Sex By clicking on any of the links to it in this post you’ll be helping us make our mamas proud (okay, and maybe also helping us win a “most trafficked […]

Websites
How Fucking Romantic

comic by Dani Lurie on “How Fucking Romantic” This is what the internet is for: How Fucking Romantic is a brand new, wicked cool blog that’s illustrating the Magnetic Fields album “69 Love Songs,” one by one… Read the rest of this post on SUNfiltered

Pop Culture
Blog Snog (05-08-09)

A weekly roundup of some of our favorite sex- and love-related posts from various blogs and websites: Why the hell have we not done away with failed abstinence-only programs once and for all? YourTango’s got a pretty inspiring essay on hope for your sex life post-baby. Livesteez’s 10 signs your man is a scrub. Singlish’s […]

What's Up Doc?
Dear Dr. Kate: My G-Spot Is Not an Ecstasy Button

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. Dr. Kate, I have this great new boyfriend and we have fantastic sex — often including orgasm, sometimes rough and with […]

Do It Tonight
Top 10 Things Your Mama Inadvertently Taught You About Sex

photo by Lara604 It’s Mother’s Day this Sunday — don’t forget to call and thank her for all the wonderful advice. Always wear clean underwear. Trim your fingernails and wash your hands thoroughly and often. (It’ll help you avoid infection and make you less likely to tear delicate internal linings during manual sex.) Ladies first. […]

Dear Em & Lo
Dear Em & Lo: I Got My Period on a Booty Call

  Dear Em & Lo, For the past two weeks I have been sleeping with a guy I met here at college. The boundaries of our relationship have been well-established: late night phone calls for no-strings-attached sex. Nevertheless, I want to keep this thing going. However the last time we were together I had one […]