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Dear Em & Lo
Your Call: Should She Fess Up Her Indiscretion?

photo by rileyroxx 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: Stuck in a Waiting Room with Cheating Ex

photo by PinkMoose 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: Real life: The guy I’d been seeing for a couple of years became involved with another woman […]

Uncategorized
Don't Be Caught Dead Reading That

Clever Covers You read the New York Times weekend edition cover to cover; you spice up cocktail party conversation by quoting Proust and Kant; you adore obscure indie shorts on SundanceChannel.com. You’re an intellectual who never shies away from metaphysical debates or multi-syllabic words. BUT…you’ve got a deep dark secret: you’re addicted to trashy romance […]

Websites
Blog Snog (04-17-09)

Lindsay Lohan’s eHarmony Profile A weekly roundup of sex- and love-related posts from some of our favorite blogs and websites: Funny or Die hosts Linday Lohan’s fake eHarmony ad. Would it be more or less funny if this wasn’t her only starring vehicle in about a decade? Leave it to the Germans to plug condoms […]

Toys
Tantus Is a Titan Among Sex Toys

Delta Vibrator from Tantus We’re big proponents of high quality sex toys made from body-safe materials, which is why we’ve always been big fans of Tantus — they’re a relatively small American manufacturer of 100% medical grade silicone toys. They recently sent out this training video to their retailers in order to help sales people […]

Confessions
Altoids as Sex Toy: Fact or Fiction?

photo by Mistral938 This “curiously strong mint” with sexy ad tag lines (“Pleasure in pain”; “These mints have not yet been rated”; “Shrinkage may occur”; “Dental Damn!”) was the subject of a widely circulated 1997 email extolling the mints’ powers as an oral sex aid. (Hmmmm, we wonder who originally sent that email? Could it […]

What's Up Doc?
Dear Dr. Kate: Does Long-Term Pill Usage Make It Hard to Get Pregnant Later?

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. Dear Dr. Kate, Right now I am absolutely not interested in having children. But in time, all things change. I have […]

News
Gay Marriage: Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid

image from Wordboner It’s this kind of thing — a new, totally rad T-shirt logo from Wordboner — that scares the bejeezus out of homophobes like the National Organization for Marriage. So frightened are they of an imaginary army of gay soldiers forcing them into a life of sodomy that they put together this gem […]

Polls
Gents Only Poll: Are You a Faker?

<a href =”http://answers.polldaddy.com/poll/1525229/” >Men, have you ever faked an orgasm?</a> <br/> <span style=”font-size:9px;” mce_style=”font-size:9px;”> (<a href =”http://www.polldaddy.com”> online polls</a>)</span> Can’t see the poll? Click here to take it.

Dear Em & Lo
Dear Em & Lo: Should I Date Him If He's About to Relocate?

photo by bimurch Dear Em & Lo, I met a boy a few weeks ago and things have been fantastic. We had been talking occasionally in a coffee shop as friends, and one day we decided to be really spontaneous and take a road trip. We ended up discovering a lot of chemistry that night. […]

Advice
Just Broke Up? Get a Breakover!

photo by House of Sims When it comes to revenge after a breakup (and if you’re the dumpee, you know you want it), there are two approaches: the high road and the low road. A breakover is all high road — it’s the kind of revenge that benefits you, rather than directly harming your ex, […]

Personal Essays
Confession: Shakespeare in Lust

Venus and Adonis photo by griannan Our contributor Lisa DiCarlucci, a Print Journalism major and English minor at Hofstra University, has a confession to make: The expense of spirit in a waste of shame Is lust in action; and till action, lust Is perjured, murderous, bloody, full of blame, Savage, extreme, rude, cruel, not to […]

Wise Guys
Wise Guys: What’s the Deal with Fake Boobs?

Advice from three of our guy friends. This week a straight woman asks, “So what’s the deal with fake boobs — are straight guys into them or not? Does it make a difference whether they’re just looking (e.g. porn, strip club, Hollywood star) vs. touching (e.g. a hook-up)? And does it make a difference whether […]

Research
Naked News (04-14-09)

photo from Green Porno 1 Mean green porno: flies engage in “chemical warfare” to control their mate’s sex drive. Yay, another excuse to drink! Study says red wine may increase women’s libidos. Science isn’t always progressive: Male chimps treat females to nice steak dinner, get laid. Read the rest of this post on SUNfiltered

Dear Em & Lo
Your Call: Should She Fight for Her Ex?

photo by briannaorg 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 […]