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Do It Tonight
Do It Tonight! Rip Your Shirt Off

photo by ellie Sometimes it’s nice to take things slowly, to undress each other as an act of love, to undo every button with unrushed focus. Other times, you just want to rip off each other’s clothes, literally! But this is often impractical. People pay a lot of hard-earned money on their wardrobes, and as […]

Personal Essays
Confession: Student/R.A. Love, the Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name

  Our contributor Antonio Reis, a first year at Wesleyan, has a confession to make on behalf of his friend: At 5:00 am, I wake up to the sound of fists pounding my dorm-room door. Groggily I get up and open it and am swiftly pushed back onto my bed by Sara as she bursts […]

Wise Guys
Wise Guys: Do Men Appreciate a Helping Hand?

photo by permanently scatterbrained Advice from four of our guy friends. This week they answer the following: I’ve heard that it’s not worth giving a guy a handjob because he can just do it better himself. Is that true? Straight Married Guy (Jamie): Sadly, yes.  But I think the problem is just one of misconception […]

TV
The Best Bachelor Ever!

Douche and Freckles on the season finale of The Batch It is with great shame that I, Lo, admit to having watched almost all 17 (!) horrendous seasons of The Bachelor on ABC. But last night’s “After the Final Rose” special (an in-studio event where the betrothed and the rejected appear together 3 months after […]

Dear Em & Lo
Your Call: What Do His Mixed Signals Mean?

photo by treeonme 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: My Boyf Washed My Sister's Feet, Naked

photo by .Harry 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 woman asks Lauri: My boyfriend of four months is a great guy: sweet, caring, considerate, good chemistry. We live about an hour away […]

Do It Tonight
Do It Tonight! Embrace All Those Dating Cliches

photo by mikebaird Dates are not unlike weddings: None of the traditions are trite when they’re happening to you. For this reason, there is absolutely nothing wrong with going for long walks on the beach, making out on a shag rug in front of a roaring fire, buying each other a single red rose from […]

Websites
Blog Snog (02-27-09)

A weekly roundup of sex- and love-related posts from some of our favorite blogs: The Midwest Teen Sex Show finds out what happens when vaginas stop being polite and start getting real. A new blog anonymously posts people’s “25 Things About My Sexuality” lists. Feministing reviews the fabu Chicago sex shop, Early to Bed. College […]

Pop Culture
Celebrities Do It Too (02-27-09)

photo by chris_natt Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp are the two top rated celebrities on the “sex pass” list…you know, the celebrities that your significant other supposedly gives you permission to sleep with. We’re guessing that “I have a sex pass to sleep with you” is bottom on the list of pickup lines that would […]

Do It Tonight
Do It Tonight! Try a Polyurethane Condom

When you consider the long history of condoms (they’ve been around since people started putting tortoiseshells on their jammies), one of the more recent developments is polyurethane: the material of the future, a Walt Disney wet dream, plastic. The benefits of polyurethane are myriad: Much, much thinner, odor-free and tasteless, transparent and thus respectful of […]

Dear Em & Lo
Your Call: Should He Return the Favor?

photo by rick 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, every now and then, we’ll let you guys decide how to advise a reader. Make your call by filling out the poll […]

Pop Culture
Books: Tasting Him

Rachel Kramer Bussel is a sex writer who makes us feel like all we do is sit on our couches eating candy. She’s published 26 — count ’em, 26! — books on the subject. Two of her most recent titles are a matching set on oral sex — Tasting Him and Tasting Her. (Admittedly, not […]

What's Up Doc?
Dr. Kate: My Orgasm Turned Into a Pain Spasm

photo by luisvilla Dear Dr. Kate, The other day my guy & I were having sex and just when I was about to orgasm I felt a sudden sharp pain in the lower left of my abdomen. It was such a strong terrible pain that there was no way for my guy to not notice. […]

Confessions
Do It Tonight! Okay, So Maybe You Can Leave Your Socks On.

photo by eyeliam Just a week ago we told you to leave something on in bed every now and then — just not your socks. But we feel it is our duty to report that scientists have found that keeping your socks on makes it easier for both men and women to have an orgasm. […]

Personal Essays
Confession: My New Crush Is HIV+

photo by ChrisLee0407 Our contributor Anonymous Bosch is a college student on the west coast. And that’s all he’s prepared to say right now. Except this… All my life, I have been schooled in the ways of safer sex by everyone from school to PSAs to my mother: If you don’t want to contract a […]

Pop Culture
Celebrities Do It Too (02-24-09)

photo by KrappR Hugh Jackman proves he’s worthy of the Sexiest Man Alive title by staying married to his (let’s just say it) less attractive wife, being cool to work with, putting on the first decent Oscars opening in a long time, and giving Barbara Wawa a lap dance as if she wasn’t 100 years […]