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Wise Guys
Wise Guys: Why Are Men Into Strip Clubs?

Advice from three of our guy friends. This week they answer the following: Why are some guys so into strip clubs? Do most guys buy into the fantasy that the stripper is actually enjoying herself — or don’t they care? Straight Single Guy (Colin): Lots of guys aren’t into strip clubs. Probably more are kind […]

Polls
Poll for Guys: How Much Sex Is Just Right?

<a href =”http://answers.polldaddy.com/poll/1375650/” >Gentlemen, what would be your optimal amount of sex with a partner? (Ladies, to answer this same question, please see our women-only poll.)</a> <br/> <span style=”font-size:9px;” mce_style=”font-size:9px;”> (<a href =”http://www.polldaddy.com”> surveys</a>)</span> If you can’t see the poll, please click here.

Polls
Poll for Gals: How Much Sex Is Just Right?

<a href =”http://answers.polldaddy.com/poll/1375629/” >Ladies, what would be your optimal amount of sex with a partner? (Gentlemen, to answer this same question, please see our men-only poll.)</a> <br/> <span style=”font-size:9px;” mce_style=”font-size:9px;”> (<a href =”http://www.polldaddy.com”> polls</a>)</span> If you can’t see the poll, please click here.

Dream Interpretation
Dream Interpretation: I Suddenly Miss My Ex

photo by The Prophet 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. (By the way, she’s got a newly relaunched website up where you can get more free interpretations). This week, a woman asks Lauri: My husband […]

Do It Tonight
Do It Tonight! Clean Your Room

photo by jinkazamah Your bedroom should be a sacred space for rest, relaxation, and rolling in the hay. Any reminders of everyday stresses — CNN on the television, files you brought home from the office, stacks of unpaid bills, your cellphone — can fill your room with negative energy. If you look over your honey’s […]

Confessions
Ladies: What Was Your Breakthrough Orgasm Moment?

photo by ellievanhoutte We’re researching a magazine article about women’s orgasms, and we want to hear your stories: What happened when you first had an orgasm, or when you first had one with a partner, or during intercourse, or with a vibrator…or without a vibrator. Or tell us how you became multi-orgasmic, or how you […]

Websites
Blog Snog (02-20-09)

photo by pedrosimoes7 A weekly roundup of sex- and love-related posts from some of our favorite blogs. YourTango explains why men are sloppy kissers. Apparently biology can explain all that tongue action. Our hilarious pals at the Frisky present their 44 Steps to Dumping a Boyfriend (their response to that genius video going around, How […]

Do It Tonight
Do It Tonight! Make Out at the Movies

photo by _StaR_DusT_ Do you want to feel that rush of first love again? Do you want to feel the tingle of a junior high crush? Do you want to “extend foreplay” like all the sexperts tell you to but you keep running out of things to do? Do you want to go on a […]

Personal Essays
Confession: Holy Rolling Hotties

photo by kevindooley Our contributor Lisa DiCarlucci, a journalism student at Hofstra, has a confession to make: I’ve been going to church every week for as long as I can remember. For 12 years, I was a proud, plaid-skirt-and-knee-sock-wearing Catholic school girl. And I’ve always felt I’m a pretty good Catholic…well, minus the whole purity […]

Dear Em & Lo
Dear Em & Lo: My Girlfriend Always Cries After Sex

photo by -stamina- Dear Em & Lo, I’ve been in a serious, committed relationship with a gorgeous woman for almost a year. We first met as friends and then somehow found ourselves being more than friends after 9 months or so. During that time, we learned much about what makes the other tick. We have […]

Do It Tonight
Do It Tonight! Leave Something On. Just Not Your Socks.

photo via bobster1985 Total nudity is not always a prerequisite for great sex: leftover clothes give the sex a sense of urgency and spontaneity, like you wanted each other so badly that there was simply no time to brush your teeth, disrobe, and get under the covers. Or like you’re doing it outside and you’ve […]

Websites
Dating on Craigslist Is a Crap Shoot

Oh man, we hope this Portland, Oregon Craigslist Missed Connections post is real, not only because it’s hilarious, but because this guy has got to be the coolest, most understanding man on the face of the planet and he deserves love, if not from the shitter in question, then from someone in more control of […]

Personal Essays
25 Things You Probably Didn’t Need to Know About Em & Lo

Unless you’ve been living under a rock you’ve probably noticed that everyone and their mother is posting those “25 Things About Me” lists to their Facebook profiles. Yes, they’re an exercise in vanity, but we’re having a vain moment, so we thought we’d (over)share. 1. We met 10 years ago this month. It was BFF […]

Wise Guys
Wiseguys: Oral Vs. Intercourse

photo by TheBusyBrain Advice from three of our guy friends. This week they answer the following: “If guys had to choose between only intercourse or only blowjobs for the rest of their life, which do you think most guys would choose?” Straight Single Guy (L.A. Chris): I think most guys would choose blowjobs, but they […]