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Personal Essays
Confession: Rocking Around the Dickmas Tree

Our contributor Liz Nadybal, a recent Rutgers graduate who blogs at Hub City Brotel, has a confession to make: Here’s the dilemma: You amass a large number of condoms (thanks to your dear mom plying you with multi-packs every time she sees you), lube and penis whistles. You were supposed to hand them out on […]

Research
What Do Women Want? Yes.

Check out the NYTimes Magazine getting all hot & heavy with their article pics! That famous Freud quote “What do women want?” is just like the question “How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Roll Pop?” because the answer’s the same: “The world may never know.” That’s pretty […]

Wise Guys
Wise Guys: Do Men Ever Turn Down Casual Sex?

photo by vsqz Advice from three of our guy friends. This week they answer the following: Do guys ever turn down casual sex? To ask the guys your own question, click here. Straight Married Guy (Jamie): My own experience with casual sex is a bit limited.  I was always a “girlfriend guy” and it was […]

Polls
Poll: How Do You Wear Your Hair Down There?

<a href =”http://answers.polldaddy.com/poll/1316379/” >How do you wear your hair down there? </a> <br/> <span style=”font-size:9px;” mce_style=”font-size:9px;”> (<a href =”http://www.polldaddy.com”> polls</a>)</span>

Dream Interpretation
Dream Interpretation: I Keep Having Sex with My Fiancé's Brother

photo by MyLifeStory 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: I keep having these dreams about my fiancé’s brother, and now it’s really starting to scare me.  Here’s the basic […]

Do It Tonight
Do It Tonight! Give Your Partner a Love Bite

photo by P. Baker Yes, we’re talking about the good old-fashioned hickey — that simple little expression of unbridled passion that can immediately take you back to your first few heady times of making out (oh, to be young again!). Of course, the love bite should not be administered (or accepted) willy-nilly. Only the hidden […]

Websites
Our Top 10 Favorite Search Terms That Led People to EMandLO.com This Month

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Do It Tonight
Do It Tonight! Make Your One-Night Stand a Little Naughtier

photo by Aoife city womanchile Next time you take a beautiful stranger back to your place for a one-night stand, use the opportunity to experiment with acts that you consider out of character. (And no, we don’t mean letting them tie you up — remember, kids: don’t stare at the sun, don’t run with scissors, […]

Wise Guys
Wise Guys: What If I'm Not Up for Going Down?

photo by Jon & Alison Advice from three of our guy friends. This week they answer the following: “I really hate going down on guys. I’ve tried it, I don’t like it. In fact, I loathe it. I feel bad about it, but if I don’t expect oral in return (I don’t), then why should […]

Sexual Health
36th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade; End of Global Gag Rule…?

photo by Shht! Today marks the 36th year women have been legally allowed to make decisions about their own bodies, without (too much) interference from the government, despite continuous threats from religious and anti-choice extremists. According to NOW: Hateful legislation seeking to block our reproductive freedom continues to pour out of conservative state legislatures. Pharmacists […]

Websites
FAILblog, How Do We Love Thee…

Let us count the recent sex-related ways: Amusements Fail (above): When you have this kind of lighting malfunction, please, just pull the plug entirely. Parade Float Fail: Let’s hope they’re not handing out chocolate candies to the kiddies. Extra Fresh Fail: We think, we hope they were going for “spearmint.” Diva Gina Fail: If only […]

Dear Em & Lo
Dear Em & Lo: What's a Good My First Vibrator?

photo via funfactory.de Hi Em & Lo, I recently turned twenty and for a few months now have been curiously debating getting a vibrator.  Thanks to a fairly conservative upbringing, my experiences with sex, masturbation, and just about anything conceivably related are virtually nil, and I have no idea how to go about finding what […]

Confessions
Confession: Let's Park

photo by Adriano Agullo Our contributor Kristine deGuzman, a junior at UC Berkeley, has a confession to make: My boyfriend and I still live with our parents when we’re not at school. So when I drove up to see him on New Year’s Eve I wasn’t expecting anything sexy to happen. I’ve come to terms […]

Pop Culture
Top 10 Baby Names for Future Kids Conceived on Inauguration Day

photo by angela n. Aside from a few inevitable “Yeswecan”s and “Nodrama”s that will surely festoon a birth certificate or two, we imagine there will be a handful of more palatable monikers experiencing a surge on baby name lists come October 2009: Hope Bo Chance Change Victor/Victoria Sasha Malia Fey / Fae / Faye Joe […]

News
Sex Ed, Obama Style: We Can't Hardly Wait!

photo collage by Lew57 There are a million and one reasons we’re giddy with excitement that Obama takes office today, and here’s just one: We are so ready to kiss abstinence-only sex education goodbye. Or at least, the federal funding for it. We know there’s no guarantee that Obama will turn off the faucet on […]