photo via Flickr The case against and the case for Liz Lemon, a recent pop culture debate. This is the kind of thing we expect to see created by our favorite indie-arty liberal blogs, not by barackobabma.Tumblr.com — an Orwellian form that employers could have been filling out had the Blunt Amendment made it through last week. This president is so cool. […]
A little less than three weeks ago, we received the following letter of complaint. Our official response is posted below it: Dear Em & Lo, I want to express my disappointment in this website for not giving space to any of the major sex and sexual health-related news stories this week. While I visit your […]
photo via flickr Swing-state singles: Unmarried voters could decide the next election. (Hey, that’s one reason to celebrate being single on V-Day!) Harvard psychologist claims the data is in, and the world would be a more peaceful place if women were in charge. Whitney Houston: anatomy of a lesbian rumor. British Library anthologizes 2,000 years […]
photo via Flickr (real eggs, not prosthetics) In sci-fi news, scientists are working on a prosthetic testicle that creates and ejects human sperm for men missing one or both testicles who want to procreate. Yale Sex Week, once banned, is in full swing right now. Ron Paul says abortion is okay only when it’s an “honest rape,” you […]
photo via flickr Cynthia Nixon clarifies her controversial quote, explaining that she is gay “by choice” only because she is bisexual by nature. Heart patients get the go-ahead for sex… so long as it’s with their spouse. Study shows love makes people act out (no shit), judging other people of their own sex — […]
The Girl Scouts are standing by their transgender-inclusive policy despite a threatened boycott of Girl Scout cookies. Which sounds as good an excuse as any we’ve heard to over-indulge in Thin Mints this winter. Woman with two vaginas says the condition is not, actually, that rare — and also that it makes a great […]
photo via flickr A sci-fi themed brothel will open in Nevada soon. Apparently somebody there got the crazy idea that sci-fi nerds need a little help getting laid. Russell Brand might get $20 million in divorce from Katy Perry, thanks to California law. D’oh! California Gurl should have got herself a pre-nup. Trudie Styler says […]
As you may have noticed (we’re not exactly subtle on this point), we don’t buy the idea that men are from Mars, women are from Venus, and shuttles between the two are infrequent at best. We tend to think that women and men are a lot more alike than rumor (or headline) has it — […]
photo of DSK graffiti via Flickr It’s the most top-10-list time of year! And we’re not even going to try to resist its allure. 2011 was no stranger to sex scandals (is any year?). Most were political and/or not really all that surprising. And so, without further ado….(click on the link for a summary of […]
A man who donates his sperm to women and couples he meets online faces federal charges (a $100,000 fine or up to a year in prison) for not doing blood tests every time. CDC study shows that the HPV vaccine doesn’t make teens promiscuous. Yeah, we know: shocking. Fewer than half of U.S. adults are […]
photo via Flickr In “I Can’t Believe It’s Not a Joke” news, an Islamic cleric bans women from touching bananas and cucumbers to avoid them having sexual thoughts. Mint.com’s “page not available” page has a kinda funny personal ad. And the 2011 Bad Sex in Fiction Award goes to… We’re sure you’ve seen the leaked Lindsay Lohan Playboy […]
photo by Joe M500 Here’s something to LOL about: A new study shows that the teen sexting thing was — shocker — largely media hype, and that only 1% of kids age 10-17 have texted an explicit picture of themselves. And a million teens roll their eyes and say “We told you so.” Speaking of […]
photo via James Deen Blog Why porn that women actually like (i.e. with normal looking guys like James Dean, above) makes men so uncomfortable. You think you have a type when it comes to online dating, but according to researchers you actually don’t. The story of J. Edgar Hoover’s from someone who knows: the godson of […]
Study shows that female online gamers have — gasp! — more sex than women who don’t play games. Also, more than half of online gamers are women. (We’re assuming the researchers checked to make sure the respondents weren’t teen boys pretending to be sexed up women!) Readers criticize the New York Times for conflating “rape” and […]
It’s a favorite question of ours…okay, of mine (i.e. Lo’s). And my personal answer is that yes, there are differences, but not as many or as great as our culture likes to assume or presume. And that bias we have as a society actually influences the development of boys’ and girls’ brains (which are elastic) […]
photo via flickr No, seriously. We know this sounds like something straight out of The Onion, but a team of urologists in Brazil actually studied this. One theory on the connection is that sex with animals could cause micro-injuries to the penis, which are a well-recognized risk factor in the development of penile cancer. You’d […]
