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A Feminist in Fox’s Clothing? Megan Fox in the NYTimes Magazine

cover image from the Sunday NYTimes magazine We weren’t sure how or why the sex symbol with diarrhea of the mouth, Megan Fox, got an entire cover article dedicated to her in the New York Times Sunday magazine. Is she really such a cultural force? She’s been in like a whopping two movies (we’re counting […]

Celebrities
Twilight, Take Me Away!: Teen Vampires & Moms Who Love Them

photo by Paige Gabert Click here to read our article for New York magazine this week on area moms who take a bite out of the big Twilight apple. You can also read our “director’s cut” of the piece, which includes more quotes and info, after the jump:

Pop Culture
Rihanna’s Domestic Abuse Sells Albums — So What?

Rihanna’s album, “Rated R,” is — not coincidentally — on sale now Some people have been questioning Rihanna’s choice to wait to talk about her domestic abuse right until the release of her new album. Um, what? First of all, that’s just the way the magazine-TV-PR-celebrity-promotional circle jerk works: celebrities don’t tend to chat to magazine writers […]

Celebrities
CALLING ALL TWILIGHT-OBSESSED MOMS!

photo from Summit Entertainment We’re looking for women, specifically mothers, in the greater NYC area who have a secret or shameless obsession with Twilight — either the books or the movies or the whole Bella-Edward-Jacob industrial complex. We want to know why it’s so compelling, whether it’s a guilty pleasure, and how it’s affected your […]

Research
Naked News: Pot-Smoking Hippies & Tina Fey’s Cherry

photo via The U.S. National Archives I was going to have sex…and then I got high. New study shows that pot-smoking may cut a man’s sex life short. Speaking of pot-smoking hippies, a federal judge in San Francisco refused to dismiss a constitutional challenge to Proposition 8, ruling that a trial was required to resolve legal and factual […]

News
Naked News: The Devil in Marge Simpson

Two days left till Marge Simpson’s Playboy centerfold hits newsstands. Now we’re justing waiting for Stewie’s cover story in “The Advocate.” Support for civil unions up to 57%; support for same-sex marriage still only at 39%. But would a rose really smell as sweet if we gave it another name? It’s sad enough that there’s […]

Websites
Blog Snog (09-18-09)

photo via amanda_christine A weekly roundup of some of our favorite sex- and love-related posts from various blogs and websites: CollegeCandy is on Team Kanye, and only slightly ashamed to say it. We’re on Team Obama-Swift, and proud as hell to say it. Also, we’ll say this: Jackass! TresSugar lists the top 15 movies featuring cougars, including one […]

Vids
Green Porno’s Season Three Contest

This week, the Sundance Channel launched its third season of “Green Porno,” Isabella Rossellini’s wacky exploration of all the weird ways animals do it (this time around, there are more overt environmental messages throughout). To honor the show, we’re holding another contest where one lucky EMandLO.com reader will win an eco-friendly prize pack. It includes […]

Pop Culture
10 Things Dirty Dancing Taught Us About Love and Sex

photo by heine(ken) R.I.P. Patrick Swayze, star of Dirty Dancing. Thank you for giving us the gift of dance and romance that only teenagers with a very high tolerance for cheese and a low level of taste can appreciate (and quote from endlessly). We’ll never forget you. And we’ll never be put in a corner. […]

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Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis

Between Two Ferns With Zach Galifianakis from Between Two Ferns Zach Galifianakis is one of those weirdo comedians you either love or you hate. We love him, mostly for his entirely inappropriate sexual humor. So if you haven’t checked out his Funny or Die series, “Between Two Ferns”, we recommend you blow off work for […]

Pop Culture
Happy Birthday, Betty Dodson!

There isn’t better proof that an active, healthy, happy sex life keeps you looking young and vibrant than Betty Dodson, the great American sex educator who basically invented sex-positive feminism and almost single-handedly made masturbation okay for women. She turns 80 today — and she doesn’t look a day over 60! She’s in the process […]

News
Naked News (08-11-09)

photo by dougwoods Wondering what’s the 2009 equivalent of “the dog ate my homework”? It’s “the cat downloaded my child porn.” Seriously. In the you’ve-got-to-be-f&#*ing-kidding-us department: South Korea paints parking spaces pink to designate them for women in heels. Kathy Griffin continues to endear herself to us by bringing Levi Johnston as her date for […]

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Contest: Name That Schlong!

Which creature’s penis is the arrow pointing to? If you haven’t familiarized yourself with the awe-inspiring variety among various species’ penises, here’s your chance. Scroll through the “Grand Gallery of Penises” (all of which are featured in the “Why Vagina” episode of the second season of wacky Isabella Rossellini’s “Green Porno” series on SundanceChannel.com) to […]

News
Naked News (06-02-09)

photo by samie.shake News you can use: Research shows that history majors have the most active sex lives. Jerry Springer is secretly a pretty cool guy: he cries at chick flicks, he gets embarrassed on a daily basis, and his least favorite aspect of his appearance? “My mirror.” Our favorite Twitter of the week, courtesy […]

Polls
Poll: Is Idol's Adam Lambert Gay?

Is the frontrunner on “American Idol” Adam Lambert gay?(online surveys) Can’t see the poll? Click here to take it.

Pop Culture
Date Rape Is So Funny We Forgot to Laugh

We’re still not sure why Seth Rogen and Anna Faris are America’s comedic sweethearts. We loved Knocked Up just as much as the next guy, but haven’t the overweight stoner and dumb blonde jokes been done to death? Well, they are America’s comedic sweethearts, which we guess is why Warner Brothers, plenty of movie critics, […]