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Confessions
Comments of the Week: What’s Good for the Goose Is Good for the Gander

photo via Flickr We wouldn’t want you to think EMandLO.com is anally fixated or anything, we just really appreciate the whole “what’s good for the goose is good for the gander” argument when it comes to defending straight men being receptive to a little backdoor love. Hence, the second comment of the week in a […]

Confessions
Comment of the Week: Strap-Ons Can Bring a Couple Closer

a Starter Strap-on Kit SJM, responding to the post  “Confession: I Want to Do My Boyfriend with a Strap-On“: This is something that will make a relationship grow. Plain sex gets old. It took me forever to open up to my gf about how I wanted her to [“plug”] me, or whatever. But when she […]

Dear Em & Lo
Your Call: Is Backdoor Play Gay?

We get a lot of advice questions coming in at EMandLO.com, but sadly, we just can’t answer them all. Which is why, once a week, we turn to you to decide how best to advise a reader. Make your call by leaving your response in the comments section below. For a while now my girlfriend and I have been […]

News
Raleigh Baptist Church Holds Out for Gay Marriage in North Carolina

photo via flickr A few years back we went on a cross-country road trip to promote our first book, The Big Bang. We knew that we’d find dirty minds (i.e. eager book buyers) in places like San Francisco and Portland, but we couldn’t believe how kinky things got in Raleigh, NC! One guy asked us […]

News
The Forward Momentum of Gay Rights

We mentioned a recent Pew Research Center survey earlier this week (in Naked News) that shows how public acceptance of same-sex marriage has grown in the past two years, jumping by 9 percentage points, making the country now evenly divided on the issue, with 46% in support legalization and 44% opposed. While reading up on the topic, […]

Wise Guys
Wise Guys: What’s the Appeal of Girl-on-Girl Action?

photo by marcogomes Advice from three of EMandLO.com’s guy friends. This week they answer the following: “What’s up with straight guys’ almost universal fascination with girl-on-girl action?” To ask the guys your own question, click here. Straight Committed Guy (Johnny): Other than the simple answer — it makes me and almost all other men pop a boner — perhaps […]

Dream Interpretation
Dream Interpretation: I Give Gay Sexual Favors to the Police

photo by conner395 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. Got a dream you want Lauri to analyze? Click here to submit it) This week, a male reader asks Lauri: I like to think I’m quite […]

Dream Interpretation
Dream Interpretation: Does My Lesbian Dream Mean I’m a Lesbian?

photo by marcogomes 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. Got a dream you want Lauri to analyze? Click here to submit it) This week, a reader asks Lauri: I had a dream that I was […]

Dream Interpretation
Lauri Interprets Newly Out Country Singer Chely Wright’s Dream

photo by GregInHollywood If you’re a country music fan, odds are, you know Chely Wright. If you’re not, then you probably know Chely Wright as “that country singer who went out on Oprah.” (She’s pictured above.) These days when a celebrity comes out, it’s well… meh. That wasn’t the case when Chely came out because […]

News
Wedding Photos from NY’s 1st Day of Legal Gay Marriage

Our photographer friend David Jacobs (he took our deceptively flattering bio pic) was hired by Human Rights Campaign, the gay rights organization, to document New York’s first day of legal gay marriage this past Monday at Manhattan’s City Hall. HRC will soon have more on their site, but for now here’s a round-up of the […]

Pop Culture
DC Comics Introduces Gay Characters

We’re not comics fans. But even we know DC Comics. So now that they’re introducing a bunch of gay characters this fall, it’ll be nice for us to finally have a serious counter-point to SNL’s Ambiguously Gay Duo. Read the rest of this post on SUNfiltered

Wise Guys
Wise Guys: Should I Be Threatened by My Girlfriend’s Gay Male Bedmate?

photo by aralbalkan Advice from three of our guy friends. This week a straight man asks, “A girl I am dating has a gay best friend. He is coming to stay with her for a few weeks and they are sharing the same bed. While I know he is definitely gay, it still makes me […]

Dear Em & Lo
Your Call: When Should I Tell Men About My Lesbian Past?

photo by Sexy Fitsum We get a lot of advice questions coming in at EMandLO.com, but sadly, we just can’t answer them all. Which is why, once a week, we turn to you to decide how best to advise a reader. Make your call by leaving your advice in the comments section below: Dear Em […]

News
We Heart NY, Gay Marriage & The Empire State Building

One state at a time! Last Friday evening New York passed a marriage equality bill, allowing gay couples to finally legally marry in the state. Within hours the Empire State building was lit up in a rainbow of colors — woohoo! The pics of the building went Twitterrific all weekend. The most plausible explanation we’ve […]

Confessions
Comment of the Week: That Apocalypse Guy Says Pray Lovingly for Gays

Well, we’re still screwed: it turns out this past Saturday was just an invisible Judgment Day, with the destruction of the world now scheduled for October 21st, 2011, according to zealot Harold Camping. We recently heard from Johnny, a non-Christian who’s been a listener of Camping’s who had some insight into this whackjob’s views (for […]

Dear Em & Lo
Your Call: My Husband Wants Gay Sex

We get a lot of advice questions coming in at EMandLO.com, but sadly, we just can’t answer them all. Which is why, once a week, we turn to you to decide how best to advise a reader. Make your call by leaving your advice in the comments section below: Dear Em & Lo, My husband […]