Holidays
Wise Guys
When It’s Okay to Invite a Guy Home for Thanksgiving

One of our favorite Thanksgiving movies, Pieces of April  Advice from three of our guy friends. This week they answer the following: “When will a guy feel comfortable being invited to his partner’s family’s place for Thanksgiving?” To ask the guys your own question, click here. Gay Single Guy (Daniel): Each guy is different with […]

Dear Em & Lo
Your Call: Do I HAVE to Go to My Partner’s Family Thanksgiving?

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 on the letter below by leaving your advice in the comments section.  Hi, My boyfriend of eight months invited me […]

Special Issues
The Thanksgiving Issue: Love in the Time of Turkey

Wise Guys: How to Win Over His Mother at Thanksgiving Don’t miss Joel Derner’s fail-safe technique for winning over mothers at the holidays! Wise Guys – When Can I Invite Him for Thanksgiving? Sage advice from three men who like turkey. 10 Ways to Win Over Your Partner’s Parents This Thanksgiving “Engage in no more […]

News
Vote Today!

No excuses! On this day — today, Election Day, Tuesday, November 4th, 2014 — you’ve got to get out and vote to, among other things, protect women’s rights, including access to birth control, safe abortions, good sex ed, and equal pay for equal work. Even if it doesn’t seem like there’s any difference between Republicans and […]

Special Issues
The Halloween Issue

The 10 Sexiest Scary Movies Horrifying and hot. The 10 Most Romantic “Monster” Movies Love can be scary. How to Have Sex with a Vampire A top 10 for all you Twilight fans. Are Halloween Couples’ Costumes Cute or Cloying? What do you think? Let us know! Halloween Haiku Contest Winners please, babe? just the tip? / he […]

Dear Em & Lo
Your Call: Can He Skip the Couples Costume This Halloween?

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.   Dear Em & Lo, My girlfriend wants to do a couple’s costume for Halloween this year. I don’t. I think it’s cheesy […]

Horoscopes
Your Halloween Horoscopes: 10-27-14

photo via Flickr Each week, we at EMandLO.com predict the course of your love life for the week with our own version of irreverent horoscopes — ignore our advice at your own peril. (Hyperbole intended for dramatic effect.) aries (Mar. 21st-Apr. 20th) What’s the hurry? Take your time and get to know a potential partner […]

Pop Culture
Photos of the Week: Sexy Shadowy Ghosts from Getty

When you do a search on Getty Images for “halloween sex,” you get a lot of cheesy cosplay stuff. You also get a lot of cool silhouettes behind glass that call to mind — somewhat disturbingly — ghosts, orgasms, and the “Psycho” shower scene. And what’s interesting is, they’re taken by several different photographers, not […]

Pop Culture
Dads Suffer Too: Helping Bereaved Fathers Cope with Loss

Tara Shafer is the founder of ReconceivingLoss.com, a site dedicated to helping parents cope with pregnancy and infant loss, especially through story sharing. The German poet Friedrich Ruckert once wrote: “O you, refuge of your father/light of joy/extinguished all too soon” in reference to the death of his child. Following the stillbirth of our son […]

Toys
10 Father’s Day Gifts That Have Nothing to Do with the Barbecue

Crosley Portable Turntable Yeah, yeah, we get it: Dad likes to barbecue meaty things. But did it ever occur to you that maybe Dad likes sensual massage or a little butt play, too? Okay, so these aren’t necessarily the gifts that you’d give to your own father, but for the father of your own children? […]

News
LAST CHANCE to Win a Tess & James Feel-Good Package for Mother’s Day!

sponsored post Your odds of winning this Mother’s Day Feel Good Package made especially for EMandLO.com readers by Tess & James — a new, small batch production company specializing in feel good products made from ingredients that are gentle on the skin, nice to your nose, and free of artificial colors, artificial flavors and preservatives — are ridonkulous! But […]

Toys
Win a Mother’s Day Feel-Good Package from Tess & James!

sponsored post Tess & James is a new, small batch production company specializing in feel good products made from ingredients that are gentle on the skin, nice to your nose, and free of artificial colors, artificial flavors and preservatives. They believe that taking time to care for yourself enables you to give lovingly to others. So Tess & […]

Pop Culture
Moms Are Kinky People Too!

Lelo’s Etherea Silk Cuffs Mother’s Day is just around the corner! Sure, you could get her some nice flowers…again. Or you could get her something she’ll really enjoy: our new book, 150 SHADES OF PLAY: A Beginner’s Guide to Kink! Hear us out: Moms loved the Twilight series, but secretly wished there was more sex […]

Toys
11 Sensual Gifts for May 11th (Mother’s Day)

Flowers are okay. But moms like other stuff too: soft stuff, scented stuff, stress-relieving stuff, sexy stuff. Okay, so maybe you don’t want to get your Mom (or the mother of your children) a big ol’ dildo for Mother’s Day. But let’s try to think outside the vase. The only kind of flower she might […]

Toys
Is LELO’s 1st Ever Right-Handed Vibrator For Reals?

Nope! It was just another in a long line of clever Internet April Fool’s jokes yesterday. Last year, our favorite pleasure object creators — LELO — “put out” the world’s first Ikea-style sex toy called GÄSM; and this year they “invented” a squeezable vibrating object called DEXTRÜS that was supposed to allow right-handed people to tap into […]

Special Issues
The Valentine’s Day Issue

The Best Valentine’s Day Present Ever! The top 10 reasons why our new book 150 Shades of Play makes the best Valentine’s Day present ever!   10 Easy Ways to Be More Romantic Romance is contagious. So the best way to get your partner to be more romantic is to be more romantic with them first. […]