Humor
Toys
Today (Fri) Is Your Last Chance to Win a Real LELO Accessory!

We’ll hand it to our sponsor LELO: they came up with a pretty subtle April Fool’s joke in the GÄSM. We mean, who wouldn’t want a cool looking, eco-friendly vibe with excellent customer service and anywhere recharge-ability? Maybe the “fact” that it’s made out of compressed wood pulp and old tires was a bit of a […]

Pop Culture
Top 10 Celebrity Sex Toy Endorsements

You know how major celebrities like Brad Pitt and George Clooney stoop to appear in advertisements overseas — especially in Asia — on the promise that the ads never show in the U.S.? They shill for everything from cars to booze in ads that look impossibly fake because we are shielded from them. Well, it […]

Pop Culture
G Is for Gimp

The following is from our very own naughty dictionary, 150 SHADES OF PLAY: A Beginner’s Guide to Kink. Bolded words signify individual entries that appear elsewhere in the A-to-Z section of the book. Anything with a tie icon  indicates an activity or prop mentioned in the Fifty Shades series (symbolic of the famous woven tie Christian Grey uses to restrain Anastasia Steele…and oh […]

Pop Culture
You’re More Attractive (to Twitter Users) If…

photo via flickr Sometimes the hash tags that trend on Twitter can make you hate humankind (#fatfilms this week, really, people? Are we back in junior high? What’s next, awards for “Most Outgoing” Twitter feed?!)… and sometimes they just make you want to reach out and hug someone. And sometimes they do both, as with this […]

Pop Culture
A Is for “Anastasia Steele”

The following is from our very own naughty dictionary, 150 SHADES OF PLAY: A Beginner’s Guide to Kink. Bolded words signify individual entries that appear elsewhere in the A-to-Z section of the book. Anything with a tie icon  indicates an activity or prop mentioned in the Fifty Shades series (symbolic of the famous woven tie Christian Grey uses to restrain Anastasia Steele). […]

How To
Anti-Advice: The Top 5 Tricks to Snag a Man

photo via Flickr Still single, ladies? Well you can kiss your cat-lady status goodbye! Follow these five simple dating tips and you’ll never be alone again! Because a douchey guy is better than no guy at all. Amen to that! Dress to impress. If you’ve got it, flaunt it. You can’t expect a man to […]

Pop Culture
Are You Smarter in Love Than an Eighth Grader?

We’re cynical biatches, so when someone told us about this eighth grade mash note that a teacher found on her classroom floor (see above), we figured there was a good chance it was faked in some way. But then we read it and we fell in love with the girl asking the question, “R u […]

Pop Culture
Top 10 Breakup Songs Taylor Swift SHOULD Write

 photo via WikiCommons Taylor Swift cannot write a bad pop song. She apparently can’t write a song about anything other than breakups, either. While we are shameless Swifties, we’d definitely like to see her branch out more — if not to different subject matter, then at least to some more honest, less PG-13 tales of […]

Pop Culture
Our Golden Globies

In honor of the Golden Globes last night, we — the Tina Fey and Amy Poehler of the sex writing world — decided to give out our own awards for the evening: Most Sensual Congratulatory Kiss Sally Field to Daniel Day Lewis (Best Actor for Lincoln). Her hands cradling his face and their slow gentle […]

How To
The Top 5 Writing Lessons of Fifty Shades of Grey

The biggest selling book of 2012 was Fifty Shades of Grey. Not only has it introduced many people to the world of kink, it’s given them a lesson in how not to write. And if a lack of literary merit isn’t going to slow down sales, well, at least people can learn about the elements […]

Pop Culture
The 12 Days of Kinkmas

In honor of the holidays and the recent publication of our new book, 150 SHADES OF PLAY: A Beginner’s Guide to Kink, we wanted to put our own special sexy sacrilegious spin on a Xmas classic. Enjoy: On the 12th Day of Kinkmas my true sub gave to me… 12 Crops a Cracking Disciplinary devices […]

Vids
Bar Refaeli Wants to Kickstart Her Sex Tape

Sure, you could send ten bucks to your neighbor who wants to make a business out of her macrame bondage gear… or you could just fund “aspiring model and actress” Bar Refaeli’s sex tape. Remember the nineties, when a sex tape was a good way to launch a career? These days it’s all about making […]

Toys
And the LELO for the Best Self-Love Haiku Goes To…

Thank you for all your inspired entries in our Self Love Haiku Contest. Rabbit imagery seemed to be a big theme, which makes sense considering the prize up for grabs is a Rabbit-style vibe (one that’s waterproof, body-safe, powerful and quiet). And there were a lot of hilarious haikus that tickled our funny bones (which […]

Toys
Top 10 Haikus About Self-Love (A Contest!)

***THIS CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED*** We guess we should really title this post “Top 10 Haikus About Self Love That Em and Lo Just Came Up With.” We figured it’s a Friday, so what better time to celebrate the wonders of onanism!  In honor of this joyous occasion, we’d like to give away one INA 2 […]