Sex Toys
Toys
Screw the Chocolates, Get Me a Jimmyjane

Are you betting that your boyfriend is going to remember Valentine’s Day on Saturday morning and get you a last-minute, heart-shaped box of very unfair-trade chocolates from the mall? Then we recommend “accidentally” leaving this blog entry open on his laptop to steer him in the right direction. Or are you betting that your girlfriend […]

Toys
Purple Is the New Green

Tantus has always been one of our favorite sex toy manufacturers. They’re a small company with a big vision: make quality toys actually meant for use (i.e. not novelties) that are safe for your bod. (Get the whole spiel in the informational video on every product page, if you can stand that nice woman’s unfortunate […]

Dear Em & Lo
Dear Em & Lo: Help, My Boyfriend Got Intimate with His Travel Toothbrush!

photo by Joe M500 Dear Em and Lo, I have recently gotten my boyfriend interested in anal play (namely his, not mine) and while I think this is a good way to further explore different opportunities for pleasure, he seems to have gone about it in the wrong way. After experimenting with fingers with no […]

Personal Essays
Confession: Rocking Around the Dickmas Tree

Our contributor Liz Nadybal, a recent Rutgers graduate who blogs at Hub City Brotel, has a confession to make: Here’s the dilemma: You amass a large number of condoms (thanks to your dear mom plying you with multi-packs every time she sees you), lube and penis whistles. You were supposed to hand them out on […]

Dear Em & Lo
Dear Em & Lo: What's a Good My First Vibrator?

photo via funfactory.de Hi Em & Lo, I recently turned twenty and for a few months now have been curiously debating getting a vibrator.  Thanks to a fairly conservative upbringing, my experiences with sex, masturbation, and just about anything conceivably related are virtually nil, and I have no idea how to go about finding what […]

Toys
Rejoice, Sex Toy Sales Are Recession Proof!

photo by Guido Alvarez We couldn’t be happier to learn that the recession is apparently not impacting sex toy sales. Turns out women would rather wear last year’s jeans and use this year’s vibrator to get to their happy place. Sanity, at last! For years we’ve been telling women that it’s toad-licking crazy to spend […]

Toys
The iPhone Officially Does EVERYTHING

Both being Mac disciples, we’re lucky enough to have iPhones (thankfully purchased before the recession kicked in). And we’ve quite enjoyed apps like Urbanspoon, Facebook, and Shazam (that shit is cool!). So we were checking out the most recent apps on the market (thanks to Gizmodo) and came across iHand Massage, “the first iPhone app to […]

Dear Em & Lo
Dear Em & Lo: How Great Should First-Time Sex with a New Partner Be?

photo by carulmare Dear Em and Lo, I was married for 20 years and now I am not. I’m not crying in my soup (is that the term?). I’ve learned a lot about what makes for a crappy relationship and bad sex. And, thanks in large part to your articles and website, I have gained […]