Technology
Personal Essays
The Virgin Diaries – How Video Games Taught Me What Sexy Is

Our contributor Katherine Chen, who is a sophomore English major at Princeton University (check out her personal site here), is penning a series of confessions for EMandLO.com collectively called “The Virgin Diaries.” Here’s her fourth installment: From the moment I spotted her sitting on a shelf at a local Best Buy, I knew I wanted […]

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Can You Fix ChatRoulette's Penis Problem?

Earlier this week, we wrote about how the ChatRoulette improv piano guy almost makes you forget about all the purple throbbing genitals you were forced to weed through on your first and only foray into that weird world. (We’re still trying to decide which was more disturbing: Seeing a guy jerking off the first time […]

Toys
The World's First Sex Robot

photo by Crystl The AVN Adult Entertainment Expo was held in Vegas this past weekend, overlapping (not accidentally, one imagines) with the geek-fest Consumer Electronics Show. There were some areas of overlap, with sex booths showcasing 3-D porn, and a sort of “Wii for men” (a box attached to the johnson creates sensations that sync […]

Polls
Poll: Is Sexting Cheating?

This week in the comments section, Spes posed an excellent question, so we wanted to highlight it in case you missed it: Is secretly sexting (sexual texting) with someone other than your committed partner cheating?(trends) Can’t see the poll? Click here to take it.

Research
A Post-Coital Tweet Is the New Cigarette

A new study has found that 36% of people under the age of 35 Tweet, text, or check Facebook right after sex. For the over-35 group, that figure drops to only 8%. Are we totally giving away which side of the 35 dividing line we are located on when we say, Seriously, people? That’s really what you […]

Personal Essays
Confession: The Drawbacks of Long-Distance Dating

photo by mtkopone Our contributor Ryan, who blogs at Student Loans for Beer Money, has a confession to make: Most summers I look forward to an endless string of parties at which I usually get hammered and hook up with some stranger. I’m a 19-year-old guy — how else am I supposed to pass the […]

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Reproduction, Us Weekly-style: Celebrity Look-a-Like Sperm Donors

At the Cryobank sperm bank in (natch) L.A., you can select a donor based on which celebrity he resembles Online dating neophytes will sometimes get lured into a blind date with someone whose profile boasts that they bear a striking resemblance to, say, Robert Pattinson. It takes only one — okay, maybe two or three […]

Toys
Most Useless iPhone App Ever Claims to Rate Your Sex Life

Maybe we’re just jealous because we’re still trying to come up with an iPhone application that will make us millions while we sleep (why oh why did we not come up with iFart first?), but we think that the new Passion iPhone app that scores your boinks has about as much to do with good […]

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About Last Night’s Text…

photo by jlcwalker It’s official: TextsFromLastNight.com has replaced FAIL Blog as our new favorite site. Okay, so maybe that’s a little rash. But we’re at least prepared to call it a tie. We can’t believe that no one thought of doing this before. Tagline: “Remember that text you shouldn’t have sent last night? We do.” […]

Pop Culture
Anti-Domestic Violence Ad Changes When You Look At It

“It happens when nobody is looking” is the tag line for this award-winning Amnesty International PSA about domestic violence. Installed in a bus stop in Germany, it features an eye-tracking device so that when people look at it, the image morphs from a scene of domestic violence into a scene of domestic bliss. (The image […]

News
Anti-Domestic Violence Ad Changes When You Look At It

“It happens when nobody is looking” is the tag line for this award-winning Amnesty International PSA about domestic violence. Installed in a bus stop in Germany, it features an eye-tracking device so that when people look at it, the image morphs from a scene of domestic violence into a scene of domestic bliss. (The image […]

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Introducing Twitter Sex… Because Text Sex Is So 2008

photo by coreforce We have to admit, reading Violet Blue’s article on Twitter sex made us feel a little out of it. And, okay, a little old. We have a Twitter account because someone told us we should sign up, but we’ve never actually “Twittered” and we’re not sure we ever will. So we think […]

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Our Top 10 Favorite Search Terms That Led People to EMandLO.com This Month

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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 […]