Your Brain on Porn
photo via Flickr There has always been great debate between sex-positive free-speech porn advocates and anti-porn chicken-little moralists. We’ve always fallen somewhere in the middle: you can’t really...
View ArticleAbortion Foes Seek to Redefine Personhood
photo via Flickr If anti-abortion activists thought that redefining the laws of gravity would help their cause, they wouldn’t let a little scientific evidence get in their way. And the latest campaign...
View ArticleGive Us an I! Give us a U! Give us a D!
illus. of Paraguard IUD via Med.unc.edu Move over, Pill! According to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), the IUD is a whole lot more effective — and safer than was...
View ArticleIt’s Official: Your Insurance Provider Now Has to Cover Your Contraceptives
We reported last week that a leading U.S. medical advisory panel recommended that all insurers be required to cover contraceptives for women free of charge. Well, guess what? The Obama administration...
View ArticleWhat Do We Want? An Affordable, Non-Hormonal, Long-Lasting Contraception...
When do we want it? Now! Of course, these kind of things take time and money. And if these things don’t fit the Big Pharma money-making model (take a pill, day after day, year after year, and keep...
View ArticleNaked News: The HPV Edition
poster via NCCC-online.org We’ve been writing about sex and sexual health for more than a decade, and HPV still makes our heads swim. It’s such a complicated subject — complicated further by the...
View ArticleDoctor Claims He’s Located the G-Spot
photo via flickr Yes, Virginia, there is a G-spot, and one doctor in Poland claims he’s located it — and he says it’s tiny, less then one centimeter across. But other G-spot experts are not so sure of...
View ArticleSad with Shitty Insurance? Try Online Group Therapy
Ever feel like you could benefit from a therapist but you don’t have the cash or you can’t travel to sessions or you just don’t wan to make the commitment? Now the magic Internet is bringing the...
View ArticleGerman Court Rules Circumcision a “Bodily Harm”
photo via flickr This week a court in Germany ruled that circumcising boys for religious reasons is “bodily harm.” The ruling came as a result of a court case about medical complications following the...
View Article5 Reasons Why More Sex Helps Your Career
LELO created this fun infographic (included below), which could be more simply titled “5 Reasons Why More Sex Helps Your LIFE.” A few thoughts on each point: Honestly, in this recession, we think most...
View ArticleWhat We Talk About When We Talk About Angelina Jolie’s Boobs
photo via Flickr Angelina Jolie wrote an op ed in the New York Times today about her decision to have a preventive double mastectomy in order to greatly reduce her risk of breast cancer, which she had...
View ArticleSex After Miscarriage & Stillbirth
Reconceiving Loss is a new online resource for people coping with losing a pregnancy or an infant. There are articles on health and wellbeing, yoga and meditation suggestions, and opportunities for...
View ArticleWhat Is the C-Spot?
This is the final part of our series on Top Body “Spots” that any self-respecting, shall we say, “anatomy enthusiast” should be familiar with. Even if this is old news to you, it’s always a good idea...
View ArticleTeen Sex? Planned Parenthood Has an App for That
Actually, make that nine apps. Planned Parenthood knows better than anyone that most teenagers in this country don’t get the sex ed they need. Some schools continue to preach abstinence-only...
View ArticleEMandLO.com Ranked 6TH in STDcheck.com’s Top 100 Love Blogs!
sponsored post In 2012, GetSTDtested.com released their list of the Top 100 Sex&Love&Dating Blogs, and our little ol’ humble home site EMandLO.com not only made the top 10, we were ranked...
View ArticleApril Is STI Awareness Month – Want Some Free Condoms?!?
sponsored post Prepare to have your mind blown by these stats (and check out the infographic below): There are 65 million people in the U.S. who are living with an incurable STI Each year, STIs lead...
View ArticleEMandLO.com Is Giving Away Free Trojan Condoms!
sponsored post In honor of STI Awareness Month, we’ve teamed up with Trojan to offer one lucky person: 2 10-count boxes of Trojan’s NEW Double Ecstasy Condoms 1 Midnight Collection package (1...
View Article5 STDs You Should Worry About More Than Ebola
photo via flickr Yes, yes, yes, you should be very concerned about Ebola… if you’ve traveled to Liberia recently. (Or know someone who has.) But you should be very concerned about STDs… if you’ve had...
View ArticleSTIs Are on the Rise. You Can Thank Tinder.
by Amanda Chatel for YourTango | photo via flickr “Thanks to Grindr or Tinder, you can acquire chlamydia in five minutes.” When Grindr hit the online dating scene, it seemed too good to be true. An...
View ArticleThe Best (and Worst) Quotes from the 2015 Oscars
Speeches about equal pay for women and gay rights…equal opportunity objectification (thanks, Neil!)…straight men being sensitive and highly emotional about their mothers…more jokes about balls than...
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