• The Shy Girl’s Guide to Gaining Confidence [Sexy Time]

    The Shy Girl’s Guide to Gaining Confidence [Sexy Time]

    Eventually, with time and concerted effort to change my thinking, I started to become more comfortable around dudes, thus increasing the frequency of sexy time occurrences.

  • No Kids, No Cares [Sex in the News]

    No Kids, No Cares [Sex in the News]

    New research from the Journal of Marriage and Family suggests that, despite the pressure your Great Aunt Mildred may be putting on you to reproduce, if you decide you simply don’t want kids you’ll turn out just fine!

  • Free Birth Control is Good for Society [Sex in the News]

    Free Birth Control is Good for Society [Sex in the News]

    Access to free birth control leads to low teen birth and abortion rates. After letting 9,000 mostly poor and/or uninsured women in the city choose what type of contraception they’d use if it were free, researchers found that women that have access to free contraception don’t get pregnant as often.

  • “Fifty Shades of Grey” Sex Toys, It Was Only A Matter of Time

    “Fifty Shades of Grey” Sex Toys, It Was Only A Matter of Time

    What happens when you cross erotic novels with main stream society? A hot mess of media coverage, a movie deal, and a lot of horny women.

  • STDs Are So Hot Right Now [Sexy Time]

    STDs Are So Hot Right Now [Sexy Time]

    The other day, my supervisor barreled into the office and proceeded to freak out about this article he’d read in the New Yorker about a new strain of gonorrhea that can’t be treated with antibiotics. He and my other boss – both of whom are married and ostensibly free from contracting STDs – were utterly appalled and proceeded to disparage people who have casual sex, and said they hope this news would teach the “floozies” a lesson.

  • 5 Foods That Set The Mood

    5 Foods That Set The Mood

    As a lover of all things yummy, I am all about foods to help people get in the mood for some sexy times. If nothing else, it’s an excuse to eat something delicious before you..well…eat something delicious. Okay, so that was a bad joke, but on a date – I’m going to make sure my guy orders something that will get him excited, so that we can go home and burn off all the calories.

  • California Bans “Gay-Repair” Therapy [Sex in the News]

    California Bans “Gay-Repair” Therapy [Sex in the News]

    Most mainstream mental health associations oppose “gay-curing” therapy, including the World Health Organization, which says the practice “lacks medical justification and represent a serious threat to the health and well-being” of patients.

  • Walk of Shame? As If. [Sexy Time]

    Walk of Shame? As If. [Sexy Time]

    There may come a time in your life when you wake up in a stranger’s bed, last night’s glittery eyeshadow caked on, hair in an untamed state and someone next to you who may or may not have been worth hooking up with. Before the hangover can set in, you decide that you need to vacate the premises immediately, because you have no interest in exchanging words.

  • Study Shows Women Speak Less Around Men [Sex in the News]

    Study Shows Women Speak Less Around Men [Sex in the News]

    Researchers from Princeton University and Brigham Young University found that women are less likely to speak up when outnumbered by men. They have found that women speak up to 75 percent less than their male counterparts. This is something that happens in collaborative group settings, when groups are working on a project and make a decision by majority rule.

  • Expectations vs. Reality: Friends with Benefits

    Expectations vs. Reality: Friends with Benefits

    The classic set-up: Friends with Benefits. So many great opportunities with this one! You get the best part of having a boyfriend (sex) without all the pesky relationship challenges like jealousy and who pays for dinner. In college, who has time for a relationship anyway?

  • Sex With a Fake Hymen [WTF Friday]

    Sex With a Fake Hymen [WTF Friday]

    So there’s this website HymenShop.com, not joking, where you can purchase an artificial hymen. But good news? Shipping is free.

  • 5 Guys We Won’t Go Home With [Friday Faves]

    5 Guys We Won’t Go Home With [Friday Faves]

    It’s a well-known fact that guys will go home with just about anything when they’re drunk. It’s not that they’re desperate, they’re just…well, guys. And guys like sex. So it’s not surprising that you don’t exactly have to be a genius/supermodel to have a special (or not-so-special) one-night engagement with a dude at the bar.

  • Want A Better Sex Life? Speak Up!

    Want A Better Sex Life? Speak Up!

    My inner monologue is usually along the lines of, “What…are…you…doing? I’m not a jack hammer. Stop that. Ew. That was a weird noise..etc.”

  • Kissing After Oral: Yay or Nay? [He Said/She Said]

    Kissing After Oral: Yay or Nay? [He Said/She Said]

    Oral sex protocol is a seriously opinion-dividing topic, and I totally get why. A lot of guys just don’t like the idea of going mouth to mouth with someone whose lips have just touched their junk, the same way loads of girls don’t want to get a taste of their own downstairs area.

  • Does Online Dating Make The First Date Feel More Important? [Ask A Dude]

    Does Online Dating Make The First Date Feel More Important? [Ask A Dude]

    I know a bunch of other girls who’ve ended up in relationships with guys online, but I think the problem for me is there seems to be a lot of pressure on the first date. It feels like you’re trying to imagine yourself in a relationship with him after spending all of 2 hours knowing him drinking at a bar. Why are people getting so relationship obsessed over one date? Are they or is this just something I keep feeling like I’m pressured to buy into?

  • Tuffy Luv Sez: One Little Lie Gets Big

    Tuffy Luv Sez: One Little Lie Gets Big

    When I first got together with my girlfriend, I told her I’d only slept with one other girl and one guy. When we first got together, I thought it would just be a short-term thing, because we’re in college and that’s what you do. Well it turns out she and I really love each other…