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Maybe Researchers Only Have Two Hands: About Evolutionary-Psychology Theories...

On the one hand they say men are "naturally" attracted to younger women. On the other hand they say men are "naturally" attracted to women with big boobs. On the third hand, however, almost all...

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The Nasty Little Secret About Male (Oh, and Female) Libido

The nasty thing about "male" or "female" libido is that individuals never have a "high" libido.  Nor do they have "low" one.  In fact individual people don't even have average libidos.  Not even the...

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"Do Men Know When They're In Love?" Seriously? On the Difference Between...

Yikes! Check out this week's "wise guys" question from (justifiably) anonymous Em & Lo reader Advice from three of EMandLO.com’s guy friends. This week they answer the following: “Do guys know when...

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Todd Akin, et al: In Other Words If She *Does* Get Pregnant It Wasn't Really...

See also my post from 2007: What the Hard-Core Anti-Choice Crowd Jacks Off to

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Mmm, Mmm Good! Ten Years Later Reporters *Still* Finding Gordon Gallup's...

Photo by Flickr user Trevor Coultart. Used under a Creative Commons license. So my heart sank when I read the headline at Medical Daily: How Oral Sex or Having Sex Without a Condom Can Be Good For...

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It's Worse Than You think: For Tom Smith and His Ilk There's No Difference...

Speaking about his own daughter's unplanned, unwanted pregnancy Tom Smith is generally considered to have equated the serious matter of criminal sexual assault with unwed pregnancy. Believe it or not,...

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Thanks to Intention and Result, Male and Female Circumcision are Both...

Photo by Flickr user DJOtaku. Used under a Creative Commons license. Tumblr blogger STFU Fauxfeminists passes along the following comment following a series of posts about penile circumcision. I'm...

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Em & Lo's Excellent Student-Mixer Cocktail-Hour Advice About Sex and (Degrees...

Photo by Flickr user DoctorWho. Used under a Creative Commons license. Drinking and sex in College? I'm not a big fan of alcohol and sex. (And not just because I've got a faulty gene that keeps me...

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Self-Defeating Self-Motivation: Pledging Not to Shave, Cut Your Hair, or...

Photo by Flickr user craighamnett. Used under a Creative Commons license. That is all.

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Rest in Peace Shulamith Firestone

Cropped image from TheAtlanticWire.com. I was sorry to hear Shulamith Firestone, author in 1968 1970 of The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution, passed away late last week. Her book is,...

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If I Wrote a Book Imagining Men's Penis/Brain/Self Identity I Would Be...

So where does Naomi Wolf get off thinking she can write a correspondingly bogus book claiming vaginas are distal lobes of women's brains? This is not a "what about the menz" question, incidentally....

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An Illustrated Guide to the NiceGuy™ Loses to Bad Boy Myth

Image from George Takei's Facebook page." In his accompanying text, George Takei asked "Who's been there or done that?*" Short answer, of course, would be me! And about eleventy-million other guys who...

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Addendum: The Biggest Cause of the Nice Guys Lose to Bad Boys Myth is That...

Quick followup on my previous post, An Illustrated Guide to the NiceGuy™ Loses to Bad Boy Myth   The problem is that even many of the worst "bad boys" think of themselves as "nice guys."   Thus the...

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Talk About Burying the Lede! Researchers Show When it Comes to Gross Outs and...

The breathless headline (probably not written by Wired UK science writerLiat Clark) says "Sexual Arousal May Help Women Ignore the Yuck Factor." Really! Wow, yeah, I mean we all know women are so...

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Wowzie! Google Analytics Says "1,270,462 people visited this site" Since late...

Screen shot of Google Analytics for Realadultsex.com, Oct-2008-Sept-2012 Maybe I need to start taking this site a little more seriously again! That doesn't even include now-lost stats from the years...

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Who Benefits From the Myth That Men Can't Control Their Sexual Impulses?

Answer? Nobody. In a great post titled "The Myth of the Boner Werewolf," Cliff of The Pervocracy points out that excuses about "blue balls" and other (mythical!) forms of male uncontrollability make...

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Check Out PeacockAngel's Lovely, Loving Rejection of Anti-Feminist Hatred for...

Just stumbled across this awesome refutation of the bogus Two Rules of Desire and the entire array of social expectations that drives them.  It's by ThePeacockAngel on Tumblr. Have to repost the whole...

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In the Annals of Mocking Anti-Feminist Paranoia, Kaili Joy Gray's Single...

Image from Someecard.com. Used without permission though I doubt they care. I'd like to tell you that Rush Limbaugh is alone in his theory that his dick is small because of feminism. But alas, no....

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Scott Meyer Skewers the Standard Excuse: "You Can't Blame Me For Hitting on Her"

Basic Instructions comic by Scott Meyer. "You keep hitting on Athena." "You can't blame me for trying!"  "Sure I can, it's your fault.  She certainly hasn't encouraged it."  Nicely said. Update: For...

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Men as the "Sex Class:" "Not Particularly Choosy"

In a Huffington Post, err, post hypothesizing about (white? western?) men's fascination with women's breasts Larry Young and Brian Alexander reference the old sociobiology canard about men. Something...

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