Blog Posts by Em and Lo

The Olympics are such a noble event symbolic of international peace and camaraderie, that to bring sex into The Games would be a tactless move, expressing an outright distaste of taste. So....let the tactlessness begin!

• Apparently, lots of sweating, increased heart rates, and aerobic activity doesn't just happen at the official events, but also in the Olympic Village -- one person calls it "an adult Disney World."

• But in China, the Olympic Village is kind of a drag when it comes to hooking up.

• Though there are no gift bags full of condoms, as in previous Olympics, the Chinese are providing some free condoms to athletes, a tradition since 1992.

• Before the Games began, advertisements featuring stick-man athletes using condoms as apparatus in Olympic events became a viral sensation in China.

• Um, somehow we missed this in Athens, but bikini-clad cheerleaders for Olympic volleyball competitions just really cheapens the

Our intern Kristine deGuzman, a junior at UC Berkeley, says she feels like she spent her entire summer discussing birth control and safer sex with her friends. "I guess that's what happens when half of your friends used to be avid churchgoers."

I grew up in a conservative Catholic environment for the great bulk of my existence, all the way from Kindergarten to my senior year in high school. I learned the exact opposite of safe sex--I learned that birth control would kill me, condoms would fail and I would get pregnant, and that abstinence was the only way to save me from the wickedness of sex and the deadly effects of birth control. It seems like, of all my friends, I should be the one with the mental handicap concerning sexual matters. I mean, I had to look up "how to do a ----- " halfway through my freshman year in college. Seriously, I did that.

Yet somehow I've become the sex guru among my friends, and I can't believe how many times I've had to tell them, "No, birth control pills

There's no red carpet, or worst dressed, or canned presenter banter, or melodramatic acceptance speeches. But there may just be orgasms for you in it, which automatically makes the Sex Toy Awards way better than the Oscars (unless you're a really, rilly big George Clooney fan). Sex toy retailer LoveHoney.co.uk teamed up with Company magazine and picked 20 real women to road-test ten top-rated toys that hit the market in the last year and pick the best of the bunch. Here are the winners (one of which we think is a real loser) and their U.S. equivalents:

OVERALL WINNER: The Delight
It's by our fave manufactory, Fun Factory, natch. We agree, you can't get closer to perfection than this. Available at Babeland and most decent U.S. sex toy retailers.

[Video: Claire from Babeland helps you find the perfect vibrator that's right for you!]

BEST FOR ORGASMS: Jessica Rabbit 2.0
This is a LoveHoney original, so if you don't want to ship in from England, go for Vibratex's Elastomer Rabbit habit

There's no red carpet, or worst dressed, or canned presenter banter, or melodramatic acceptance speeches. But there may just be orgasms for you in it, which automatically makes the Sex Toy Awards way better than the Oscars (unless you're a really, rilly big George Clooney fan). Sex toy retailer LoveHoney.co.uk teamed up with Company magazine and picked 20 real women to road-test ten top-rated toys that hit the market in the last year and pick the best of the bunch. Here are the winners (one of which we think is a real loser) and their U.S. equivalents:

OVERALL WINNER: The Delight
It's by our fave manufactory, Fun Factory, natch. We agree, you can't get closer to perfection than this. Available at Babeland and most decent U.S. sex toy retailers.

[Video: Claire from Babeland helps you find the perfect vibrator that's right for you!]

BEST FOR ORGASMS: Jessica Rabbit 2.0
This is a LoveHoney original, so if you don't want to ship in from England, go for Vibratex's Elastomer Rabbit habit

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Very rarely are other people's dreams interesting...except when they're about sex. Dream analyst Lauri Loewenberg tackles the case of lesbian sex in a straight woman's nocturnal visions. Research has shown women's sexuality to be less black and white than men's, but is assuming she's got a little gay in her jumping to conclusions? Find out after the jump (right after you send us your own dreams!):

Ever since I started having sex, I have always enjoyed it with a man. But lately I have found myself dreaming about doing it with a girl. I can never make out her face, all I can see is us doing different things in different ways. What does this mean? Am I going crazy? Or is there something going on in my head?

Lauri Lowenberg: You might be going crazy...crazy for yourself! You see, an unknown female in a woman's dream often stands in for her own female qualities. Your dream lover is the embodiment of all that is feminine about you: your sensitivity, your creativity, your ability to nurture

We love anything that makes safer sex not only easier, but stylish. After our post last week on the pros and cons of the "safe sex" license (our quotation marks), a reader brought our attention to Mad BJ, an organization founded to help stop the spread of HIV and STDs by offering funky safer sex kits under the name "Ready two Go." Each kit comes with a tin for safe storage and easy toting, one or two Lifestyles condoms, a little container of lube, and an STD information card (it's got "how to put on a condom," CDC numbers, a few statistics with a referral back to the website for more info and legal disclaimers--all in both English and Spanish). There's a whole slew of different style tins to choose from, all pretty cool-looking, some without the brand "Mad BJ" on it (thank god), and some special editions designed by artists like Ramones drummer Marky Ramone. And the best part: while they often work with organizations, you can buy your own kit online for less than five bucks! Refresher

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...And other totally mean thoughts that we had over IM this morning. Don't hate us, please.

EM: Did you hear that one of Edwards's responses to the affair was "My wife was in remission at the time"?!!
LO: Yes, so lame.
EM: That obviously didn't make the poll below: "Well, she wasn't dying of cancer at the time, so what's the biggie?"
LO: Although, I must admit I was tempted to add the option "That's what happens when you don't marry within your beauty bracket." Not that I believe that, but you know some people are thinking it! So wrong.
EM: It's like Clive Owen and his missus.
LO: I have a guy friend who's pretty good looking--in good shape, tall, chiseled features--who gets upset when he sees really good-looking women with guys who aren't so easy on the eyes because he thinks it upsets the equilibrium of the dating pool.
EM: Like Cate Blanchett and hubby. I think it's kind of sweet, though--I always assume it's true love when the beauty gap is so wide.
LO: I think the assumption is