I'm big enough to admit that some people other than myself write things that are clever or insightful on the interwebs. I hate them for it but goldernit I respect them. And just so you can keep your day nice and compact, here are some of my favorites from the last handful of days:

My friends Em & Lo (EmAndLo.com) have compiled a list of the worst shows to watch when you're getting your swerve on. I suppose it goes without saying that the show Dirty Jobs should have made the list… that's what she said.

Asylum must … Read More

There comes a time in almost all relationships when the plug gets pulled*. Sometimes it's the space between sitting down to the first your first appetizer and when the check comes, other times it's 45 minutes after packing your youngest child off to college. And, sometime later, in some particular order, the following takes place: denial, bargaining, anger, depression and acceptance. Read: The Real Reasons Men Break Up With Women

In the case of the first dinner that never made it to the movie (don't worry, the good guys win and everyone learns more about themselves in the end), this … Read More

Love Bytes: Twelve must-click sex, love and relationship links.

The curious and amazing history of birth control: Pessaries, cervix blockers and why "penis sheaths" didn't catch on. [Health.com]

Nice guys suck and will never get laid. [The Countess]

Work hard, play hard: Good sex improves work performance. [LimeLife]

Reflections on and a guide to checking out women. [Double X]

Like dry firewood meeting a flame, and other weird ways we talk about love the world over. [Asylum]

Strap-on sex won't turn your guy gay. … Read More

There has been a messy-mess of talk about virgins and abstinence over the past couple of years, much of it confusing. That gal sold her cherry in Nevada brothel for big bucks. Pregnant abstinence promoter Bristol Palin was dragged through the muck. The two camps in the sexual education debate have argued, and will continue to argue, about the merits of abstinence-only versus abstinence-recommended. The much lusted after Jo-Bros and some other Disney cats said they are saving it for marriage with their purity rings. A reporter had the temerity to ask college football … Read More

Our buddies Em & Lo (EmAndLo.com) have a great weekly column featuring dream interpretation. Even if you're not into dream interpretation, it's always worth a read. If you're like me, you rarely remember your dreams, so it's reading columns like this or watching The Cell. Anywhom, the dream read in question starts with an evil monkey (not dissimiliar to the one who lives in Chris Griffin's closet) and ends with secrets and lies. Very interesting read.

Next, former YourTango contributor Jessica Wakeman has a recurring bout of the blues. And not the regular blues like you get after seeing … Read More

Because it's awash in a sea of mediocrity, we sometimes forget that there are some good things on the interwebs. I've scoured the entire nets (it took a while) for the best of love and relationships today so you wouldn't have to. Here goes: 

Over at Lemondrop, our good friend standup comic Allison Castillo (pronounced "kast-ill-oh") is fed up with the term "cougar." The Courtney Cox fall television show Cougar Town isn't helping things. Hopefully, the Bill Lawrence-created (Spin City, Scrubs) sitcom will use the time-tested comedic technique of pointing out the painfully obvious and exaggerating it. Check out … Read More

The semi-Sapphic ménage a trois is supposed to be ultimate male fantasy*. But all is not as dandy as candy in "2 chicks at the same time" land-y.

I'd first heard of the downright anti-American idea that a girl-on-guy-on-girl could be anything other than legen-wait for it-dary in an old issue of Maxim (Read: 9 Things I Learned About Women From Editing Maxim). In an article debunking sexual fantasies, a writer said the reality of a threeway was having to hear, "are you finished yet?" in stereo. "But what did he know," I thought, "he's just some nerd writer … Read More

It's the end of the week and there have been some solid love and relationship posts on the webs this week. Here are some that you may have missed. Enjoy:

The lads over at Complex like some women who are large and in charge (also big, bad and bodacious). I never would have thought of Serena Williams as big. Muscular, yes. Powerful, sure. Sexy, youbetcha? Big, IDK. (Kudos to Complex for use of "big boneded," I thought I was the only one.) Plus: any thoughts on which kind of "complex" they mean? A bunch of buildings? A psychological obsession? Forget it, it's … Read More

We had a post, partially tongue in cheek*, entitled " My Computer Made Me Gay " some time ago. It got the old noodle churning (as in brain… I mean mind). 

The nature of sexual preference has been part of a running debate for a long time (funny that the word "preference" is used). The nature and nurture camps both make pretty strong arguments. That a "gay gene" hasn't been discovered is a feather in the cap of the nurture crowd (though we haven't found a hilarious gene or a dancing gene and some people are naturally funny ballerinas, … Read More

Have you ever been in public and a couple will just not stop making out? If they're lesbians at a Seattle Mariners game, you can have them removed. But anyone else (and if they're just making out, maybe with a little over the clothes groping) and you may just have to sit and take it.

Before we really explore Public Displays of Affection (and how they make some people's skin crawl), please please please check out this story from Em & Lo.

Yeah, crazy right? (It's like that scene in Mall Rats where Jason … Read More