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From romantic and sweet to kinky and naughty, check out these 7 erotic short stories the next time you're horny.

According to expert Carol Queen, PhD, here are the best sex toys and accessories to help you explore a latex fetish.

How can couples keep the spark alive in their relationships? Here's the research behind why going on dates is crucial to a marriage.

Here are the best flavored lube options to use when giving or receiving oral sex like blowjobs or cunnilingus.

Whether you're looking for a casual kinky sex toy or a more extreme BDSM sex toy, here are the best sex toys to shop — including bondage sex toys.

Chronic "cheaters" share surprising traits. They tend to: Prefer rock music, know the person with whom they cheat (often at work), get "friskier" when they're cheating, but want to get caught. Men cheat to "fix" or keep their marriage. Women cheat when it's likely over.

Amanda Chatel is a lifestyle writer covering sexual wellness and relationships. Her work has been featured in Shape, Glamour, Harper's Bazaar, The Atlantic, Forbes, Mic, Men's Health, and Bustle, where she was a lifestyle writer for seven years. When Amanda isn't writing, she can be found bouncing around the globe in search of pizza that's at least comparable to Lil' Frankie's in NYC. So far, she's come up empty-handed. Amanda divides her time between NYC and B...

"You being a stand up guy has nothing to do with you having to cover someone elses tab," one commenter asserted.

Credit: Getty Images / Design by Alex Sandoval Unless youre a member of the kink community, the term and even the concept of a "safe word," might be out of your jurisdiction. Of course, theres the possibility that you may have picked up the phrase and meaning in Fifty Shades of Grey — something my mother so kindly pointed out when she proudly told me she knew what a safe word is. Thanks, mom! But for the uninitiate...

Credit: Alex Sandoval When I was admitted to the hospital recently after a fall that resulted in a broken leg and two sprained ankles, I had to retell the story of the fall to several people who kept coming in and out of the room. In the midst of doing so, they also asked what I did for a living, where I lived, and, scarily enough, whether or not I have a living will — apparently something we should all have but was ...