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Want to Win a Negotiation? Try a Family-Style Dinner (and These Other Offbeat Ways to Get What You Want)

Some seemingly counterintuitive methods could come in handy during your next hardball

How Fiji Water Became the Most Memed H20 on Earth

The Fiji fandom emerged from an online subculture known as vaporwave, which encompasses a soft aesthetic of chill electronica, surrealist glitch, ’80s- and ’90s-era tech, Japanese text and neon

What Do I Tell My Kids About That Racist Relative?

Advice from a chief diversity officer, a former racist and others

The 10 Most Intriguing Movies of 2019 (That Aren’t Based on Anything)

Adam Sandler getting serious. Brad Pitt going into outer space. No remakes, no sequels, no superhero movies.

The Skinny Guys Who Can’t Gain Weight No Matter What They Do

The Man Who’d Sell His Own Testicle, the Uncertain Fate of Tumblr’s Kink Community and Why We Get the Post-Holiday Blues

Talking Hoops With Sean Naismith, Great-Grandson of the Inventor of Basketball

You’re Using the Internet All Wrong and It’s Making You Depressed

What’s in This?: BenGay

Tumblr’s Banished NSFW Community Is Still Looking for a Safe Haven

Here’s Why You’re Extra-Bummed After the Holidays

The Guy Who Tried to Sell a Testicle for $35K Is as Ballsy as Ever

The Key to Aging Gracefully Is to Stop Worrying About Aging Gracefully

Why Guys Like Me Can’t Stop Eating Their Feelings

Shirtless Driving, Dating at the Cemetery and the Perils of Having Sex in Public

Can You Explain Superfoods to Me, an Average Guy Who Wants to Feel Super With the Minimum Amount of Effort?

A Gentleman’s Guide to Public Sex

The Ghosts of Best-Of Lists Past

Three Men on What It’s Like to Lose More Than 100 Pounds

Weed Is Too Damn Strong, So Now We’re All Too Damn High

The Real Reasons Movie Concessions Cost So Much

The Best Date Spot Is a Cemetery

The Hidden Financial Costs of Drinking

Driving Shirtless Is a Manly Dream That Will Never Die

Having a Messy Desk Makes Your Coworkers Think You’re a Dickbag

Ranking Vegetables by How Healthy They Are

Life Coaching > Therapy, Flexing Away Boners and Sex So Good Her Milk Runs

A Gentleman’s Guide to Not Losing Your Shit When You Get Laid Off

How to Stop One Bad Moment from Ruining Your Entire Day

Science Agrees: Flexing Any Muscle Can Get Rid of an Unwanted Boner

Lucid Dreaming Devotees Tell Us Their Wildest Sleep Stories

When Sex Is So Good It Makes You Lactate

Why We’re Still Weirded Out by Supportive Movie Husbands

Netflix Says ‘Bird Box’ Is a Big Hit. Why Should We Believe Them?

How the NBA Coach Became Just Another Bro on the Bench

Why Men Seek Out Life Coaching Instead of Therapy

Coming Out in 2019

In the Brave New World of Relaxation, You Have 1 Million Ways to Chill Out

Everything Your New Year’s Resolutions Will Do to Your Brain and Body: Reading More

Everything Your New Year’s Resolutions Will Do to Your Brain and Body: Getting Organized

Everything Your New Year’s Resolutions Will Do to Your Brain and Body: Getting the Most Out of Life

Everything Your New Year’s Resolutions Will Do to Your Brain and Body: Traveling More

Everything Your New Year’s Resolutions Will Do to Your Brain and Body: Spending Less and Saving More

Everything Your New Year’s Resolutions Will Do to Your Brain and Body: Getting Fit

People Who Never Break From Work on How to Shake Off the Holiday Rust

Moth Memes, YouTube Time Travelers and Foreskin Facials: It’s MEL’s 2018 Year in Review

Try to Get Through Our Best Vomit Stories Without Losing Lunch Yourself

Everything I’ve Learned From Writing About Booze, Bars and Drinking This Year

My Son Is 11, Gender Creative and Proud. Here’s What Fellow Parents Still Don’t Understand.

This Is How Happily Sober People Celebrate New Year’s Eve

Ranking Sparkling Wines by How (Un)Healthy They Are

Bringing Back Icing Has Made My Life a Lukewarm Hell Lined With Smirnoff Bottles

How I Told My Parents, Friends and Employer That I Have a Robot Fetish

What’s in This?: Hangover Prevention Pills

The Fake Strongmen of Instagram Have Only Gotten Bigger

Three Guys Who Stay Up All Night, Every Night

The Stupidest Questions We Asked Urologists This Year

‘How Do I Not Get Super Fucking Loaded on New Year’s Eve?’ —Me, an Average Guy Who Has a Tendency to Get Super Fucking Loaded on New Year’s Eve

The High Cost of Being a Black Entrepreneur in the Cannabis Industry

Coming Out As Trans Is Weird As Fuck When You Don’t Pass

All the Shit We Wrote About This Year

The MEL Team’s Favorite Stories From 2018

The Queen of the Bimbos Isn’t Nearly as Dumb as You Probably Think She Is

We Give the Best Oral (Histories) on the Internet

On the Front Lines of the Battle for Better Sex Ed

All the Times We Invited a Swirly in 2018

But Are Weed Strains REALLY Bullshit?

Our Best Art in 2018

The Bitcoin Moms Have Gone Bust

Ranking Everything We Ranked This Year

What It’s Like to Come Out as a Guy Who’s Going Through a Divorce

Our 25 Most Popular Pieces of the Year

I Wrote About ‘Hydro-Haters’ Who Don’t Drink Water — And Then I Found Out My Mom Is One

Every Type of Bro We Could Find This Year

The Unbelievably New and Novel Ways We Covered Dicks This Year

SoCal’s Most Famous Internet Shaman Made It Out of the Fire. Then Everything Changed.

My High School Teacher Was a Hero in Our Community. Years Ago, He Groomed Me for Sex.

Understanding the Men Who Are So 10 Years Ago

All the Movies MEL Wrote About in 2018, Ranked

The Ever-Growing Reality That We Might Be Able to Live Forever

The True-Crime Stories That Made Our Jaws Drop in 2018

I Can’t Stop Thinking About My Foreskin Facial

The 2018 MEL Movie Awards: All the Rankings You Won’t Read Anywhere Else

The Stupidest Questions We Asked Nutritionists This Year

Fentanyl Is Exploding — And Heroin Addicts Are Becoming Reliant on a Nasal Spray to Reverse ODs

What It’s Really Like to Come Out as a Sex Worker

How Grown Men Talk to Their Moms About Sex, Race and #MeToo

Everything We Wrestled With in 2018

The Sorry, Misbegotten State of the Alpha Male

All of the Plastic Surgery Men Had Done This Year

20 Years Ago, ‘The Thin Red Line’ Brought Vulnerability to the Hyper-Masculine War Genre

The Best Original Features You Missed When You Weren’t Following MEL

The Only Memes Worth Sharing in 2018

There’s Drama Brewing in the World of Paranormal YouTube

Coming Out as Gay Was Nothing Like Coming Out as On Steroids

Pieces of Advice We Got This Year That We Haven’t Been Able to Shake

I’m Not Ready to Laugh About the Bush Years

The State of the Male Gaze

There’s No More Perfect Capricorn Than Jesus

23 Things I Learned About Christmas (and You Should Know, Too) Just From Reading This Site