hg, I tried the Paragard (before I got the Mirena) and I had problems with long and heavy periods, which is a possible side effect of the Paragard. I had painful periods as a teenager and getting rid of that (posted to An Open Letter to the Pill from my Uterus)
Don't click on this...this exact same "comment" has been posted on sports blogs/articles about this item and is obviously spam or something more malevolent. (posted to The Long History of Objectifying Erin Andrews)
Amen. I was saying something similar this morning to a colleague, asking semi-rhetorically that when was it that we started paying most of the attention to the loudmouths and footstompers and screamers who don't want to learn/ask/discuss/problem solve but just (posted to Notes from a bitch...ponder the Not as Louds...)
There are some examples in Playboy where the airbrushing is so extensive (or poorly done?) that parts of a photo actually look like cartoons/drawn on! So putting Marge Simpson in there is just the unreality taken to its extreme conclusion. (posted to Sex and the Simpsons: Marge's <em>Playboy</em> cover)
Another amen here! Eloquent and on point...I will be quoting you :) In our culture, a male is considered to be a person primarily and a man secondarily, while a woman is a "woman" first and foremost, and exists to (posted to The trouble with "sexting" coverage )
I have never seen a woman who naturally looks like the women in mainstream porn. Yes, some women naturally have nearly invisible pores (I saw someone who had photoshop-like skin the other day). Yes, some women naturally have small-waists and (posted to Sex and the Simpsons: Marge's <em>Playboy</em> cover)
To further elaborate on that. "Hentai" translates to mean strange. Most of hentai is very odd performing sex acts that porn stars psychially can't. There are a small number of titles that are pretty animated versions of live-action porn films. (posted to Sex and the Simpsons: Marge's <em>Playboy</em> cover)
"With some policy making and problem-solving approaches, a sext can be transformed from a subject of moral panic to a sexual image that can't be distributed without the express consent of the sender." So you think it should be illegal (posted to The trouble with "sexting" coverage )
I have a long-standing theory after reading Solitary Sex: A Cultural History of Masturbation that practically every many new forms of media and genres end up triggering a moral panic. Novels, styles of dance, movies, comic books, jazz, rock music, (posted to The trouble with "sexting" coverage )