Same. My mom grew up in Denmark where sex and sexuality is far more casually discussed, and both she and my dad are doctors which helped frame many conversations.

I had that book! I thought I was being sneaky by looking at it. Little did I know it was a plant.

Can finally hear my Canadian accent after watching this. Sore-y. Sore-y. It sounds like they're saying "sari" to my northern ears.

On paper, Beyoncé is the poster child for Huckabee's "Bubba culture" (that's what he called it on The Daily Show last night) values:

You don't approve of Beyoncé because she seems alien to you... You can't single out a corrosive culture and ignore the one that you live in because you're used to it

Huckabee is way closer to "bubble" than he is "bubba". Dude owns a fucking $3 million house in Florida.

First of all, how on earth did you get a copy of this? When I sent it out I explicitly wrote PRIVATE DO NOT SHARE (in all caps like that) at the top. I'd like to point our that whoever leaked this removed that, so by law, reprinting this is illegal. I know this because my father is very rich, runs Fowler Enterprises,…

Bravo for oppressing women and stealing from the poor? Being less bad than other popes doesn't mean he gets my applause. Women are still dying because of this man.

I don't know ... I agree with you that most of his so-called 'progressive' statements have been massively overblown, and he's really not said anything that contradicts catholic teaching ... and technically neither do these statements, but I have some conservative catholic friends who get really, really, really mad…

Exactly. I'm officially over this guy. The pope is supposed to be the infallible voice of god on earth, and the all-this-is-written-in-stone moral and spiritual leader of millions? But Francis is just making la-la happy noises that are either mealy-mouthed equivocations or are directly in contradiction with church law…

I think sperm can hang around for a day or so and be viable as well?

The voice of the Catholic Church is talking smack about idealogical colonization? Really? REALLY? One of the greatest and most pervasive missionary organizations in the history of the world has a problem with exporting ideas to developing nations?

I had full seven day periods twice a month before depo provera. I'm about to have a hysterectomy. If I was a straight woman, I'd never be able to have sex according to their rules.

Yo, as someone who grew up Catholic this means absolutely nothing. Its like Catholics trying to seem less bigoted about gay people by saying that they totally accept gayness, the fine print being that they never NEVER have sex. Cool Pope is saying here that he wants women to have less babies, but not with real…

It's great for when you want to get pregnant! Most women I know who were trying to tract fertility had success within 1 or 2 cycles.

Unless he said using condoms is fine, that isn't going to change shit. He basically just told people to fuck less, because OF COURSE they will /sarcasm. The same people only risked things like HIV and having more children than they could feed or survive before.

See, this is why making priests celibate was a terrible idea. Now they're all like, "Hey, if I can do it, married couples can too." Cause the Catholic Church still considers contraception a mortal sin, and Natural Family Planning ain't exactly foolproof.

Till he says it's OK to use condoms (at the very minimum) I won't be impressed.