LOL! When my husband is away on business, I'm going to start referring to my vagina as King Tut's tomb. I'm glad I'm not the only one who is paranoid that my IUD has magically disappeared and/or stopped functioning for no apparent reason.

It's gotten much easier now that I've had it a few years—I pretty much trust it to do what it needs to do. But the first year or so, I freaked out frequently. But the worst that happened was I wasted a fair bit of money on pointless pregnancy tests, so it's not like it was horrible. Just annoying.

Huh? There are doctors and nurse practitioners at Planned Parenthood, both of whom can insert an IUD.

I've always had super-long, super-heavy periods. After I had the Mirena inserted, I had heavy (HEAVY!) bleeding that lasted 62 days. TWO MONTHS. All day, every day, no break. I started taking iron supplements. It was awful. I was just about ready to call my doctor and have it removed when it lightened up, and then…

Perforation is extremely rare: It happens to something like one-tenth of one percent of users. As for why it's hard to get if you haven't yet had children, it's a mixture of paranoia over the old, dangerous IUDs that caused sterility in many women, and research (possibly outdated, but it's still widely respected)…

YOU GOT ANESTHESIA?!!! Jesus fuck, now I'm pissed at my doctor.

Maybe you should edit out the c-word and put your vicious, witty burn back up, because I really wanted to read it.

Honestly, I love my IUD, but it is not worry-free. Care-free, yes—I don't have to do anything. But that is exactly what freaks me out. I just have to trust that it's in there, doing its thing. With the pill or a condom, you know that you are either using it or not; it's something you physically do each time. The…

Man, that made me laugh. And now I want some falafel and hummus really badly.

I was a hard-core Catholic before I became a hard-core atheist, and while I still believed, I planned to become a nun. I volunteered at a convent for several years with the intention of becoming a postulant there, and those women were freaking amazing. They spent plenty of time in prayer and silent meditation, trying…

@Justinsexgod: That's what I remember. My parents are devout Catholics, and I spent many a summer attending a variety of Vacation Bible Schools (churches usually run them in different weeks during summer, so kids often go to several so they aren't bored all summer). I remember it being mostly singing, playing, eating…

Seriously. How do you think to yourself, "These people are threatening children, encouraging people to go to their schools and their home, and threatening to torture people. Well, guess we've just got to let them keep on keeping on, because that's what kind of people they are. Nothing to be done about it."?

I'm not sure how anyone would cheer for the side that is threatening to torture people and harm children.

OMG, that last one slayed me. Of course, I was a Lit major who switched to Eastern European Studies at the end of sophomore year, so I'm biased.

The idea that adults outgrow needing good role models makes me sad (totally setting aside the whole vicious homophobia thing). I feel like even though I'm 34, I still want smart, inspirational people to look up to and motivate me to achieve great things.

Their entire Facebook page has to shut down so their kids can spend two hours a day singing songs about Jesus and eating orange slices? Yeah, now I'm totally, completely convinced the entire group is actually one asshole with a keyboard.

There are quite a few Whovians/Torchwoodites around here—Jezebel was the first place I ever heard of Doctor Who, and is completely responsible for not only introducing me to it, but ensuring that I became so addicted that I spent 90% of my first-ever trip to London last month looking for Doctor Who memorabilia and…

Right here! :waves hand. Torchwood, yes?

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But aren't common nicknames for cocaine exactly like that? I've heard it called both powder and snow.