When people say things like "Sex is not real life," it really concerns me. Sex is real life. Everything that's in your life, that you do or think, is real. Fiction is not real. Sex is not fictional. Pornography is not fictional—it's real people having real sex, real people watching it and really, really masturbating.…

Just because something's been with us "since the beginning of time" doesn't necessarily mean it's a good and necessary part of society. I mean, the argument that people enjoy watching other people enjoy themselves—that's an argument for the continued legalization of pornography that makes sense. It's been around for a…

I'm with you.

Generally speaking, when someone gets raped—or alleges that they were raped—the authorities do a rape kit. If the catatonic girl hadn't been raped, and there was no indication that she'd been penetrated or had any kind of intercourse or bruising or evidence of rape or sex, then it would be pretty tough for anybody to…

yeah and some men get off on rape. Its a form of exerting power, knowing that they can rape women without consequences because everyone thinks that women lie about rape charges all the time.

Yeah but now most states—if not all?—have Romeo and Juliet clauses to prevent these kinds of "statutory rape" cases from being illegal.

No amount of screening by your friend who almost exclusively dates through match will prevent the crazies from getting through, either.

"Your children have a better chance of being struck by lightning than by being abducted raped and murdered. You teach your kids about stranger danger for sure, but do you teach them about the dangers of lightning strikes? "

What is a spheroid toilet? I googled it and the first two links that came up were this article and the original Levy article. Google images showed pictures of things that look like toilets. Aren't all toilets spheroid? How is spheroid different from spherical?

Yeah, I find the conflation of "libertarianism" and "anarchism" to be very problematic in this article.

Also, it's not "much to do about nothing," it's "much ado about nothing."

Hair pins and bobby pins are two different tools. The picture above is bobby pins. But U-bend hairpins would be better for pitting cherries.

Pretty much all over the northeast, AC isn't universal. I've never had AC, either growing up (upstate NY) or college (Boston) or now (Rhode Island). My parents got it after all their kids moved out, which had a lot to do with my father's heart attack and trying to keep his exertion/stress levels down in the heat of…

I mean, I don't think that drug-resistant bacteria are going to kill of the entire population of homo sapiens. But I do think that it'll kill a bunch of unique members of the species. So I don't worry about it in terms of cultural collapse, but I do rather worry about individuals getting it.

Well of course she's responsible for her actions. I don't think she ought to get posthumous mother-of-the-year awards or anything.

You don't think that a mother who killed herself and her kids, in a terrifying, painful, and horrific way, but by all accounts who loved and cared for her children the best she could before she killed herself and them, was probably so severely mentally ill that her mental illness was the reason she did it?

"If you don't want people looking at porn, perhaps the computers should be moved to a MORE public area? "

But how many runaway 15-year-old kids have a few grand lying around to get themselves a fake id?

1. My first thought was something like, OMG COSMO WAS RIGHT. And then I was like, We have to start getting men to be insecure about the way their belly looks when they fuck, and to wax their anus hair, and to wear uncomfortable fat-reigning-in underpants, and pushup bras. And THEN that will clearly work to turn women…

Just because Psychology Today calls some sexual behavior submissive doesn't mean it's actually submissive.