I don’t actually mind, I always read the greys so I assume others do too. I was just making jokes but, you know, they can’t all be winners.

Interestingly, and I don’t say this to disparage you, your position is closer to Bush 1’s than you may know. It’s pretty commonly believed/understood that what Bush really wanted to do was find a reason to invade Iraq to begin a kind of democracy conversion that would eventually cause conflict in the region to lessen…

Build a time machine so we can go back and not invade Iraq in 2003.

Sounds like all y’all need to toke up and chillllll.

That’s awesome. It sounds like you guys are doing it right. :)

This is one of my “secrets” that makes me question if I’m a feminist or not. I considered getting a burner for this comment, but meh.

The BDSM romance subgenre actually does lead heavily toward wrapping itself in so many props, costumes, rituals, honorifics, fantasy clubs, etc that it might as well be a Regency. Just replace Almack’s with The Whipping Post, or whatever the club is called.

Willing Victim is not Dark Romance, is the thing. I have never seen consent more skillfully yet explicitly negotiated. It’s practically a primer, without being offputtingly clinical in the least.

I don’t feel guilty about liking it (anymore, anyway), but it’s not something I often want to discuss with someone who doesn’t have my same interests... people misunderstand so easily.

Glad to know I’m not so much of a freak. It’s hard not to feel guilty about liking this sort of thing...

That’s the “forcible seduction” trope Natasha references and it mostly fell out of fashion 20 years ago. Romance has changed a lot even in the last decade.

oh cool. there’s something for that deep, dark, completely hidden part of my sexual desires that i don’t ever tell any girlfriends about. I’m going to try and find some dark romance stuff to buy.

WOAH.

Part 2

I like that they threw some wolf howls in, but I was going “oh c’mon, don’t fuck around with the wolf scene, we’ve only got one episode left to get to the end of book one!” so I was kinda glad when Angus (my favorite of the show posse) shows up instead.

I also do not want to wait two weeks, but then I don’t want it to be over either. I know they just started filming the second season, so goodness knows how long we are going to have to wait to see it. It is only 13 episodes, so hopefully when they do show season 2 it will be all at once, and not broken into two parts…

First, A++++ to the show for having zero Hines play the warden as he was the original Scottish Jamie on Doctor Who and the inspiration for our Jamie Fraser.

Until there are actual facts, yes.

In defense of Samuel L. Jackson, one of the most annoying things in the world is when someone says something loudly about you in public as if you can’t hear it.

I guess it depends on whether you think a sexual urge is a moral failing. As stated in the article, it is the behavior, not the inclination that needs to be corrected. These people have the most taboo desire in society and want to make themselves safe. Absolutely they should get help.