I feel you. When I was little I was always getting blonde Barbies, which were nice, but... My very favorite Barbie in the *whole world* was Miko, a Pacific Island doll with this long gorgeous black hair. I'm not a Pacific Islander but I was infatuated by how her skin and hair and eyes looked like mine. I'd brush…

I've been married nearly 9 years now. Sex is nowhere near gone, nor is love, and our daughter isn't a brat.

Yes, let me know, too. I'm definitely down with the host family idea. I'd love to help any way I can.

Perhaps the whole problem is that we're making bachelorette parties too complicated. (Lingerie gifts, trinkets, etc.) We could just scale it down to male strippers and booze! (Or female strippers, depending on your preference.) And we make sure to only invite close friends who enjoy strippers and booze. Perhaps…

It would have been awesome if you had gone to Medieval Times in penis tiaras, though.

Promise?

"Also, WTF about "baking" is so important to being a "good wife"?"

Sure, I could take precautions. Heck, I could go all out and wear abaya and hijab, never drive a car, make sure that I am always accompanied by a male member of my family if I leave the house - the whole shabang. I could do everything in my power to "prevent" being raped, but still be raped. A rapist will attempt…

But where do these "precautions" end, though? Let's say we ladies never go out between the hours of 6 pm and 6 am, we never get drunk, and are always certain to wear modest clothing. At what point do these precautions begin to infringe on our right to live our life as a normal human being? Locking my car door isn't…

*internet wave from a nearby zip code*

Responding to your second post (I'm not touching the first one just yet), it's very likely that her response was due to just good old fashioned embarrassment, and not something necessarily due to her sex. Here's my anecdote: There was one guy I was dating whose penis and testicles occasionally gave off a noticeable…

The saddest thing is, I actually wouldn't be surprised to see something that.

Quite honestly, I have no clue if that's normal or not and I'm not sure many of us here are really qualified to answer that. I'd suggest maybe talking with her and letting her know that you're there for her whenever she feels like going out sometime, be it just the two of you or with your infants. Maybe ask her if…

Say it ain't so, Jane! Say it ain't so!

Well, I can't really throw my informed opinion out there regarding those books because I haven't read them... but I'll admit I'm super, super liberal myself and a feminist so I'm still coming from that viewpoint. That being said, I also graduated as a History major (minored in Anthropology) and I absolutely agree…

I'd have no problem with phallus statues everywhere. Just sayin'.

Also responding to bump this.

I still don't understand why anal sex between two men is condemned, though. It doesn't make any logical sense. That is, of course, unless we're going back the whole "sex is only meant for making babies and that's all" thing. Which I guess would explain the New Testament's condemnation of lustful sex and not the…