Oh hi, the endless loop of raise misery that seems to happen all too often. I can’t tell if my terrible salary and mediocre raises have anything to do with being a woman or with having started in a position in the company that lacks prestige. All I know is that a man got hired into another department at nearly three…

I think that’s the norm for a lot of people, just because of the wedding-night-sex myth. But I do agree that if you are purposefully abstinent until marriage it does seem to come up more. I high-fived a friend at his wedding because the guy was FINALLY going to get to have sex. He was thrilled and not even…

I mean, I also went from having only made out before to assorted hanky-panky and then sex within a reasonably short period of time, but there definitely WAS time. I think having it ALL happen on the same day would be overwhelming. And possibly crappy, since no one has had time to figure out what they’re doing.

Jumping straight from no-kissing to first kiss and first fuck seems sort of alarming for everyone involved.

My husband and I seriously considered pizza for our reception. It would have been "fancy" pizza, like nice brick oven pizzas with interesting toppings, and we would have served other things with it (like, salad. And probably garlic bread and other suitable things for appetizers). I really like pizza and we didn't need…

wtf is a refrigerator mom? It is calling to mind very odd visuals.

I didn't understand it at ALL until I read the article.

I am apparently anatomically incapable of wearing any sort of menstrual cup. I have tried three varieties at this point and no matter where I put them or how hard I try I feel them all day and they are uncomfortable (the Diva Cup suctioned its damn self in, which wasn't a HUGE problem but definitely was less fun). My…

I've always struggled with the "sacred period" concept, which might be because I have no desire to have children and do not have any need or inclination to view a bodily process related to creating them as empowering. I do accept it as a normal fact of my life, however, and I do think that we, culturally, need to get…

Oh god my husband is ridiculously grossed out by vagina moisture. I had an ongoing issue in which I thought I had yeast infections but was actually allergic to our soap, and I would be like welll....my discharge isn't chunky like a yeast infection? It's more like yellow and gross? And not like the nice normal…

I use "BUT I'M BLEEDING" as a justification for a lot, usually food.

I am pretty sure you are not the voice of reason here.

I have NEVER seen one before! How on earth did that get into a cervix?? It does look like scifi.

It is TOTALLY offputting and I honestly do feel kind of bad about it! Like, some people have weird faces! Some people take bad pictures! I am sure that his politics contribute to my immediate anger when I see him.

This is the meanest thing because I am sure he can't (entirely) help it, but I HATE his face. I think it's something about the eyebrows that makes him look like he is always making a "sympathetic" face, in which "sympathetic" deserves quotation marks and he is really being aggressively condescending. Throw in a small…

Oh that is great! I didn't realize it didn't stop periods though. I loved the no-period thing but my cervix apparently did not love its resident. I wonder if I would have been more comfortable with a smaller option.

I was just trying to explain what might be a cause for that mentality.

Yes this explains so much to me. There are so many of those shirts out now that I sort of saw it and was like, ok whatever, don't get that reference but maybe some people really like chives?

Generally, depending on what you get and where you live, an STD is way more curable than pregnancy.

Every time I see the name Dalkon Shield I think it should be a science fiction reference of some sort.