Respectfully, I think you're sort of half-right. I think in general, as the author of the post mentioned, people mis-gender trans* individuals because they know them personally and are often adjusting to seeing their friend or relative as the trans* individual has always seen themselves. There are unintentional…

Is.. is that Lee Pace?

OH MY GOD THANK YOU. I had just suffered the heartbreak of realizing the series wasn't on Netflix.

Yeah, that was a deeply inappropriate word choice.

That seems.... wrong. An awful Catch-22.

I think it also depends on the person. I am super lucky in that I usually come pretty easily from normal sex stuff. A dear friend of mine has only come from penetrative sex a handful of times in her life (she's the same age I am). I recommend going to a friendly, woman-positive shop and getting some advice.…

HOW DO YOU GET THINGS DONE?

I'm hoping that if that happens, I'll still have a steady partner. Because, frankly, I already went through about five or six years of being waaayyy too promiscuous. Though hopefully at 30, my judgment will be better than it was at 20.

Maybe more useful, but almost certain to run into legal complications.

Maybe we can hand out permission slips?

I would guess that you will. Don't be sad! I'm a bit of a dork, but look into Mula Bandha. It's a yogic body lock you can engage that's supposed stimulate genital engagement (the second chakra, for ancient yogis and modern hippies).

MA was really fascinating. I never thought much about her until a recent trip to…

Haha. It's funny, my brother has Asperger's and I know a lot of multi-lingual people (some of whom have an only casual understanding of their first language), so your situation makes perfect sense to me. Also, Finnish is fascinating- since, as you probably know, it's somewhat of a language isolate.

Aaaand now I'm going…

Or practicing mula bandha in your power yoga classes. Yogasms for all!

I grew up with (I think) a pretty non-oppressive view of sexuality. It was kind of a non-factor, we didn't really talk about it, shamefully or non-shamefully- and I didn't know how to masturbate properly until age 25 or 26. At 27, I'm a fucking champ.

Yeah, I find that sex can be (for me, anyway) a little like sugar: If I stop for a while, I kind of forget about it. I'm with a partner that I'm super into right now, we have sex at least once per day, six days a week and I'm masturbating more than fucking ever, because he turns me on and I think about him all the…

WHY WOULD YOU WANT TO???

Ditto!

I had a bad time at first. I'm six months in now and it's (mostly) fine, other than spotting, which never fails to piss me the fuck off. Is the plastic thingy really stabbing your uterus? Because that seems like it shouldn't be happening, barring some unique feature of your personal anatomy.

Oh my god. I'm a few years away from 30, but I swear if my sex drive gets any higher I will never leave the house.

That's odd, my sex drive PLUMMETED after I got my Mirena. I think I had a harder time with it than most, though. Lots of pain and cramping.

I felt that way for the first 26 years of my life, actually. Lotsa sex, no me-time. I've changed my tune in the last couple months, but I get ya, girl.

I actually believe some of the numbers, though I might be an anomaly. I NEVER masturbated before I went to college. It just didn't even occur to me. Once I went to college, I tried it, but didn't really get it. I don't think I really knew enough about myself to make it worth my time- it seemed sort of awkward and…