Jezebel should either have an advice column where the editor and commenters can tell the asker how awesome they are, or facilitate some sort of chat room where we can sing each other's praises FOR FREE. #priceless

I felt bad because I still thought it looked delicious :((

SERIOUSLY.

We won't eat it, but we'll have sex near it!!

"Feces Cake Prank Begs the Questions: How...? And More Importantly Why?"

Haha. I think part of the problem is that *I* care way more about it than necessary. You make it sound so shrug-worthy! Duly noted.

Everyone on this thread has such wonderful usernames, yourself included! Thank you for your advice!

"the best thing you can have is a man who won't freak the fuck out if something goes awry"

High five to metacognition! :)

Period = oral? Are they joking that oral is gross or that period is mainstream? Sorry, super confused :(

Yeah, my initial reaction was much too abstract. I thought about it a lot more later, and yes of course I'm more used to my period than any guy. And I am probably/definitely more uptight about admitting I have a functional colon than the average person. Also, in terms of my own squick factor: as a teacher, I'd be way…

IKR. Once when I was on my period, the guy I was casually dating suggested we have anal sex. I think I just kind of stared at him because I was like "Why are guys so squicked out by period sex yet so on board with anal (aka shit! santorum! bacteria!) sex?" This is a similar question to "Why do you try to finger my…

I second Jelly71's advice because I've never done it sober (but I always decide sober, just so that's clear). I'm a really tense, anxious person who tends to overthink things (including the hygienics of it!), so it can seriously work magic. Also Dan Savage would recommend not worrying about it not working. Like don't…

I'd be interesting in reading/hearing more about the "perfectionism" behind anal—as in, my primary concern is the potential for mess/stink. As much as he or I might want to do it, I'd hate to ruin his fantasy that I shit rainbows and sunshine. Is that something that came up in Schwyzer's polling at all? Or something…

Seconding the don't! I am a little jealous of you, I wish I liked it more.

I'd read about it in Marie Claire (I think, maybe Cosmo), when I was in high school. There was a whole article about women who were with men who just "accidentally slipped in." It seems horribly cruel and I'd like to think there aren't people out there doing that. I always get nervous when guys pull all the way out…

Ha! During a late-night sharing-sesh, one roommate once asked our third "But does it feel GOOD?!" and she answered "It feels good the same way taking a shit feels good." I always thought that was an interesting and frank answer.

That's fair—I just think you should have said this instead of your original comment.

I know! I always tell myself it can't be real or at least not applicable to me, because I can't fathom how it happened.

I think it was not a judgment of Jezebel's, but rather a reference to the Atlantic article itself, which was written in a very pearl-clutchy way.