"I'm beta-testing a program right now, a national registry for sex workers," Josephine said. "I go in and put in information about my clients in a very discreet and very secure way."

If you go to any rescue there are always plenty of kittens that don't cost $1000. I mean, purely from an economical standpoint I don't understand how a kitten mill could stay in business. I know all the big pet stores near me, if they have kittens at all, will get them from rescues.

So, I knew there were puppy mills, but kitten mills? I guess for weird purebreds like siamese or himalayan, but there are like a million cats in rescues that are perfectly awesome, why would someone pay a ton of money for an expensive cat?

Yeah, I was going to say that. She looks like a junkie.

If you read the article, it says there are several characters that are supernaturally transgendered, but this is the first character who is "normally" (i.e. the way people would be in real life) transgendered.

Aw, that sucks :-( Don't let one bad partner ruin it forever though, cuddling awesome!

Sounds depressing :-(

I thought that at first, but I mean who is afraid to sound whiny on a survey? I don't know. Maybe they have just internalized it so much that they convince themselves they really aren't tired.

The whole idea of this kind of makes me sad. I'm sure you can have a perfectly satisfactory time (read: orgasm) with a one-night stand, but am I the only one that thinks sex gets markedly better between after you do it like four or five times? You're both more relaxed and aware of what the other person likes. Also,…

Yep, I agree. Not judging, I just don't understand wanting to have sex with someone you don't even really like. Also, sex gets a lot better like the... fifth time you do it with someone because everyone involved gets a little more relaxed and starts to learn the things the other person likes.

Wait, what? So confused... how is toilet paper a thing that only girls need? What are they doing (or not doing) in the bathroom!?

What? Of course people use condoms. I don't know anybody in real life who didn't use a condom unless they were in a long term like 6+ month relationship. Oh, except my roommate in college ONE TIME while he was super drunk and he got chlamydia. Don't think he'll be doing that again. I imagine it depends on what…

Would be nice to see the data though. I'm not arguing with the overall picture, which I think is probably quite representative of the situation, but why should you count people who were acquitted when they were found not guilty of rape? Doesn't that make them not rapists?

It was once called philosophy (or rather, was part of philosophy) but nobody would call it that now.

All these things are science. Libraries exist in the physical world. People exist, interact, and form governments. These governments take different forms and have varying effects on societies, which can be measured and explained. Are you the arbiter of what is and isn't science, as opposed to say, all the top…

That makes sense for overall/reported, but what about faced trial/jailed? Maybe it means the other people were convicted but for some reason got lesser sentences than jail time? Seems crazy to me that anyone could be convicted of rape and not go to jail, but who knows.

It is science because it deals with testable hypotheses. Do you think there is some kind of conspiracy to pretend like it is science so it sounds more important? What would be the point of that?

Um... yes? Two of those are actually science. Also, environmental science.

Why the hate for computer science?

How can anyone possibly know how many rapes were committed but not reported, let alone which rapists were actually guilt, but were acquitted?