I find that extremely disturbing as well for a number of reasons including, as you mentioned, giving another possible reason to dismiss the stories of rape victims. Another reason is that whenever we start to parse rape and incest exceptions in abortion bills, we've conceded a lot of ground. Rape and incest exceptions…

I'm really disturbed by this "rapes must be reported to police or they're not real rapes" nonsense. Because of this, rape allegations will be treated with even more disdain, with cops, defendants, and defense attorneys all whining "she just wants an abortion, it wasn't really rape." And thus no abortion and no…

Not only that, but these are bills that everyone knows will be vetoed immediately by Obama.

I feel like this should've been a scene from a Seinfeld episode, not erotic fiction.

This is exactly it -except I can guarantee that E.L James did not even bother to watch some kink.com before hand. She's not kinky IRL at all which is confirmed by her rather uncomfortably under the spotlight husband, and I think a lot of this is wish fulfillment and fantasy and that's exactly how it reads. The…

Suddenly the mysterious nature of the female orgasm makes sense. There I was trying to make something happen, and my clit was probably just off drinking dollar beers and cheating at pool.

Flushing tampons down the toilet is the real horror here. NOT SO SEXY WHEN YOU HAVE POOP WATER ALL OVER THE FLOOR AND YOU'RE TRYING TO GET A PLUMBER ON THE PHONE AT TWO IN THE MORNING, CHRISTIAN, EH?

They probably had to stop so they could figure out how to add a lot of extra funding and training so the police are better equipped to appropriately handle survivors right? Plus legislation to make our system efficient enough so that rape kits don't just sit in some storage box for a decade unexamined. Because what's…

So, wait, they can't even get their shit together for a meaningless gesture that everyone knows will be vetoed? Oh man. Oh MAN. The next two years are gonna be great.

What millennials are they even talking to? like.....does Trent Franks even go here?

If abortion is "murder," then why should there be any exceptions at all?

No, no, you all stay under your bridges, thanks.

TOUCH THEIR STOMACH BACK.

You know, I was having an interesting conversation about sexual assault with my boyfriend and a guy friend of mine. We were talking about how this specific breed of bro drunken rape is particularly hard to understand (obviously ALL rape is heinous, but we were talking about this particular category) because, to your…

Ugh, more importantly, giving an accused rapist the presumption of innocence means assuming that the accusers are guilty of filing false reports, slander, and perjury. There is no such thing as "innocent until proven guilty" in cases such as this; you have to assume that one side is guilty, and for some reason, people…

Gah, I haven't had time to tune in yet, so these write-ups are helping me keep current. But I still feel like I just need to make the time.

Yes.

Republican Governor Bobby Jindal was stupid on Twitter, and it's been up for three hours.