In Japanese it means 'weird' or 'perverted'.

If they honestly tried to invite speakers based on expertise and not gender, then fantastic.

Yeah pretty much.

In completely unsurprising news: Pretty much everything involves some shit heel doing something shitty to, for, or at another shit heel and someone who didn't do anything wrong gets the shitty end of the stick. They are often blamed for owning disgusting shit sticks.

I won't say there isn't a conflict of interest. There clearly is.

How many contracted from work? Contracting HIV in your personal life doesn't make your job responsible, even if your job is high risk.

Show me where the burden of proof should be on the people who are being legislated to hell for "protection" from something that they don't want or need.

There is strong evidence that prolonged use causes abrasions.

Are you suggesting that only one person disagrees with you?

You've been arguing in several places on this story and you've never once come up with anything that hasn't been pretty soundly knocked on the head.

Of course there's a conflict of interest. However, the porn industry workers (not the corporate owners) have come out in force against it on the reasoning that it actually raises infection risk. They've also backed it up with some sort of evidence, instead of running scare campaigns.

As far as I know, dead skin doesn't always flake off properly and can get stuck in pores, on top of the new skin and can cause problems. Scrubbing the dead old skin away occasionally can apparently help.

September 12th 2013, Nina Hartley wrote an excellent piece about the issue. Here is a nice quote:

So... I'm under the impression that these infections were contracted in the performers' personal lives, not in their jobs.

This is a surprisingly solid result. Things are getting better. It's not perfect, but it is improving.

This guy is goddamn amazing.

I was lucky enough to never have acne and I still get carded for not looking 18 at times. I turn 30 this week. I may have some severe confirmation bias here, but I always secretly* thought my friends who had acne were crazy for all the chemical crap and the exfoliating.

I have a 5 litre jar of pure, raw honey in my house. I use it for damn near everything.

That's not at all what I was saying... Like, at all.

Yeah! It's such a satisfying one! I do the second and third knuckles on all fingers, all three knuckles on my thumbs, and the one in the hand where the pinky bone meets the wrist.