I've only used Ben Wah balls in my vagina. It never occurred to me to put them anywhere else.

Have you ever started a fire with rocks? I have, and it is WORK. It's not something that happens just by having some rocks juggling around in your pocket.

I've been in the hospital a lot (a year that goes by without me spending a week or two in the hospital is rare), and I usually do FB and post pics from the hospital. It's boring in there. There isn't much else you can do. Also, if you are communicating with the outside world via FB/Twitter, you can beg people to…

I'm one of the women who is left out under the act (and who has also been a victim of rape), and I just see this as gallows humor. One of those "if I don't laugh, I'll cry—well, fuck, I'll just cry anyway" things.

I was in the hospital for three weeks for surgery. I made my mom watch ten seasons of The Simpsons and the Planet Earth documentary. When that ordeal was over, I knew she loved me. I KNEW it. She also somehow survived the hospital room that had to be very, very cold (my head was wrapped up so I was warm and they…

He is extremely, extremely hot. That smile!

Ok, it wasn't clear to me.

I do have to say, though, that people who have been raised in abusive homes can still be empathetic. I was raised in an abusive home and have higher than average empathy. I know many people who suffered terrible abuse but are still very empathetic. Very few survivors of abuse go on to be abusers—or even…

I had a terrible experience in college being called into the dean's office because my roommates had complained about my behavior. The dean listed some things off, but I didn't remember ANY of it—one thing it all had in common, though: it all happened at night. I told the dean I didn't remember it, but she just said…

I read an article Margaret Atwood wrote about researching for and writing "A Handmaid's Tale." She said she based it on the U.S.'s deeply conservative religious roots—and if you look at where our nation came from, who we are and where we might (though I pray not) end up make sense. Our nation was started by a…

Ok. That makes sense. I never saw Hounddog, so I wouldn't know.

Maybe not. I know that it was called something along the lines of "the family", but it had a lot of other names, too.

Frankly, I would rather have a doctor do extra tests. I would rather have a doctor do every fucking test in the world.

Wait, I think I have a friend who was raised in that, erm, religion. It did a number on her.

Can you give any details or analysis? You've said a couple of times on here that you didn't like it, but you haven't said why.

I live in Utah, grew up in Idaho in a 99% Mormon town, and it is so very Mormon to do this. I seriously do not know an active Mormon woman with daughters who didn't stick those awful things on the child's head. They'd also stick flowers to their heads with super glue.

I was just thinking of making one, actually.

I was bullied in elementary and jr. high, but by the time we reached high school, most of us had grown out of that sort of thing. Anyone who did stuff like that was just a huge jerk. And I've apologized to people I feel I may have hurt when I was young—I've also had people apologize to me (and for the most part, I…

Heheheheh. It wouldn't be a REAL marriage!

I wasn't a happy kid, but I'm a happy adult, so I think that makes up for it. Please don't be sad.