Your story sounds almost identical mine, all the way down to the late bloomer bit, with the only difference being I have a stepson, not a stepdaughter. Never thought I'd meet another like me! :) I'm going to navigate the kid's foray into teenhood (he's 12 now yikes) as much as possible because his mother…

I started at 14 and was lucky enough to have parents that took me to the Gyn to get tested and on the pill. I will teach my kids (2 girls, 1 boy) about the social stigmas and why they're bullshit (but why/how it will impact them), the physical risks (STIs, pregnancy), the emotional risks (co-dependency, infatuation),…

Starting late made ALL the difference for me, as a former slut myself (married for years now). I didn't start having sex until I was 22. I slept with a lot of people very quickly, I think I was acting out my high school and college hookup life all at once—in high school I was a wallflower who barely even TALKED to a…

I'm one of those unicorns who has had what I would consider a pretty large number of partners and very few regrets, I guess. I regret a few of them because things didn't work out as I'd planned but that was usually a situation of me not being right for a person I was in a relationship with. I rarely regret a one…

Yeah eff that woman that said "never OK". Does that include wedding rings, watches, superbowl rings, St. Christopher medals, sentimental heirlooms of some kind? She's an idiot.

it also says something when people in countries like North Korea are trying to escape such oppressive hunger games-like structures while some of us *pay* large sums of money to simulate suffering :(

It continues to bother me that people consider the Hunger Games to be so fictitious. I dare you to take any child working in some Southeast Asian sweatshop on a 1st class flight to New York in 2014 and not find the experience to be just as starkly different as taking a tribute from District 12 and bringing them to the…

Barbie please, most of us could eat whatever at 16 and still maintain our figures. At 34 I gain weight just by looking at food.

He's a fiction writer.

In my experience, with my two daughters, both of whom were breastfed. It's probably not true for every baby.

OMG, my nieces poop smelled so bad I thought it was going to warp my contact lenses. That could easily clear out a decent sized restaurant.

DUDE, PLEASE. are you seriously trying to quibble about "legitimate poop." You are splitting hairs and getting way off track, the hallmark of a troll, except you're not being mean or weird yet. But stop with this degrees of poop thing, because there is only one correct answer to how much poop or what kind of poop I…

Good for them!

Baby shit can smell horrendous. My exclusively-breasfed nephew's shits smell like he's an alcoholic hobo living off of Taco Bell.

I saw a protest here in Atlanta a few years back. I was out running errands and didn't have anything to do so I stopped and talked to the closest guy. He said there were sinners inside and they were letting everyone know about the den of inequity behind him. I said "Oh thanks! I never knew this was here but thanks to…

Oh dear. Okay.

She complains that she didn't have a private place, but then acknowledges she "didn't want" to go back to the minivan. LADY YOU GET THAT BABY AND THAT POO BACK TO THE MINIVAN OR YOU DON'T GO OUT IN PUBLIC.

OF COURSE YOU CAN'T CHANGE A FUCKING DIAPER IN THE MIDDLE OF A RESTAURANT.

Anywhere I've been has a check box on the customs form where you have to say yes/no if you are carrying more than 10k in cash. It might be a good idea to start reading documents before you sign them.

anyone who has ever crossed an international border through customs?