If I could upvote this 69 times I would. Go have fun. You deserve it.

Rackham is my personal favorite/audience surrogate on the show, as the smaller, well spoken, pragmatic character. I really enjoyed seeing him resign to a certain conflict, and kicking ass at it.

Seriously, you can say the show has a sexist atmosphere, because it's the 1700s so wtf, but between Eleanor, Max, Anne, and Miranda the women consistently kick ass and are on top of things and have their own agency.

Holy shit, Black Sails is consistently knocking it out of the park this season. I would compare their S2 with Dexter D2 until the end, building on tensions inherent in the premise, or Shameless S4, where a trash soap opera actually gets good. AVClub, why are you not reviewing this? What are your freelance rates? …

To follow up on Rickster's suggestion, make a new anonymous e mail account, and post a personal here in the comments, looking for people withing X miles of Y metropolitan area near you. At that point you can narrow it down to AVClub Savage Love readers who are reasonably close to you, know Dan's campfire rules, and…

If you take prehistoric society to either extreme, that either 1) A tribe of 50-150 humans cooperated with each other for survival, women were not property, and free to bang everyone they wanted, but to assault one meant being ostracized from the tribe and likely death, or 2) Physically superior men were free to…

They go so far in the book as to describe how penis shape creates a vacuum so as to pull back prior entries, and how certain chemicals in semen can act to kill other sperm. Seriously biologically competitive stuff.

I heard a phrase in The World's End, "She had a massive wide on for Soandso" and I still laugh every time I think of it. I understand why it hasn't caught on though.

Immediate opening with attractive, demanding vagina. Applicants must be stable, rational types. Grooming, hygiene, and professional appearance required. Must be able to perform strenuous physical tasks, and while preferences may be shown to certain physical types this is an equal employment opportunity, including…

The authors are both happily married for awhile, or were when I read it, and the wife has another long term (years+) boyfriend who may or may not live with them at least part of the year. It was in the forward or dedications or something like that.

Here we go. Like I said, I understand it was all psuedoscience and interesting ideas, but it was interesting bullshit. I did find this, but I've never heard this podcast before.

Is that really a factor in these things? I couldn't grow a full beard to save my life, and just plain don't have any chest hair, but I'm significantly above average, apparently even above gay average.

Actually, they were blaming society for treating women like chattel. It's a pretty good book.

I forget most of the details, it was in that book Sex at Dawn that Dan has suggested before. I do remember they said "this doesn't prove this, but it's a correlation." It was a psuedoscientifical discussion of facts which fit their premise, not someone trying to calculate a statistical confidence level in…

*ahem* *clears throat*

Does that work for the gay men?

Pretty sure I've read a discussion of the statistic broken down among different culture and genetic types. The author's theory was that penis size has been reduced/is being rapidly reduced in response to monogamy and a lack of sexual competition among penises to get the job done better than other ones ever since the…

Definitely little future Chicago mobster. "I provide you with protection, you provide me with services." Breaking legs, slinging rocks, Carl rolls like an OG.

Ian stuff: as I've mentioned on these boards before I'm bipolar. They nailed that visitation scene, except for omitting the part where they had to remove belts, shoelaces, etc. before going in. I know this because I had to visit my mother in such a place in my late 20s.

Non Ian Stuff: I really liked the dual school arcs of Carl and Debbie, and both of them resorting to violent bullying because that was their last resource. I liked Fiona, but waiting so goddam long for her to make a positive choice kinda took the wind out of it. I hate seeing lip mess up his future for now, but…