Tom Ellis’ ass appears so frequently on Netflix’s Lucifer it must be getting its own salary.

Previous seasons have taught us that no one in Hell has ever gotten over their guilt and thus broken their Hell loop/ escaped Hell. Now I’ve got to wonder if Lee will manage it. He managed to figure out the source of his guilt, after all, so maybe he can forgive himself eventually? (Lee’s comment about the Hell loop…

My understanding is that strangling is one of the best predictors of murder among abusers.

I have no problem with Dan answering the LW’s question, but I do object to the quality of the advice, and I do think he should point out that divorce may well be the best option.

Agreed, though I think the LW should think very carefully about whether tying to dictate an arrangement might result in some sort of retaliation on her husband’s part. She should only choose that option if she’s sure that it’s safe.

Hard disagree on letter #1. The husband is controlling, and quite possibly still abusive or borderline abusive, even if he’s not choking the LW (It’s hard to tell without more information.). I’m guessing that a guy like that will find out if the LW sexts with/ meets/ has an affair with another man (The incident with…

I had a similar reaction to the phrase when I read Gone with the Wind as a teenager. I really had to puzzle out what was going on since premarital sex was obviously not something that was happening in the context of the book.

And since we’re on the topic of the language surrounding sex, a lot of sex language drives me crazy. Can we please obliterate the phrase “took his/her/their virginity” from the English language? The concept of virginity is bad enough (If you think that the first time you have sex is special in some way, then great,…

Co-sign. The language is gross, and while I fully support this guy’s right to fantasize about whatever he wants to fantasize about, he sounds like he’s trying to write erotica rather than crafting a legit list of must-haves/ deal-breakers for a potential partner. What do I want in a man? Oh, well, he has to be kind.…

I mean, if you honestly believe that it’s romantic to commit suicide over thwarted love, that is a pretty big warning sign. I doubt that most Goethe nerds are living in that head space, though. And if we’re going with the logic that anyone who reads a book agrees with the actions of its characters, anyone who has a…

Why is Rand so widely assigned in schools, you ask? Did the Common Core decide that children should be reading books that tried to convey the gist of the Marquis de Sade and Nietzsche, but with way more length and a little less rape and torture? Has Alan Greenspan come out of retirement to teach high school? Not…

My reaction to your love of On the Road is very age-dependent. If you’re 19, it’s adorable. If you’re 40, please don’t sit next to me on the bus.

I’d propose to you, but we’d inevitably divorce when our house ran out of room to hold both of our book collections.

As everyone here is saying, Hemingway can be excellent, particularly In Our Time. A lot of fanboys get off on the whole papa bear/ bullfighter image, though, and those people are better left undated.

I won’t go so far as to say that Requiem is a bad movie. It does what it’s trying to do very well, and it works on the level of plot instead of just the level of atmosphere (Not all Aronofsky films do. Looking at you Pi and The Fountain.). That being said, Trainspotting feels a lot more realistic. Obviously, many…

I think Penny’s worldliness was mostly appropriate for the character. As a teenage girl who’s been a groupie for several years, Penny has seen (and put up with) a lot. Also, given the character’s cynicism, it makes sense that she got tired of the whole groupie lifestyle and decided to go to Morocco to look for…

Yep. A lot of the people who love Scorsese fail to understand that as befits a good Catholic, Scorsese’s favorite theme is temptation. Henry Hill and Jordan Belfort are basically Jesus wandering in the desert, if Jesus gave in to Satan’s little reminders that unlimited gratification and power could be his.

Many people are against: 1) heterosexual normativity, and 2) queer people having to come out all the time when straight people are assumed to be straight. The people writing into Dan with their orientations when that information isn’t directly relevant are generally doing so with the intention(s) of reminding people…

I’ve never been a fan of Korn, but I do have to give them reluctant props for sounding unique. It would be really difficult to confuse a Korn song for Limp Bizkit or any other band of the time, Nu Metal or otherwise. That’s a quality I appreciate in any band that broke in the late ‘90s/ ealy 2000s.

Eh, I dunno. There are a lot of songs about how much a dude/lady/whoever likes sex, and they vary a lot. Plenty of them masquerade as romantic love songs (What’s Boyz II Men’s “I’ll Make Love to You” but a brag about being able to last all night directed at one, uh, special lady?). Some definitely appeal more than…