@avclub-e57f718840a576abbb40a7d046c4e3b0:disqus I'm continually amazed by your acknowledging the existence of JNCOs. I was just thinking about them the other day for some reason. When I was in sixth grade they were super popular and my friends and I all got them for Christmas and we would look at the website which…

I couldn't agree more. I will be immodest for a minute and say that I have a pretty good body for clothes (especially dresses) and empire waist looks terrible on me. If you have good hips and actually have a waist, it covers that up and is totally pointless, and even if you don't, the style is just shapeless and looks…

@avclub-749a8e6c231831ef7756db230b4359c8:disqus Sure, hit me up at elliexx87@gmail.

I think that's a totally normal behavior - my mom used to do it all the time (possibly still does, but I don't know about it). I never ever wear a bra in the house, but I always change into "house clothes" when I get home anyway.

I am getting desperate enough to seriously consider online dating, which is depressing the shit out of me because I feel like I should be able to meet people in real life no problem. I'm 25 and live in Boston so I am totally surrounded by graduate students, guys who work at biotechs etc. Yet I don't know how to…

It's truly the worst and I have the opposite problem of most people. I'm basically flat chested and will not wear anything with underwire. I want a very specific type of bra: No underwire, lace, separate cups, but I want a real band (1.5-3 inches wide) not just like a string bikini, which is what they have at Urban…

@avclub-b31df16a88ce00fed951f24b46e08649:disqus I realize I sound like a crazy person at this point, so I swear I will drop it with this, but it is truly beyond me how you can say "I was extraordinarily fascinated (not erotically so) by the texture and
sound of paper from the first time I remember encountering it,…

@avclub-cfe912f5cb3aa572bd1c9ae2a9b82207:disqus My point is that it's not substantially different from any other type of interest. There's just no point in analyzing it. It's like looking for a subliminal reason that I prefer early music to the twelve-tone system. People look at sexual fetishes as some switch that…

@avclub-cfe912f5cb3aa572bd1c9ae2a9b82207:disqus Ok, like this: http://www.nytimes.com/2012… She describes being into it for as long as she can remember, since she was a little kid, and she has no idea why. That exact experience is really common. It's a taste like other tastes. My point is that saying "I'm into this…

@twitter-344763042:disqus Dude, that's not how evolutionary psychology works, and that is literally the definition of innate, which I intended it to mean.

@avclub-cfe912f5cb3aa572bd1c9ae2a9b82207:disqus I definitely have the opposite opinion, buuuuut I don't think I'm going to say any more about my bases for thinking this.

@avclub-cfe912f5cb3aa572bd1c9ae2a9b82207:disqus Not hereditary, but that it is innate as opposed to something triggered by an event or events in your life. I didn't think this was a controversial view.

Who understands why anything is a kink? I would actually be really interested to read a study of various fetishes, their expression and purported origins. There are some people who can identify specific reasons they became interested in a particular sexual practice, but for a lot of the real "fetishes" (like, feet, or…

I read all of it. It took about a minute. I admit that I had missed the days when this column was more devoted to "freaky shit" as opposed to, like, relationship advice. Still.

No I totally agree. The Thin Mints taste awful this year. I bought 2 boxes of those and 2 of Caramel Delites and haven't brought myself to open the Caramel Delites yet. I'm so disappointed. They taste very cardboard-y. I've seriously had a sleeve left in an open box under my desk (plus the other three unopened boxes)…

Huh?

Oh man I am so excited for this. The Boy Who Couldn't Sleep And Never Had To is one of the most original and memorable books I've read in the last few years. It made such a strong impression on me. It conveyed that incredibly painful mix of nostalgia, loss and the overall sadness of becoming an adult so perfectly. (I…

I use incognito mode for almost everything I wouldn't want people to see in my browser history, but for some reason I never ever bother to put it on when I search the Craigslist personals (including at work).

I feel the same way everyone else does, but I have to admit I like the University of Chicago one, probably mostly because I went there.

Thanks and same to you! Yeah, despite being a historically healthy person, I have been really sick a lot this year (pneumonia, strep, several other antibiotic requiring things) and I think I don't really have health reserves built up yet. I'm really glad it didn't last longer.