I've heard of a one-armed paper hanger... "busier than a one armed paper hanger." But left armed, hmm... not as busy as a one armed one, but still kinda busy?

Very interesting! I mean obviously guys like to pull out and ejaculate sometimes, but to have to do it every time... and to be worried about accidental pregnancy (well, presumably, one hopes) while doing it... oh well... Or maybe they just hate condoms that much! Clearly, more research is indicated ;)

Are men really enjoying using withdrawal? Having to worry about pulling out just before you come seems a bit stressful. But all I know about it is from novels, set in a time when it was the only form of birth control. Nobody seemed to recall it fondly.

It seems to me that the diaphragm has completely disappeared from the birth control spectrum. I wonder why? Research always gave it a very good prevention rate "when used correctly", and it was my sole method for many years. Is it because women don't want to touch themselves? Has it just kind of been replaced by the…

Oh, I am sure that's it then! It was a side effect I had never heard of, but when I told my doctor she was like, "oh, yeah, that happens." I did not go back on the pill, and honestly I think it took 3 or 4 months to go back to normal, but it totally went back to normal. Hair goes thru growth cycles, and at any given…

I'm an introvert, and it is an ongoing challenge to negotiate my alone time with my boyfriend. I've explained how I am, and he says he understands — he does understand, at least in theory — and most of the time we manage it, but there are still times when he's hurt by it. And that makes me feel terrible, and then I…

You didn't by any chance go off birth control recently? When I went off the pill my hair started falling out because, I found out later, my body had stopped making its own estrogen while I was on the pill and it took a while to kick back in.

People who are volatile can flip out over any kind of trigger. This happened to take place in a school so it becomes a story about dress code violations. If it happened in McDonalds it could be a story about fast food, and if it's in a car of course it's a road rage incident. But really, it's just that angry people…

I can't stand the expression "hater." It ends up being a simple-minded way to dismiss criticism, and discourage critical thinking. The term wasn't around when I was young, but I got called "negative" a LOT. What I see now is that I did tend to speak up about the things I saw as problems, and keep quiet about the…

My friend found a stray cat while we were camping. She'd never owned a cat before and knew nothing about them, and she wanted to bring it home. Cat Expert Me gave her this long set of warnings and advice about how to travel with a cat and how hard it would be. That cat turned out to be the most relaxed travellin' cat…

"Would Princess Diana do this? Would she act like everything was Hunky-Dory while her husband was ordering his military to shoot unarmed protesters?"

Aaaah, that looks like my grad dress! Or shall we say, how I imagined my grad dress looked.

Oh my god, Loves Baby Soft! And they had a Fresh Rain and some kind of lemon version too. I loved them all! And then in my late teens when I got fancy I went through a White Shoulders phase. Soooo sweet, but I thought it was classy!

I find it interesting that my tastes in fragrance have chanced pretty much on-track with the conventional wisdom. In my 20s I wore straight-up florals: lily of the valley, rose, and super sweet stuff like vanilla. In my 30s I gravitated to citrus like Clinique Happy, and the green scents. And then in my 40s I started…

The reycling site I googled says: spines of hardcover books generally contain a lot of glue and cannot be recycled. Simply remove and discard the cover and the spine prior to placing in your mixed waste paper bin.

But how are their underbutts looking?

So true. Between the foreign students and the yoga girls and the yummy mummies ... I have to come to Jezebel to be reminded of what the average North American female really looks like!

You got it!

As I understand it, that's exactly right. Your skin is loosening and not holding everything in as tightly-packed.

I know. I can't wait for them to go away. But they won't go away (nor will leggins) until tall boots go away because you can't tuck bootcuts into boots. It's all this terrible cascade. I like skinny jeans in tall boots, but you can't wear tall boots every damn day.