My youngest thinks it's pronounced "to china".

I've diligently spent the entirety of my motherhood teaching my kids the proper names for genitals- no cutesy terms for them. When I was growing up, there were doo-doos and dee-dees, and that was it. It was confusing, because our word for 'penis' (doo-doo) is the word most other people use for 'shit'. This lead to…

I feel like this is something that should be provided for you. You know. For work, and... science?

Not just a nipple (in the brothel), but also some blurry, semi-artistic lady arse. Still, I was pleasantly pleased at how restrained the show was in that scene.

I love-love-love that the Claire character (book and show) like sex, and that there's no 'oh, that's because she's damaged' or 'CONSEQUENCES!' reasoning…

This has happened to me and my husband before, too. It took us a while to realize what was going on, and now that we know, we are a little more careful about checking that the other person's actually awake before going forward.

Anecdotal, I know, but my MiL has been known to get up in the middle of the night, cook rather complex meals, and then go back to bed. She would have zero recollection of this the next day, and get upset with her husband, thinking he'd done it- leading to some rather strange fights. She's told of us of situations…

Five weeks ahead of my due date, I went into early labour- and it was progressing quickly. Since the hospital in my town didn't have a NICU, they decided to transport me by ambulance to a city about an hour's drive away. Lucky for me, my OBGYN had happened to be at the hospital when I arrived, so she joined me in…

I had it in for almost a year, and the pain wasn't like period or ovulation cramps. They'd sort of happen at random, during times you wouldn't expect to have cramps. Sometimes, I'd get them if I moved the wrong way, which made me feel like the IUD itself was stabbing me, or something like that. It's very hard to…

I had a copper IUD and absolutely hated it- got a lot of random, almost debilitating cramps. It was like nothing I'd ever experienced before. Had it removed, and haven't had anything like it since.

Though I will say that my experience doesn't appear to be a typical one- I've known a lot of women to have IUDs and…

My oldest son was an "antibiotics while on the pill" baby, which I hadn't even known was a thing at the time. Ultra birth control fail.

You've gotten a lot of great responses so far, but I just thought I'd add mine.

A number of years back, a guy that shared a mutual friend with me decided he was interested in me. I'd spoken to him very briefly at a party- nothing particularly remarkable about the conversation whatsoever in my mind. I wasn't attracted…

I definitely appreciated the perspective in this article. But I will agree in that this is also how I've always used the word "urban": I live in a rural community, as opposed to an urban community. (Though, I suppose there's a difference between referring to a city as 'urban', and referring to someone's style as…

My first two Christmas presents came in the mail today- though, this is VERY atypical for me. Basically, I know my kids want these particular gifts and they're a little on the pricey side (at least for us)- but they were on sale, so I ordered some with the intention of stashing them in my closet for the next few…

I just caught myself joker giggling. As in, not even my normal laugh- just this involuntary hysterical giggling because I legitimately don't know what's going on and don't care because every post is like a little orgasm covered in chocolate.

Short answer: Yes.

Longer answer: I think I need to change my underwear.

Gosh, yes. I think I started and stopped watching that show about four or five times before I finally forced myself to just suck it up and get through the first season. After that, I was completely hooked.

(This was just last year, though I'm sort of embarrassed to admit it took that long.)

I think that it's a little of column "A" and a little of column "B" at work here.

I work as a Behavior Interventionist, and one of the things I work on with clients is physical stuff (like developing fine and gross motor skills). Kids that are around preschool age often use their left and right hands pretty…

I didn't expect to be as upset about this as I am.

Oh, right, forgot about him. He sucks.

I guess I will put it this way: There's a lot about the first book that I found problematic and that made me uncomfortable. Enough so that I was hesitant continuing the series (though I chose to do so because characters like Claire don't come around too often). The first book…

I was bothered by that as well but, really, the villain is the only really negative gay character I can think of in this series (and I took his tendencies towards rape to be a reflection of the fact that he's a sadist and likes having power over strong people). Lord John Grey shows up later, is a hugely important…