So you're saying Iranian women aren't really oppressed by Islam/religion/Iran/men? (I don't know what you mean by "etc." so I'll leave that off.) That they kinda like it and agree with it? So it's OK, and we should ignore My Stealthy Freedom and just go on our way, because they're making their choice and we should…

When I was 16, I participated in a Purity Ceremony at an AOG church my mother and I attended. My father was not a religious man, but I basically manipulated him into participating because I was going to have another man step in (one of the pastors).

The picture I took with him was NOTHING like this (he looked…

And that second one looks like the dad is staring directly down his daughter's dress at her boobs. NO!

Its also how the girls look terrified, like they know if they don't pledge dad will tear that womb out and keep it under his pillow

You just summed it up so well that it made me wanna puke.

It's the closed eyes in a couple of the portraits that get me skeezed out. WHY ARE THEIR EYES CLOSED?!?

I think it's the hands resting on the wombs that does it

I know! If you substitute the animals, this is how I pose for pics with my dad:

This is EXACTLY how I see it too. How on Earth can the mothers of these children not be like 'yeah, wait a sec.... stop.' And if not for their own child, for other children. Like, if I didn't know those men were those girls' fathers, I'd think something extremely illegal was going on here.

YUP. They totally look like child brides. AND I'm super skeeved/annoyed that anyone would ask (what looks like) an 8 year old little girl to "pledge her purity" to her father. FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE. Talk about letting a kid be a kid.

It's not just you. Just thinking of posing with my own dad this way is skeeving me out.

EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

Maybe it's just me, but all I can see are child brides in their wedding portraits. Those poses are super creepy and couple-y. Not how I looked when I posed with my dad at my wedding, or any pictures. Ergh.

As a liberal parenting atheist...

Fixed it for you.

I'm probably wierd in that I masturbated more when I was on antidepressants. I also had a lot more random sex. Maybe the lack if happy in my brain made me seek it elsewhere? I still crave sex when I have my down days, it makes me feel real instead of just numb. *shrug* I do have an abnormally high sex drive though…

Dude, when I first started to be able to actually give myself an orgasm, I once went all night long and then finally looked at the clock: it was 5am. DON'T LET THE O'S RULE YOUR LIFE!

I feel like the people who masturbate less maybe do so because they are gettin' action from a partner on the regs? I am single as fuck so I'm like a 13 year old in the shower over here.

Woah. I am a bit floored. I was traveling for work yesterday, but I would have been appalled to see that 2-3 times a week was the highest choice. Um, wow. I'm like once a day at least, 2-3 times or more when I am home for the evening or having a lazy Sunday (well, not that lazy I guess).

ALL DAY EVERY DAY! YOU CAN'T STOP ME!