I’m truly sorry you are going through that.

Wow. That's not true. In Islam, rapists are killed, just like in the Bible. However, bc of misogyny and ignorance and fear, blaming rape victims became the norm worldwide

I hope you really are as understanding with her as you sound - I say that because my husband & I are discussing divorce and one of his primary reasons is because we haven’t had sex in 2 years. He’s been toxic, stonewalling & contemptuous throughout that time (and had difficulties “performing” in the years leading up…

“Christy followed the rules at camp and stuck to a one-piece swimsuit, sometimes with a T-shirt coverup to protect the boys from temptation. Her North American Baptist church wasn’t extreme “

I mean, if I remember the movie correctly, Moses did drop a third tablet.

Gah did anyone else mired in this have the friends that stuck to anal to preserve their “purity?” Not to pass too much negative judgement on anal, but when 15 year olds are rationozing sex acts that way you have to think something is awry with the system and potential end results. I always wonder how those kids fared…

I was kicked out of the Christian school I attended and was lectured by my pastor after being raped at 15. My rapist went to the same school and they allowed him to finish his senior year via correspondence classes so he could graduate with his class through the school. I wasn’t offered any such opportunity. The…

While my parents certainly had their share of challenges in their relationship before and after I came along, I’ve always been deeply grateful that they weren’t deeply religious or even very spiritual or whatever you want to call it. They were original hippies and I’m SO thankful that I was not indoctrinated with any…

As a guy, you better believe I enjoy sex but I can’t comprehend forcing your partner into appeasing your sexual appetites like this. How is that enjoyable???

it’s also “unbiblical” in the strictest sense of the word that these sorts of people use.

It cannot be understated how prevalent and powerful purity culture messaging was and is for *millions* of people in the Christian world. It’s not just the fundies. Harris’s I Kissed Dating Goodbye sold millions, but was also recommended by youth pastors and parents and passed around as a new Bible.

I’m going back and forth between being furious and feeling sick to my stomach.

It’s a shame that so many people use religion to abdicate personal responsibility. Well it was in this holy text or we got this advice from a pastor so we should just follow those precepts like robots with no critical thinking. It seems so reductive to imagine a god that wants his creation to follow hard and fast…

Taught never to refuse sex with her husband unless it was an absolute necessity, and paired with her then-husband’s demands, Christy was left submitting to what felt like obligatory sex and guilt over how miserable she felt.

I agree.  To me, “going into space” requires you going into a sustained ORBIT, and REENTRY.

Going to space should be defined as orbiting the planet.  This nonsense of just throwing a ship straight up and claiming to be an astronaut is dumb.

The X-15 was capable of this in 1959. It even had maneuvering rockets. But like others have said, going “into space” is less about going up as it is going fast. You have to be going so fast that you fling yourself off the side of the earth as fast or faster than you fall into it. The ISS is moving 17,500 mph and…

A7S3 is a dream for still photos too. I love it.

A7S3 is a dream for still photos too. I love it.