Yet in this very thread, brightstar100 referred to purity as synonymous with virginity:

Sexual liberation and sex positivity should absolutely include those for whom liberation means feeling less pressure to have sex. Maybe I don't hear it because I'm on the other side of virginity now and have been for some time, but I don't really see a whole lot of virgin-shaming from feminism; I see a lot of distaste…

I worked in a bookstore — a bookstore! — and had to clean up almost every bodily fluid and solid you can name. Poop, pee and puke in the children's section is a given, but on more than one occasion, I also had to clean droplets of menstrual blood off the floor, and there was one frequent visitor who seemed to have a…

I couldn't agree with you more on wanting to like Lena Dunham. I watched the first season of Girls and kept pulling for it to be so much better than it was for me. I even re-watched a couple of episodes to see if there was something I missed. Nope. All I saw was a group of tremendously self-absorbed and cosseted…

"Not a single woman isn't guilty of this?" Really? I'm almost always ready to go before my husband is, and if I say I'll be five minutes, I'll be five minutes. I even wear makeup occasionally, but I've gotten my day face down to a science.

The plenty-of-sex = loose vagina thing absolutely infuriates me.

The problem is more with the fact that the corresponding use of "males" as a noun almost never occurs. Men are men, guys or if they're young, boys. It's rare to hear someone talk about "the males in my office" or "oh, that's just the way males behave" or "I just don't understand males." You may have even heard someone…

I thought about giving this one a try, but between the commercials that make me cry like a fool and the fact that True Detective AND Cosmos are both on tonight, I'm not sure I can handle it. I guess there's room on my DVR, but I don't know if I have enough Kleenex to get through an episode.

I have no problem with that; I'm never in tabloids, and I was told if I Googled myself too much, I'd go blind. For celebrities, though, it has to be wildly different, something they really can't escape. I cannot imagine how much it would suck to walk into a drugstore and see my body with a black bar over my face and a…

Was I the only person who read about Kesha's efforts to "get rid of the negative people in her life who contributed to the problems that led to her eating disorder" and thought about all the shitty tabloid press hounding her about how she looked in a bikini? How do you cut out those negative people when they're…

If you could stand Listerine for 20 minutes straight, you might be Bender. I'm not sure anyone not made of metal could withstand that.

Yeah, I think it's more that relying on a home remedy instead of getting the underlying disease checked out and eradicated by a professional is what would do the damage, not the oil.

I totally get that you were trying it for a column and that the program came with yoga classes, but when I saw your four-day program cost almost a month's worth of actual groceries for my two-person household, I was astonished.

When I saw those views of Seyda Neen and especially Balmora, the place I always make my base of operations, I felt as though I was coming home. This time, though, I was coming home while wearing my glasses, so everything looked fresh and gorgeous.

Yeah, I know what you mean. Sometimes even the most endearing person in the universe just needs to go the hell away for a little while so you can appreciate them again. :)

Or possibly a fan of the idea that people can like more than one talented young actress at a time.

The world doesn't work that way. It isn't a zero-sum game; if it were, there would have been no room for Rowling with Stephen King, Dan Brown, Cormac McCarthy and other best-selling authors already hogging up all the resources. Someone who writes something spectacular — or at least something that taps into an…

At the risk of sounding Polyannaish, we also have virtually instantaneous communication around the globe, GPS technology, translation software that lets us cross language barriers, weather satellites, access to the world's libraries from just about anywhere, entire industries that would have been unimaginable half a…

There's nothing to explain. You've spent the last three years of your life wearing a friend mask and hanging around an unsuspecting woman whom you openly say you never wanted to be friends with in the first place, you seem to think there's some way to convert "no" to "yes" if you press the right combination on her…

That probably has more to do with Madonna's plastic surgery. A company that wants someone as its face probably wants that face to stay more or less the same for a while. Lange has had some work done too, I'd hazard a guess, but unfortunately for Madonna, she's unrecognizable from some angles.