It looks like an average girl wearing a fashion “swimsuit” designed for highly above average women.

It is not anti-feminist to suggest that women evolve more deeply into truly knowing ourselves as we age. You will likely find that indisputable in 20 years.

1) The “brainwashed” comment came from ERW herself.

1) Your only focus is to force me into accepting violence against women.

As an older man, just about person, especially an older one, asking or wanting to do BDSM things with a much younger person is automatically suspect. My life is pretty vanilla, but it’s important to recognize that age differences are profound power dynamic differences in relationships. Raping someone isn’t a kink.

Yes, please let’s not let this discussion devolve into kink-shaming. Manson is not a BDSM practioner of any kind. He’s a violent abusive whackjob. Period. EVR was not an informed, consenting partner, she was the victim of multiple crimes. There is no blurred line here.

I think that discounts the naivity that comes with being a teenager/VERY YOUNG adult, and the level of manipulation coming from the older person. At 40 I am horrified by what I “allowed” to happen to me in my 20's, and I wouldn’t have realized this until I watched friends/ read news stories where the outcomes were…

I’ve been working in mental health for over 25 years. Only 3-4 times have I ever been frightened by a client. One was a man I was doing an intake on at my very first job, 3rd shift at a psych hospital. I worked alone on the first floor, with the staff and patients on the second. I can’t even remember what the guy…

YIKES! Stories about haunted forests are intriguing and super scary how they seem to have a life of their own and their own energy. Good thing these trees wanted to keep you out rather than draw you in. A few years ago, there was a story about cousins hiking deep into the forest and something trying to draw them in as…

Super late but oh well. I didn’t even remember this story til I was reading through and some of the others reminded me. This happened when I was in college, in a small town in PA, pretty out in the boondocks.

Got it. I’m just here to say that said I FIGURED he was schizophrenic, based on his paranoia, the way he described receiving shots as medication with is a common way to treat that illness, NOT that he for sure was schizophrenic and that I was officially diagnosing him in my capacity as a year one real estate agent. I…

I’m not sure I’ll make it out of the grays, and if I do this post will get buried, but I still want to share. This isn’t my own story. It’s my late grandmother’s, and I remember her telling it to me only once when I was a kid. It scared the hell out of me then and it scares me even more as an adult.

Hi! I worked as a tech in a psych ward for 6 years. I can’t tell you how many men and women I’ve seen violent as all get out coming in and sweet as pie on the way out after proper treatment. It seems like this guy was both ill and dangerous. He was threatening the story teller. He mentioned himself that he had shots…

This story isn’t nearly as scary as others here, but it still creeps me out when I think about it.

A few years ago my daughter was taking skiing lessons at a place in the Shenandoah Valley about 90 minutes west of where we live (if you live in the area, you probably know where I’m talking about). You could get there…

I love this one!

Absolutely no part of this story is exaggerated, and I still don’t know what to make of it. Until I was five, I was raised in a teeny tiny town. My small neighborhood was more like a compound, where all of the people who worked in the clinic next door lived. There was a big garden in the middle of the neighborhood…

Several years ago, I lived on the first floor of an old triple decker. I shared the place with several roommates and things were usually pretty normal. We did have ghosts, but THAT seemed normal after awhile too for some reason. Plates rattling? Just the ghosts. Something not where you left it? Ghosts.

This happened in November last year. The only positive I have been able to take away from it is that I finally have something for this story contest, because I definitely cannot afford to move!

I don’t think it would last very long. No one wants my advice in real life because doing the right thing is fucking hard.

You’re wife didn’t bring it up again because she wants to know more. She wants to know if you’re trustworthy, and she thinks more information will help her know for sure.