What I haven’t seen a lot of helpful literature on, though, is what to do once a diagnosis is received. I hope you provide, in true Lifehacker form, a list of steps to try (fingers, egg/small vibrator, etc.) and an emphasis on the importance of arousal, comfort, and lubrication.

Being ‘too tight’ for sex is an extremely important issue for some. The great Melissa A. Fabello recently addressed the misconceptions surrounding it. I wish I had seen her article two years ago.

For the first three episodes of Serial, I was under the mistaken impression that the whole thing was fictional. At every turn, I thought there was going to be some insane, dramatic twist. Then I found out it was a true story, and the magic was suddenly gone.

If it helps, there’s such a thing as the Upper South, which includes Fort Smith, AR, the subject of this article. I didn’t even know that until today, so, kudos for helping me learn something.

I’ve never heard of Arkansas being included. Wikipedia agrees that it usually isn’t.

The local news has been covering all the people getting washed off bridges or forced from their homes :( Makes me feel lucky to be up here in northwest Arkansas, where the worst of it has been a few high-water creeks.

Thanks for the nice reply! Made me feel a lot better.

It may have felt good for you to write it, but for me, it was yet another jab that made me (as a religious person) feel very unwelcome here. I come for the sci-fi and psychology and cool discussions, but barely a day goes by that I don’t see bigotry in io9’s comments, on articles that have nothing to do with religion.

I know for sure that some of what I’ve experienced in the past is auditory pareidolia. I dread hotel rooms, and a particular local hallway with a white noise machine, because I always hear distant voices talking about me in angry tones.

I heard the news today and was very sad. I’ve only read one of her books, but it influenced me quite a bit. It’s not every day you can point at something and say, ‘this is the reason for my fetish’. Google tells me that loads of her works dealt with the same subject matter, so now I’ll always regret not contacting her…

Sorry, posted as a reply to you instead of to the article. But while we’re here, do you have a deviantart or do commissions?

Hours later, their memorial is up.

Wait, Tanith Lee is dead? (checks Wikipedia) (starts crying)

This method of persuasion should definitely not be discounted. The best way to bring people around to your way of thinking, and to tolerance of your lifestyle or beliefs, is to be kind, patient, honest, and well-spoken/educated. If those who disagree come to see you as a person, they’ll think twice about judging you —…

So glad someone else thought of this. I know it through the Rifftrax.

To elaborate on Chris Hadfield’s memoir, An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth: I especially appreciated the part about how NASA makes contingency plans in the event of an astronaut’s death:

My now-husband and I waited until we were married, and we’re glad we have that exclusivity.

I also just noticed that the links sent to Pocket have no title; they appear in my Firefox Pocket plugin with the URL as the title. Not sure what part of the API affects that, or whether the Firefox plugin displays something different from the web interface, but figured you would want to know!

I’ve been using the aforementioned IFTTT recipe, but would like to not have to deal with marking my feedly IFTTT folder ‘read’, so this might be a good way to separate the two.

http://groovebackup.com/