I am so impressed by Elizabeth Smart and thankful for her advocacy. I have used her quote about the chewed gum metaphor (used in abstinence only “sex ed” classes) in my victimology and juvenile delinquency classes (when we talk about the impact of adverse childhood experiences) to explain why we need age appropriate…

Read some undercover account of where these poor kids come from. Turns out, many of them were born into it. Pedophiles apparently meet and knock each other up with the intention of birthing children they can then rape or pimp out.

It makes me First Degree Murdery. My aunt was married to a guy who is still doing time for kiddie porn (he was grooming his daughter in the process as well.) I hate him. I mean I genuinely hate him in that I want him dead. I wouldn’t piss on him if he were on fire, shit, I’d make s’mores I hate him so. When he finally…

i also really respect - as a fellow ex-mormon - that she doesn’t shy away from saying that the church fucked her up. i like that she calls out specific behaviors and dialogues and people who told her the wrong things. i’m impressed she does it with as much gentleness and dignity as she does.

Forgive me if I’ve mentioned this here before, but: I met her once, briefly, and not only is she an amazing human being, but she’s the only person I’ve ever seen in real life with a radiance around her, like she stepped out of a Renaissance painting of a saint or something.

Utah is where old weird British accents, much reduced today thanks to radio and television, went. Older Utahns say “fark” for “fork”; this probably is because a very large portion of 19th-century Mormon converts were from North Yorkshire—pronounced by locals as “Narth Yarkshire.”

I love that she is using her experience to comment and constructively criticize the rape culture we have all around us. She is SO bright and thoughtful, and I really am inspired by the way she took something so terrible in her life and is using it to help other people. I believe she can make a difference in the way…

I respect her so much. She has some very biting things to say about purity culture in general and it is wonderful.

I don’t like the line of reasoning that this is no different from publicly identifying as LGBTQ. Everything in <— that acronym is a human identifier. I don’t ... I don’t think society has to acknowledge kinks in public. Gender and sexual identity aren’t kinks. No one has a real “canine identity.” If you don’t know…

No, it doesn’t. A human cannot identify as a dog. We do not have the hormonal or sensory triggers that a dog has. Our brains are not comparable to a canine’s. Dogs have instincts utterly dissimilar to the ones hardwired into a human. You can “feel” like a dog, just like someone can “feel” that they’re really God, or…

“Dog” is not a human gender identity. I don’t think the matter needs elaboration beyond that point.

Agree. I know people who LARP, but if my friend told me she was going to spend a portion of each day realizing her half-elf mage identity, I would be genuinely concerned for her. I know a guy who’s way into cosplay, and even belongs to some elite Storm Trooper squadron that visits children’s hospitals and stuff. But…

I didn’t meant to offend and if I did, I say hi in Canadian.

Maybe this is an unpopular opinion here, but I refuse to acknowledge “kink” as a sexual orientation.

This reminded me of the adult babies, too. I understand the need to unwind and chill out, but having to adopt a non-adult / non-human persona to be able to achieve relaxation strikes me as, again, not entirely healthy.

Yeah, that seems similar to the diaper fetishist kink where there’s this desire to abstain from the responsibility of the adult human identity. Just go to therapy and grow up.

“Then I had this moment of panic because a puppy without a collar is a stray; they don’t have anyone to look after them. [...] It’s a sad thing to say, but there’s not love from the heart in me for Colin–but what I have got is someone who is there for me and I’m happy with that.”

This doesn’t sound super healthy? If…

Yeah, that was “holy shit fuck no” territory. Got no issue with people’s private kinks (shit, I domme a guy who is into this soooo) but that is fucking disgusting and I would have a hard time not resorting to fisticuffs if some jackass stranger or coworker “nipped” my shirt. Boundaries, learn them.

Far be it from me to tell consenting adults what to do, but whenever I read about stuff like this I always wonder, how do you discover that this is your kink? Do you see dogs and think, ‘that looks chill’? Because I don’t have a kink (yet) and if I am missing out on something I want to know.

yeah, don’t force other people to participate in your kink