Hup, Sims got out of his The Atlantic corral again. Now he'll wander the countryside doing TV Club recaps until Jeffrey Goldberg can get round him back up.

Couldn't pitch them on a full-on game show, huh, John?

That would be an embarrassing government agency to work for.

Planet Fitness has a whole broad array of TVs. My options FOX News, MSNBC, CNN, CNBC, or FOX Business, plus the channels that apparently play nothing but crime procedurals nonstop in the early evening, and HGTV. I'd rather have my eyes gouged out with hot pokers, so I mostly just plug in my music and stare into the…

No, actually, I'd be much happier for my gf to get laid on the side and her sex drive to pick up as a result.

Planet Fitness doesn't blast any music over the PA, but their in-house TV channel is lousy with it.

One of these ladies I and my gf have been communicating with is going to want a threesome, I wish.

Oh, 100% agree there, that's why I put "I identify as a straight man" rather than the unqualified "I'm a straight guy." But I mean, if someone was selling Stephen Amell on a salmon ladder, I wouldn't run into the store shouting, "I'll take two!" It'd be more of a "well, I'll have to take a look at my budget and see if…

Would you mind saying what subject is? Unless it's something incredible specific, like "Turtle Genitalia Studies" I don't think you're going to get outed, and playing coy here is going to effect the quality of the advice you get.

I dunno that I would conceive of this exchange in the same way you are. All you know is that you had a conversation and then it stopped for a few months, right?

I definitely think a huge part of it is the idea that your partner is sexually active above and beyond what you can provide.

I think there's also a racial tinge to the alt-right's conception of it, as well.

I dunno. I think in any relationship you're allowed to have boundaries.

reddit circa Ellen Pao's tenure.

I read r/relationships and r/JustNoMIL religiously because the drama, you guys. The drama.

I don't think she's pissed, I just think she's witty and sarcastic, and it got lost in translation. She sounds like my kind of gal.

It's also a little borked in that that liberation is at the behest of the male partner.

I get it, though I would say it qualifies low on my scale of things I find sexy. I identify as a straight man, and I'd put it up along with "Stephen Amell on a salmon ladder" level of arousal. I'm not gonna go "ew, yuck" and leave the room like some other things (I'm looking at you, sounding) but I wouldn't…

Maybe it's the Yankee in me, but I've been taught/learned/observed that there's no feeling or secret so big you can't bury it forever if you try hard enough. The only time it would ever come out would be in a ball of emotion so large you'd keel over immediately after, which would also solve your problem.

I think the assumption on the "don't tell about a one-time thing" is that it's unlikely to come out in the short term, and 5, 10, 20 years down the road, you'll have built a functioning relationship that, should it be revealed, you can explain away as a one-time thing that you immediately regretted and didn't want to…