I'm seeing this depressing attitude everywhere, and it's not some universal experience. I would describe mine as "very nice." Not earthshattering or transcendent, but not awkward, painful or a letdown either.

As funny as they are, I feel bad for the poor guy. My sex talk may be way more, ah, mundane than his, but shouldn't the citizens of the world do each other the mutual courtesy of allowing our erotic notes to stay as private as possible? (I live in a fantasy utopia)

That's very close to what Fastpass is.

Did nobody else see the sponsored post here on Jez just a few days ago? With the sexologist from this show talking all rosily about the process, and how it totally has so much more integrity than all those "other exploitative shows?"

I assume the mental appeal is largely that they're not porn butts, but "normal girl gone who usually wouldn't show her butt on camera" butts.

I just don't know that you need to be so intent on convincing virgins that the sex itself is going to be horrible no matter what—that just might exacerbate preexisting anxieties about the whole thing. Yeah, it probably won't be their best fairy take sex ever, but it's not necessarily a shitty rite of passage they just…

I just want to stop seeing Lois getting banged by Quagmire in front page ads—really kills the mood.

I'm into facials, and considering it's harmless, hardly think it's worth inclusion in the "modern porn is bad for women" kerfuffle. I'll concede that something way more men are into doing than women are into receiving (same as anal), and it's pretty obvious that porn has popularized it. As long as we're not talking…

Whoa, that's WAY worse than the video. Yikes.

Yeah, I think it's tone-deaf, disrespectful and very very sleazy, and I think it's a manipulatIVE stunt, but they're not being manipulatED, if that possibly makes sense. I hate to agree with anything roboposter has to say, but on that latter front, I don't think it's any worse than any number of corporate charity…

Eh, my mom (who wears the pants in the family, but is otherwise a Fox News level conservative) was the one who delivered the "break her heart, I'll break your spine" to my boyfriends. Not that it did any good.

I've given it a few tries, and I get nauseated without fail, the last of which it was responsible for my only ever incident of [repetitive] public puking. Nooooo thank you.

You're entitled to your opinion, I guess, but how is that in any way relevant to whether you should treat them kindly and with respect? Unless you're just incapable of interacting politely with ugly, funny-lookin', disabled, super-tall, super-skinny or otherwise unique-looking people, which I highly doubt?

I think it's because we're finally at a point in society where they might suffer consequences unless they keep their racism/racial "humor" to themselves, and so it annoys them that they have to "behave" and Nick doesn't.

This sounds less like the requested "cited scientific sources" to me, and more like a "kneejerk ignorant opinion." I'd far rather my hypothetical kid in her high school class than in one where the teacher publicly held back backwards beliefs such as yours.

I know it's all very silly and poppy and trying way to hard to be edgy and/or significant, but I still love seeing the over-the-top fashions and trying to copy the choreography.

I'm not familiar with the author's intentions when she wrote the book, but is it possible she never intended them to be "heroes," but popular culture just interpreted them that way, much as Romeo and Juliet have gone from being silly teenagers to the ultimate expression of romantic perfection? I just remember…

They were popping balls of paint in their mouth and spitting them onto the spinning canvas—looks nothing like vomiting. And the throat cam thing is stock footage that they flip to after putting a camera in the audience member's mouth.

Translation of supermandamned: "Do you even lift, bro?"

Yeah, I agree, and it's unfortunately probably too much to expect that he (or your average college dudebro in general) would be sensitive enough to the potential damage it could do to her to resist gossiping.