Between my Irish mother and Italian father I have ~30 first cousins and this did hit home a bit, especially when I married someone of mostly German heritage.

I think the main reason there’s a fancy word for something is because some doctor at some point found it unusual. For example, a ‘leg fetish’ has a special word called “crurophilia” despite being a pretty standard thing to find sexy in American culture for years (check out how many media things for years focused on a…

Fair point. I’ll give my opinions on your examples just to prove your point about subjectivity. I’d say that one can’t have a “breast fetish” because breasts/nipples are erogenous zones that may be more or less sensitive in certain individuals but are nevertheless inherently sexual. That said, I’d say one could have a…

Ordinarily I like when Dan’s advice is a little kooky, but that letter invited even more questions than usual. What did he “sign up for” - if he and his wife have radically different priorities, why did they get married in the first place? Is being a “workaholic” a new thing for her? Is being upset that she’s a…

Those things would have to become a fixation rather than just a sexual interest to be considered a fetish in a clinical setting. People use fetish to describe their turn-ons the same way that neat people call themselves OCD. That’s not a perfect analogy, but...

Fuck off last LW.  Cut and uncut work because they’re simple, neutral descriptors.  The opposite of natural is unnatural, and people with circumcisions aren’t from goddamn R’yleh.

Yeah I was trying to figure out if there’s plastic surgery that’s more common for dicks these days... like “natural” means they haven’t gotten any enhancements or implants

I was assuming he’s used to ones made out of aspartame. 

100%. Though he probably should have written it in the pre-nup or vows, just to be on the safe side.

Why doesn’t BOD just say ‘uncircumcised’ if they don’t like uncut? If someone was like, “Man my boyfriend’s got a natural dick, it’s dope,” my first thought wouldn’t be “Foreskin, huh?” but rather, “...were you just on an all-dildo kick before this dude?”

Dealbreaker: volunteering to be involved in an MLM. 

Seriously, how difficult is it to say “we’re keeping it really small?”  One of my closest friends got married and told me that.  It was pretty much family only and I knew she wasn’t picking me as her maid of honor (I’d have worn that dress with pride though).  Not offended. Weddin’ ain’t cheap.  If I’d found out that…

I know, right?  Even without the “benefits” part, if I saw a friend socially, asked them “so, what’s new with you?/what’s up?”, etc, and they didn’t mention getting engaged, I’d be pretty hurt to read about it later on social media.  (actually, this really happened to me: the friend in question didn’t want to tell me…

Have I been wrong about the definition of demisexual for several years now? I thought it was someone who had zero sexual attraction to people unless they are emotionally connected to them. Like, “Idris Elba? Meh.” because they genuinely see nothing attractive about him since they don’t know him well. Is that not what…

WBE: You have a self-described “friend with benefits.” That is, someone who you consider a friend, that you also fuck. I would assume that since you see each other more than once every few months, that you are going to wind up with that person inside you sometime in the nearish future. And if not, you are still…

Is John Corbett that hot though? Maybe it’s cause I hate long hair on men but I don’t think he’s the male equivalent of Leah Remini. Though I think I must be wired wrong as a straight woman as most Hollywood leading men make me think ‘eh? That guy?’ 

Yep. I’m a Mexican in a family where virtually everyone has five kids a pop (my count: 0), so house gatherings feel like that scene from Goodfellas where Henry spends a minute just introducing all the people he ran with. I couldnt really draw a family tree in school because too many damn branches in my immediate…

I know a little bit about Indian weddings thanks to a coworker having one a couple years ago, and I think doing a movie about that accurately wouldn’t be as broadly relatable as MBFGW, it would be a uniquely fun focus for a movie if done right.

I am betting in the next few years we will see an Indian American wedding rom com set somewhere like New Jersey that does massive business.

When we were kids, of my second cousins accidentally started mingling with the wrong family reunion, one pavilion over from ours at the park, because we’d skipped making tshirts for everyone that year.