right? if being pregnant is too time consuming (plus taking maternity leave etc) then freezing eggs will not be that much different.

so the whole being 30 and having kids....is this like hard scientific stuff or just stuff that keeps getting repeated over and over? I feel like I haven't come across actual scientific (quality) studies on this thing. I just keep hearing it everywhere. And it feels like every time people keep saying that you have to…

please! that's for peasants!

this thread made me laugh! not like the boring lol. actually real life laugh :)

exactly!

okay people! quit taunting this as if it works perfectly! who knows it may not work!

what? I'm going to have to google!
it doesn't as much anymore if I am relaxed and there's been enough foreplay but I still need to look into it. I think it's odd that this happens.

It's important for me because I've never understood it so well until I read that line.

This is probably the best way to understand cultural appropriation:

wow, I'm struck by how normal this seemed to us when I lived in Mexico. We watched this kind of stuff all the time. No wonder family abuse exists and people don't recognize it as such because it's normalized left and right.

I am so tired sometimes. I have been doing the 5 minute showers (thinking "just today") for far too long. I need to change my mentality and see the pampering and investing in myself as essential. If I don't have enough self love (which can be part of my problem) the thing that gets me to do stuff for myself and put it…

oh! flood me with links!

I grew up with sex in a shameful light. I am unsure if I was sexually abused. Whatever - story for another day.

Give me a link to your stories and I'll start there :)

I can't have him use it on me because he's kinda clumsy. But I have noticed that reading (not so much watching) erotic material helps tremendously. I mean, I don't even need to masturbate. My whole day just goes to another level and I feel like I am in touch with myself more. Like right now, I didn't sleep great and I…

ugh I love you. At the very least normalizing the conversation as if you're talking about tooth brushing, how to deal with zits, nurturing your body through food/exercise/etc. will go a long ways!

uh, trust me. There were a lot of us that barely discovered anything about our bodies until later on.

I took that line as real women who live in the real world and deal with real life....they need this as they need coffee/meditation/exercise to get through the day.

I was thinking that. Or it could also be that you and I (I deal with the same thing) derive pleasure and everything by mental, emotional, and physical stimulation that is all around but not directly in the genitals.

confession, I can't get into it. I don't know how to do it right. My husband joked that he'd get online and find a masturbation class and sign me up for it.
In the beginning it was about me not getting into it unless my husband's body (skin, smell, warmth) was involved. Now, I can definitely make myself feel good but…