And guess who this global system of offshoring was built by and for? American corporations! That’s who we should be throwing yogurt at. You will find me ranting a lot in the coming weeks about how tax shelters actually follow the law to the letter because they need to remain legit in order to get and keep big…

So he would have to masturbate on camera then?

Finally, a president who really speaks for the spray tan community.

Now we need subsidized childcare/preschool and at least up to a 2 year time allowance of elective maternity/paternity leave with a guarantee of getting your old job back at the end. They have this in Europe and it works great!

You WIN.

Everyone either looks like a young republican or Sophia Loren.

My real life prom was so rag tag compared to this one. Everyone is just oozing teenage affluence. I shudder to think what the interview section of this video might have contained if this had been my school.

I bet it was a pair of “mall goths”. The 90's were so thoroughly corporatized.

Sing it sister. My mom made my dress one year (it actually turned out totally fabulous), but one year I didn’t go to prom, even though I was asked, because I felt too guilty about asking my mom to spend the money on a dress. I just lied and said I didn’t want to go so that she wouldn’t feel bad.

My mom and I made my dress together (and when I say we made it “together” I mean I quickly got bored and she made it). It was a satin number with a corset top and big full skirt.

The best part of school dances was the dramatic buildup, shopping for dresses, and getting together with your friends beforehand to get ready.

I don’t think you’re crazy, but it would probably be more of an an apathy or research funding problem rather than a “conspiracy” problem. Drug companies exist to make a profit, and they need to find something they can sell in order to make back the investment on their research. Since they are much more likely to…

I agree with both of you. It feels like our culture is still evolving towards a balanced understanding of sex in which we don’t shame anyone for their sexual behaviors, we acknowledge that sex is a healthy and normal part of self fulfillment, we agree that exploratory sex is important to personal development, but…

When we have this conversation as it relates to politics, society, or women’s issues, it’s a really easy one because it’s clear that the correct position is one of sexual relativism.

I agree with what you are saying. I should add that of course casual physical encounters are a natural part of discovering one’s sexual identity, and that one is not an outlier if one enjoys a few such experiences (and, again, if this is just your thing in general then great!). It’s a natural, normal, and healthy…

I agree.

I agree. Regardless of the facts, I remember being terrified of HIV in the 90's to an irrational degree. The first question you heard when your friend hooked up with someone used to be “did you use a condom?”, followed by “you should get tested” if the answer was no, followed by weeks of meltdown and worry. I remember…

Ever since the 60's we have been asking women to adopt the traditional patriarchial standard of male sexuality, but maybe it’s not that women are too repressed to enjoy the same sexual freedom, maybe it’s that our culture’s ideal of male sexuality as the gold standard of sexual freedom is actually unfulfilling and…

Thank you Ava. I feel that too often real life sex workers and their thoughts/feelings are left out of this debate.

I want to hear a sex worker’s perspective on Femen, especially their position on sex work and their use of the nude female body.