When I was in middle school, sex ed was tracing an outline of a life size person on two pieces of paper; keeping one and switching the other one with the boys group, then we had to label all the bits. My contribution to the male one was drawing a blue line across the brain and saying 70% water... I was a bit behind,…

I NEVER smiled till I was 17... that's why braces were invented, to stop young girls from flashing those immoral teeth, and tongues! My god, so scandalous, I'm having vapors at the mere thought..

(This was supposed to be short, sorry! I had memories I felt the need to add to the discussion as I was typing)

Me too! I'm so glad I wasn't the only one... all the 'late bloomer; 14, 15' comments happened when I was at school and it was always so awkward because everyone knew, well, assumed right(very small school) that because I was tall and skinny with no boobs that I hadn't gotten it yet. Puberty hit just before 17; and…

That sucks. I know lots of women don't like it because of the lack of eye contact, or they feel it isn't a respectful position, which is unfortunate. And then sometimes bits just don't work that way.

Not really; I grew up in a desert town (actual desert, not the texas variety) I suffered second degree burns after 4 hours sunscreenless because I lost it once. So all the kids had it, it was crucial for some of our survivals, a day in that tsun unprotected could have killed us. It was a common thing, always around,…

Yeah, me and my siblings got the stranger talk about men AND women. If any woman had grabbed at me like that as a child I would have started screaming "NO DONT TOUCH ME THERE YOU CANT TOUCH ME THERE HELP"... see how 'irresistible' they are to you when that happens...

Just on that point; make up can take sizes off. I'm a former dancer, and for shoots, performing under lights and video we have different make up on the face AND body. Depending on the type of dancer you are (I didn't do exotic, but don't have anything against it) you can take off the waist, add to the boobs and hips…

They did an interview recently where they explained that it was a message for all of the young teen girls who were having sex and winding up with diseases because they were so young and not gay men, no one thought to warn them or they didn't think it was applicable to them. As the other commenters have said, it seems…

Her behaviour, what? Running a multi million dollar business, herself as the product, while still having the time/energy to maintain a body that she is probably extremely proud of and still recording/singing/performing? If that's the behaviour of a shallow middle school mean girl, no wonder they teased me, I must've…

Aren't her performances of her experience honest though? I mean, I perform a range of sexxxy songs sometimes up to and including suicidal songs other times, to talk about my experiences of loving an abuser. I wouldn't be able to truly sing anything else. And I see that reflected a lot in Ri's lyrics; by all reports…

I feel really bad about those comments, because they were my new love after yesterday doing a countdown of their most influential black artists on an Aussie talk/news program with little singing accompaniments and re telling where/how they first felt. And it was a really sex positive interview too! All 'we (black…

I don't think this will get seen this late in the day, but hopefully you, the author will see this, and know that I have read every single comment and am personally as disappointed in this as I would be if you were shaming women for their vaginas. Think of the pain and anger you feel when you are personally shamed or…

Please please don't be sad. I'm not even a 'giving lover because of it' person, I'm a 'my ex left me because the shortness of my vagina was dissatisfying enough to him that he couldn't come' person. I don't know if you're single or not, and I left a longer comment to someone further up, but it is the one thing…

Just randomly, my feet are long and narrow, so I always have toes sticking out of my sandals, otherwise their too floppy. I didn't realise this was a toe length thing, maybe if I go a half size up on sandals you can adjust the horizontal straps on, I'll get a better fit. Thanks for the random info, its a whole new…

Don't be sad, doggy style is the bomb! And reverse cowgirl, and the wheelbarrow, and... um sorry, got overzealous. But yes, there are many positions that would beat out missionary if I came across that.

I think he made a good point about how what for women we may consider harmless comments can actually be hurtful and shaming to some people; it's important to present that side, that's what the comments are for.

I feel like I've seen Lindy say something about how it's just as bad as other shaming? Here on an article, a comment or somewhere else on the webz? It surprises me other writers do, and that no ones called them on it publicly till now. It seems like a very odd thing for a site against using female body parts as cuss…

I was just reading through this thread, wasn't going to comment but I saw this comment and it struck me pretty hard, and I just wanted to jump in and say I'm really really sorry for what pain you've had, and what thoughtless comments were directed at you (or your vicinity). I really truly hated sex when I first…

Oh My Goodness, the fact Hildebrand is our most hard hitting journalist (and not actually hard hitting) and he's a comedian causes me all kinds of rage at our country. Everyone knows as a country we have racial issues, yet no one wants to admit that they're part of the problem. So frustrating.