all birth certificates are non-gender specific.

ALL OF THEM.

they list sex. stop purposefully conflating the two to make points.

I actually think this is silly and super performative on the mom’s part. Acknowledging your baby’s apparent biological sex doesn’t mean gender norms or even a gender has to be forced on them. If everything looks standard down below, as the vast majority of genitals do, you can tell what sex the kid is with great…

I don’t suppose it matters on the birth certificate, but it does seem a little foolish to just pretend sex has no relationship to health. You don’t need to force anything on a child, but that is medically necessary information regardless of what gender, if any, the child identifies with.

Okay, seriously? This is a thing now? I consider myself fairly open-minded and progressive, but...really? A consent app? It’s pretty obvious if someone is uncomfortable with something you’re doing. You just go, “Hey, you like what I’m doing?” and they’ll either say yes or no. If someone tries to get me to download an…

Yeah that is some straight up male-centered bullshit.

Wow to the “Lover’s Stitches”. Fuck that. Being super tight may feel fun for him, but it makes it much more painful for you. Crazy me, I usually find sex more pleasurable when I’m aroused and loose enough to accommodate him, rather than trying to shove a watermelon through a pinhole (as Snooki once eloquently…

“Of course we can’t judge. If you choose to do it (unlike your lover’s stitch!), and it makes you happy, go for it.”

A lot of the comments are making it sound like women are fickle creatures who just change their mind in the middle of sex sometimes. Women can have very good reason for withdrawing consent. Once I was coming down with a yeast infection and the first sign was discomfort during sex. I stopped sex, and the guy got really…

It is like telling your roommate he can treat the tv as his own and then later find out he sold it on amazon and is using your statement as justification.

Yeah, this is terrifying. This has the unmistakable stench of dudebro. And this comments section is terrifying.

fucking hell no. i can already see shitty judges saying ‘well this person consented thru the app and didnt change it so it wasnt rape’

The app is only useful for making couples who enthusiastically consent throughout the entire process feel good about themselves for doing some sort of due diligence so they can pat themselves on the back.

There are a million ways this could possibly be used against a victim. As it was stated, consent is not a one-time thing - it’s ongoing, and that’s something that not enough people understand or believe.

your living with your parents. what do you expect?

Agreed. Dismissing studies simply because of where they came from or because of who they were funded by is an exercise in intellectual laziness. If you can find something wrong with a study or with its data, then that is one thing, but simply dismissing a study outright because of its source just shows you’re too lazy…

Except that the pats of the brain that it lights up are the same parts that light up when you get a high off things like drugs or feeding an addiction like alcoholism or smoking.

Cool story bro

I love the good Dr., but he is definitely wading deeper and deeper into the Dan Savage “porn is great, everyone should be in an open relationship” territory.

Yeah his response on the porn one lacked any insight. Briefly dated (like a year or less) a couple guys who had problems with intimacy. Several were addicted to porn, others would start having trouble performing the more emotionally close we got. I had one guy tell me he was “bored” with our sex life after dating 4…

Your response to the porn question is pathetic. There have been dozens of studies done on the effects of what porn does to the mind and I’m willing to bet, nay, convinced, the reason his sex life sucks is because he has been addicted to it for two decades. He is comparing his wife to what he sees on the screen. Porn…