Totally. That all makes sense.

No they don’t, and that is a good question. It would be interesting to see if convicted child molesters have the same sexual response to youngish looking adults pretending to be children as they do to actual children. It could be done, but the ethical challenges are considerable. You’d have to measure arousal (easy…

I mentioned elsewhere but there have been longitudinal studies that show that consumption of child pornography is linked to higher rates of recidivism amongst convicted child molesters, but its not been demonstrated conclusively that people who watch child pornography are X% more likely to abuse children than the…

I was just saying elsewhere that this is where I start to get confused about my own position on it. I have seen arguments made that watching something online/fantasizing, etc. is a safe way to express anti-social desires without acting on them, so in a way simulated rape videos are a social good. I have also seen the…

Someone else said it up above but I feel like a meaningful distinction can and should be made between ‘submission’ fantasies and ‘simulated rape’. I’m not sure yet that I have a normative position on the later - in the sense that I haven’t worked out how I feel about simulated rape - but I do think there is a…

Upside: student price movie tickets 4-lyfe!

Ha!!! Omg I just googled it and the age limit is 18. I mean, I’m flattered, but I suspect its just the fact that I’ve recently developed raging hormonal acne that confused her.

Happy Birthday!!! I got carded recently buying superglue in the UK. I’m 30. I didn’t even know there was an AGE LIMIT for superglue.

My sentiments exactly.

Like, a guttural verbal response. I don’t really have an issue with either of them - that’s why I’m saying I’m surprised. I didn’t know I had an opinion on their coupling but something about the idea made me make the sound I usually only make when I walk into a dirty public toilet :(

I rarely, rarely find myself reacting to these things - but that item forced an ‘ew’ out of me I didn’t know I had.

Oh totally. Now in my 30th year, I actually am slightly more invested in the adult story lines. Poor, misunderstood Patty.

I realize most Jezzies are singing this same tune but, honestly - the cognitive dissonance is ASTOUNDING. So far this year we’ve had 600+ gun deaths - of children. Not killing burglars, not interpersonal altercations, not ‘thugs’ killing other ‘thugs’ - children. Fucking children. So yeah, the loss of life that night…

Just looking at this picture makes me feel homesick for a life I FELT I was living through Angela. Holy god that show was so, so meaningful to me as a teen.

This is it exactly. Its very easy to sit behind a keyboard in Washington DC, typing about how a middle-class family in Houston are monsters for not carrying about Beirut. However, that middle-class family is much more likely to have family and friends in France, or have visited Paris - precisely because it hasn’t been…

I have lived in both Burundi and Beirut. I’ve been posting about both and have made panicked calls to friends several times in the last weeks. It is precicely because of ongoing violence that I have been posted to these locations - I work on conflict and peace building. These ongoing conflicts are part of the reason…

Lewinsky/Schilling.

But its not just the squint.. there is a lip difference, too! I’ve never noticed it before so I wonder if maybe its ‘work’ thing?

Put your thumb over one half of her face, and then the other. It’s like two entirely different people and I can’t understand what is happening.

I started having it done about three times a year, two years ago. It makes my makeup routine much simpler because I have a smooth surface to work on. I have never been to a doctor who would agree to freeze everything fully. Every doc I know is very careful to make sure you keep movement and character - i.e. leaving…