I’m an expat too! It’s getting to the point where I just don’t read beyond headlines anymore because I know what the story is going to be. That guy that claimed—successfully!— he had “sexsomnia” was the last straw for me.

Probably forever in the grays, but I’ll give it a shot.

Sweden has absolutely absurd laws in regards to sexual assault and a really bad history of failing women in recent years. Until someone is convicted of a specific sort of assault, then it’s basically impossible to get a judge to convict for it. A couple years ago,…

DUDE, I got one (hopefully this is the story that gets me out of the greys!)

I know I’ve talked about this before, but my first crotch fruit was born in a US hospital along with all the “standard” stuff, epidural etc. Second sprog popped out of my baby snout in a Swedish hospital, and it was like night and day. In Sweden, you see a midwife, period, unless you have some kind of horrible…

Honestly, it was kind of worth it.

Man I am late to this party, but BOY do I have one for y’all to consider.

I can kind of see it, yeah. Something about her cheeks/smile, IMO.

True, but it’s just my general experience, and that of many others, that 8 hours/day isn’t effective like...at all. You might notice a subtle change, but that will likely be because it restricts your appetite.

I can’t speak about this particular thing (which just seems like glorified Spanx?), but if you seriously want to waist-train with a corset, it takes 23hrs of wear at the early stages. You can usually decrease after the first couple months, depending on your body.

Ehhhh 8 hours is really not sufficient, especially at the beginning. I’ve trained off and on for about 15 years now, and I’m here to tell you that won’t make a difference.

What I want to know is, where is the guy getting all this money to do all this hunting all over the world? I mean, he’s a dentist in a relatively small town, not like he’s a surgeon or something. Feels like someone should do some looking into that too.

I’m kind of in a similar situation tbh—I met and spoke with him, and he was just so...benign in person. Years later when I was watching the Parks and Rec episodes with Bobby Newport, I was like, “OMG that is exactly how it felt talking to W.” Except W. kept butterscotches in his pocket. I still think he was a human…

Frankly, I don’t. I have zero tolerance for strange men and their stupidity at this point in my life, which is exhausting. I have a list of maybe 3 men in the whole world that I’m okay with touching me. Being in public is just so tiring because I feel constantly vigilant, not just for me but for all the women around…

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AYYYYYY Osiyo girl! Another Jez NDN, omg it’s like a unicorn in the wild!

YES. It’s always guys too, BIG SURPRISE THERE—we’ll be at the park with the kids, some man comes ambling by, and just whips it out. I hate it, but I also am working hard on not spewing my American outrage all over everything all the time. Swedes are really open with nudity, and they also pretend no one else exists in…

They basically don’t exist. They’re like spotting unicorns in the wild. You also have to pay to use them, and they only accept cash which is BEYOND stupid because Sweden wants to be the first cashless country in the world, so no one carries cash and stores don’t give out change. There is literally 1 bathroom in the…

There basically aren’t public bathrooms here. :/ There’s a couple dotted around, but you have to pay (cash only in a country that has been very vocal about wanting to be the first cashless country in the world, WHAT IS LOGIC). I just worry that something will go hinky with it, and then I’ll have nowhere to fix it. I…

Really? I thought it wasn’t supposed to be left in that long, like it would damage it or something? Might have to give it more thought then.

I REALLY REALLY want to try a cup, but the public bathroom situation in Sweden is so damn stupid—I’m not sure if I can/should leave it in literally all day if we’re out and about.