Thanks!! I'm really excited to be through it, and my son came out beautifully after it all. He's a genuine little cherub :)

I loved that show and its followup at 8:30 Family Ties. I so wish the writers had done a crossover with the Huxtables and Keatons with the parents drinking beer together at Cheers. Greatest fantasy episode ever.

I think that this is one of the strangest (albeit perhaps inevitable?) outcomes of widely available contraception and the notion that parenthood can be a choice, rather than a religious or societal duty. My grandparents' generation seems so different. I remember my dad talking about how nobody used to talk about how…

This whole thread is freaking delightful.

I'm not freaked out by this, it just ain't my thing. I think that's what most people are expressing here.

I like being the asshole who plays this game with men when I hear them use the word slut or ho or thot. If I'm feeling feisty I'll go "what IS a slut though?" They'll say "A girl who sleeps around." "what do you mean by 'sleeps around'?" "Someone who has a lot of partners." "Like how many?" etc etc. Usually they…

Thanks for adding this. That's something I hadn't thought of, but it's another thing to add to the list of things I want to teach my daughter (she's only two, so luckily I've got years to think about it all).

"Slut" is such an odd word. It has no agreed-upon definition. It's almost meaningless. It's like trying to define the slang use of the word "cool". Try to define it without relying on the word itself. Or "thing". Of course, "thing" is a very important word (try to describe a thing without saying thing—see what I did…

I have to have an alarm go off every day reminding me to take the pill. Even then, I would sometimes forget. This IUD is going to be The Best. I'm super nervous about the insertion, but my dr insists it's like a Pap smear and she always has teenage patients getting them and they're all like, "That was it?!" I'm so…

I slept with one guy all my life. I was and am in love with him. And I never even used the word slut once. I didn't even secretly think of someone as a slut. Not now, not when I was 13. My best friend had a lot of sex with a lot of people. I didn't. I wasn't saving myself for anything. It just worked out that way.…

As an unrepentant former slut, I think the problem (albeit one that comes from a loving, protective impulse) is to think that we can protect our kids from the mistakes we made.

I use both. Is that okay? Typically I'll use "umm" before a sentence if I'm thinking or stalling. I'll use "uh" in the middle of a sentence if I get a brain fart over a word or name.

I had no interest in men/penis/sex growing up and I kept being told that if I kissed or slept with various men I'd eventually find one I did like. Stupid me listened to this advice. So my advice to my kids "Don't listen to your friends, do what you want to do and nothing more. If you're not sure, give yourself some…

My mother's advice was that I should ride a few stallions before I pick one. I think she was slightly bummed when I married the only stallion I'd ever ridden.

I don't know why every generation seems to think they invented kink. Maybe because they refuse to consider the idea that their parents and grandparents might have been into it.

It is funny, isn't it? People in their 70s were in there 20s during the "sexual revolution" of the 1960s. They didn't forget about sex when their hair turned grey.

That emoticon just screams "knows how to please a lady."

Like, her first paragraph is a lot more negative than anything I'd ever put on my profile, but after getting 20+ messages a day that are just "hey" or "omg ur so hot!!!!!!!" or "wow ur titties r amazing!!!!!", it gets pretty exhausting (and defeating. You find yourself just accepting you'll either be forever alone or…

I get the distinct impression that this woman has been on OKCupid for a while, has grown immensely frustrated with the quality of messages and dates and dates that threaten to happen but never do, and has thus decided to just lay it all bare in one massive spew. The better course of action would be to deactivate her…

Oh absolutely. In fact a miscarriage is medically known as a spontaneous abortion. I think in some ways that the term abortion is purposely only used in the way it typically is in order to help vilify it. To give it any credit as a life saving procedure makes it harder to malign it. I mean, this article supports my…