If it takes a whole for the viral load to be evident in tests than it would also take a while for it to be contagious. Even in Texas, where the Dallas victim was traipsing around town for days after he developed a fever and the nurse was on a plane with a low fever, the only people who caught it were the people who…

I have to admit I have been judgmental of women who have baby voices - that high-pitched, upper back of the throat sound seems so at odds with being a grown-up. I was surprised to find out that many men are attracted by it (what I don't know about men could fill an encyclopedia). And I guess I'm also surprised to find…

But we have the INTERNET! There is so much stuff I didn't know how to do and then I learned. I commented upthread that I don't remember learning how to sew a button...I was just like, "Well, there are all these little holes, and I can see how other buttons are attached, so..."

Going up, my parents were were divorced and never communicated directly. I got bounced back and forth between them a lot. Always based on what my mom needed. Fuck my social life or grades or stability. If being a parent started to get too hard, she'd ship me off to live with my grandmother or father. She'd get lonely,…

This was not my proudest moment, but when I got dumped by a guy who had sworn eternal love just long enough to hook me and then stomp on my heart, I called a florist, had them cut the heads off a dozen long-stemmed roses and deliver the wrapped-with-a-ribbon box of stems to the asshole during a long business meeting…

Yes, but I think you're taking away from this that because I might feel safer with my boyfriend there, it means that I feel helpless without him, and that women in general are helpless. Not at all! Saying that men are more intimidating to men does NOT equal saying that women can't be intimidating by themselves. The…

That's really too bad, because contrary to what many people* seem to think, the idea of educational TV isn't meant for "lazy" parents who don't want to bother teaching their kids themselves. Sesame Street was created specifically for impoverished inner-city kids who were starting school behind the wealthier children.…

YAY!!! A real, honest-to-God Science writer! Jezebel, you have answered our collective prayers!!!

Are they really good tips though? There's complete lack of communication. Why not just say, "I love it when you touch me like ___" or "I get off so well when you stay on top and ___"? How about, "I hate initiating all the time, it makes me feel like I'm bugging you. It's so sexy when you come to me and it makes me…

Maybe I am an anomaly with this, but I hate giving a handjob or blowjob to completion. Yes, it's a turn on for me at first, so it's not like I get nothing out of it, but I get bored way before he comes. Manual and/or oral action as part of foreplay? Yes, all the time. But once I'm turned on, I want PIV, not to…

That's why I'm fine with the various levels of outrage or non-outrage. Whether the comments were intentionally ignorant, racist or just careless, they were most definitely not benign, but that's just the nature of putting words out there. Yet people still need to be reminded that what we say has consequences,…

The day I see a mainstream news article writing about the natural hair movement and focusing on a white woman with naturally curly hair and how she made it acceptable for women to embrace their hair even though it's not straight, silky, and smooth, I am creating a rocket ship and getting the fuck out of here.

It's all about context. Not every person who dates their own race is racist, BUT there are a lot of people who have racial biases that affects their mate choosing

Meant to post this in my first comment, but here's the lowdown on how familiarity breeds attraction:

I mean, hair color and race aren't really comparable, and a lot of the time, it's worth considering why things that we think are just preferences exist. Like me, for instance; I used to say things like "I'm just not attracted to black women," but when I sat down and thought about why I said that, I realized that I…

When I did the online dating thing, I got more response from hispanic and white men and I did from black men (I'm black). Just to check if I was imagining things, I changed my race to "mixed" and sure enough…a lot more black guys took notice. How crazy is that? I think people have this idea of what a ___________…

Currently 25% of all jobs in the country pay $10/hr or less. So what the hell do you tell all those people? If everyone had a PhD in neuroscience someone still needs to work these crap jobs and the fact is BLS statistics have show almost 20% of minimum wage workers, and thats those working for the legit federal…

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We managed it one time as a sheer fluke, but the orgasms themselves weren't so fabulously outrageous as to make it a goal type thing.