I used to know a couple who ran a support group/group therapy model for pedophilic men. She and her husband (nurse/doctor combo) believed quite sincerely that these men needed support/counselling/therapy. It makes sense to me.

This is just an idle thought… but, you know, one of the things that sometimes goes through my head is: "what's wrong with wet-nursing? What's wrong with getting a wet-nurse??" I was occasionally nursed by my mum's best friend, and her daughter by my mum, as we were only 6 weeks apart. If a new mum can't breast-feed,…

They get it when they take the protective gear off. There are actually very specific orders of removal and ways in which to remove protective gear, in order to ensure that nothing on the gear touches you. I've read a couple of articles suggesting that the assumption is that the nurse did not degown correctly.

There is. It's called fetlife.com

Okay, let's talk about that. 1. Condoms are one of the cheapest forms of birth control, but they rely on the goodwill of the male partner. Also, they break and fail upon occasion. So, really, they kind of suck in terms of efficiency. 2. The pill, here in Canada, can typically cost anywhere from $20 to $30 per month if…

I wasn't talking about precautions - rather, about the risk to the patient. Yes, you're right, we take airborne precautions - but transmission is not typical in the sense of small-particle droplet transmission, i.e. 'airborne'. From the med-surg I dragged off the shelf: "TB is not highly infectious, and transmission…

Not all Iranians are Persians. But yes, you're quite right, Persians are quite fierce about their identity.

Typically, because TB is droplet and not airborne (as in, you have to get their droplets from their sneeze in your mouth, not just be in the same room and breathe the same air), it's not as infectious, as say, the flu, and requires a fair amount of time and close contact to contract. This is why we see TB in prison…

It's quite likely they didn't know they were infected. Initial symptoms of TB are those of a bad flu/cold/URI. You'd think that they'd seek medical attention when they started to manifest other symptoms - night sweats, chest pain, weight loss, etc., but people can be surprisingly blind to their conditions.

One of the previous studies these Queen's folks did was to hook up everyone's bits (well, men and women, straight and gay, between a certain age range who were non-smokers with a pre-determined minimum level of interest in sex, etc. etc.) to the meters and show them lots and lots and lots of different kinds of porn,…

Tall, skinny redheaded men with freckles. The scent of Classic Old Spice deodorant. Also, the children's card game Snap - I had a man seduce me with game of strip Snap once, to my never-ending surprise and delight, and there's nothing like getting all competitive and riled up to get everything, well, riled up. Ooh,…

I've had a look at other photos of her around the web, and I'm pretty sure she's had ribs removed. In fact, I'm perfectly certain. And this vid is nuts - that's not a workout. She struggles at the bottom of her squat, and that's at a ridiculously low weight. Suggesting that she's physically overextended, and probably…

This is why, historically, rich women had wet-nurses. I just got off a maternity rotation, and I'll be consolidating on that ward in a couple of months. What I learned as a nursing student: it's not great for everyone. It's really great for some. It's okay for most. It's really terrible for others. There is no shame…

Dear friends, that's not a blackhead. It looks to me like a dried up sebaceous cyst - you can tell, 'cause the cyst is contained in a clearly visible 'sack'. Repeat: not a blackhead. And having one of these doesn't have much to do with hygiene, but is just one of those weird things that happens. Pray god it doesn't…