Indeed. If you're interested, Psychology Today had a multi-part blog post on this topic and related.

That is a common misconception, however a foreskin is no more a breeding ground for infection than, say, a vagina. Both are fairly self cleaning if treated properly.

I've been thrilled to see her work regularly on Cracked, though I've had to struggle to get the video to work.

Some people just have a gift.

Perhaps I've just been outside of Wisconsin for too long, but how can a bra be a fire hazard if someone is wearing it? I'm trying to make the pieces fit... and they... if you... or... no.

I think a lot of times it's a matter of looking for validation. i.e., "You've chosen to sleep with me. Does that make me special? Are you indiscriminate or selective when choosing your bed partners?"

Well crap - I mean when I was growing up I was definitely scrawny - though occasionally described as 'wirey'. Now in my 30's I exercise regularly so my arms are bigger than they've ever been in my life. Does this mean I'm going to become more conservative because I'm getting the olds, or I'm getting buff?

Anecdotes are just that - stories that may be illustrative, but are hardly representative of the whole; otherwise, they wouldn't be anecdotes, they'd be data.

You can't just look at one *potential* outcome of our gun policy and ignore the rest and hope to have a fair assessment of whether or not that policy is in the public interest. Every element I brought up from the availability of guns for criminal use to gun accidents are fruit of the same vine. Fewer guns means…

Like I said, my knowledge is cursory. That said, I have read some discussion on the underling power dynamics of D/s relationships (OK, I read about it in Dan Savage's column one time or another), but whomever holds the power in the relationship that doesn't change my understanding that the parties involved are not…

You're taking an absolutist position to build a strawman.

That point absolutely exists. They reached it in Australia and the UK to name two.

My parent's tastes are pretty similar, so it can be hard to suss out what I got from who. It's hard to say who turned on Doctor Who on PBS back in the early 80's, but it was definitely on. They both love Heinlein so the both talked about 'Have Spacesuit Will Travel,' the Martian flatcats of 'Red Planet,' and his…

I hate Illinois Nazis.

Look at it this way - tribalism and denigrating 'the other' is baked in, but we're finally developing the tools to asses the problem honestly as well as the tools to defeat it. It's slow going, but we want to be better and progress is being made.

That's because they take the madonna-whore complex and turn it into a sport. Once it's a competition it becomes a matter of honor to show you can out madonna-whore the other side.

I left Mad-town back in August, and hadn't heard that. Well students, this is what you get for voting Mayor Dave out of office.

It seems to me deconstructing the purity fetish should be a pretty powerful way of reframing it so it is no longer 'the traditional norm', which is a huge barrier to assessing the logic behind this kind of thinking. So long as it is the norm it's hard to attack it without attacking society widely, good and bad.

My understanding of it is very cursory, but from what I understand, a sub/dom relationship is the very definition of, "demanding one kind of behavior from the object of one's desire and another completely different kind of behavior from oneself." I don't get it, it's not for me, I can't even comment on whether or not…

I've long ago resigned myself to the fact that kinks that aren't my kinks aren't going to make sense to me. It would just be easier if we all talked about this preference as if it were a kink instead of something somehow more profound.