Well yeah, Jezebel and its commenters showered him with attention, that's not the way to get somebody to stop talking. And now we're doing it again.

I really really doubt it, especially in the US. I've never heard of it happening with text-based pornography anywhere else either. I was just making the point that some forms of fictional rape are tolerated and laughed about and made the subject of Cracked articles, but others are illegal. The only distinction seems…

I thought the US and Japan were some of the only places that did allow fictional child porn? Because of "free speech" in the US' case. I know in Britain it's illegal, though the law seems to have originated from people tracing over real photos to get around the existing laws against pornographic photos of children.

I'm just gonna copy my response to the other poster because I think it applies to what you said too:

IIRC 80% of sexual offenses committed against children are not done by pedophiles (as in people attracted to children) but by "opportunists". Opportunists in this context can mean parents and babysitters and whatever, but really it just means that predators will rape whoever they have power over. People don't rape…

This is why advice columns are pretty much worthless. Number 2 needs help but just approaching her directly and saying "You need help" won't work, and the author tells the letter-writer that. But does she do any research or give advice on how else to approach it? No. The only advice is "do nothing".

If you're mixing vodka with pretty much anything then you won't taste the difference. Straight, especially chilled or over ice then you might notice a difference. There's also a lot of confirmation bias that comes into effect when people talk about the cheap stuff giving them worse hangovers, so I wouldn't worry about…

If you don't share a lot of friends then it appears it'll know anyway, unless you don't friend him/her at all.

Fishing what? I don't know if ditching porn is necessary since I'm single and don't have any problems being attracted to real women, I just don't know why my taste in media is so different.

"My desire to love and be loved sexually is equaled by my isolation and my fear of breaking out of it. The fear is twofold. I fear getting nothing but rejections. But I also fear being accepted and loved. For if this latter happens, I will curse myself for all the time and life that I have wasted."

I've always found that my definition of "sexy" when it comes to media, like films or porn, is relatively mainstream. It conforms closely to what society tells me. Yet when it comes to real life women that largely goes out the window. I've been intensely attracted to women of all shapes, sizes, colours and attitudes.

Nah, it was way too long.

Nice hair.

I've long had to accept that if I read Jezebel I'm just going to have to skim past the generalised statements about men and try to remember the context they're made in.

Yeah, I know they're not equivalent, but it kinda reminded me of a flasher waving his erect penis in a woman's face. That kind of thing can absolutely be traumatising to people.

Hortense, I will always love you.

They weren't so much arguing for slavery as doing their very best to come up with situations where it was appropriate, or necessary, or the lesser of two evils. If they tried hard enough to come up with an utterly contrived situation and ignored the abuse endemic in slavery then they just about succeeded. It became…

I'm glad that this film exists. I remember having raging arguments with people on a message board who insisted that slavery could be good or bad, that it wasn't a black and white issue (in the metaphorical sense) and that for some people being a slave was a good thing. They wanted to turn it into a discussion of moral…

It's hard to think that the problem is me ignoring too many women when only one woman in my entire life has actually expressed interest in being with me. It's not like I'm rejecting a whole load of women for not conforming to some ideal image. If there are all these women out there who want me for who I am then…

Yeah, that's what I want, but trying to have that has left me with more than 10 years of loneliness. I am apparently not the brand of ice-cream that women want. It's become obvious that it's not a choice between having someone on false pretenses or having someone genuine, but between having someone on false pretenses…