I terminated a very wanted pregnancy at 26 weeks gestation in June. My daughter had a genetic duplication and abnormalities that would have ensured that her life was brief and painful, had she even survived the rest of pregnancy and birth. If I was not extremely privileged to have excellent health insurance and enough…

Distracting Sex - can we get a little more definition on this? I'm hoping the sex is good enough to distract you from whatever else is going on. If you're still washing dishes, doing your taxes, etc... he's clearly doing it wrong.

but Toffee-tastic.

I work as a clinical psychologist, and I have yet to encounter a patient that was 'scarred' in any way from spanking as a punishment for bad behavior. That could be because I'm young and haven't been practicing as long as my peers, but I haven't heard of anything like that. Habitual spanking as a form of physical…

I hope it's mom's job to teach their daughter how to use a tampon.

A friend of my partner is like that. He just has this blind, unwavering (cough... baseless) confidence that at least some women appear to mistake for redeeming qualities. I've seen several otherwise sane women throwing themselves at him and following him around like a puppy dog to the absolute bafflement of all of…

The millions of dollars awarded in civil suits, should be enough to convince all these people who see notjing wrong with police brutality, that something needs changed with how they are doing their jobs. I would think the fact that bad cops cost them money would be enough! Denial is a hard thing to break.

China. I'm sure someone will come in and try to defend them, but to put it bluntly, they give no fucks.

Unfortunately, video doesn't seem to do much for black men these days.

The cops don't care if you sue. The city will have to pay the settlement, not the individual policemen, and the union will make sure those involved keep their jobs. It's really a pretty fu'd situation.

And again, there is no crime here.

It's too late. He's already caught the jungle fever!

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