Local D-list celebrity. He was pretty talented and I was incredibly attracted to him. But he did not have his shit together financially or emotionally. He was also, in the words of one friend, an "ugly fuck". I thought he looked "interesting."

We only ever boned at my place, except once. I cabbed it over to his…

My boyfriend and I are very different as well. I tend to be attracted to people who have what I lack and vice versa. I enjoy dating people who have interests I don't (initially) share because A) I have a chance to try something new and B), it gives us time apart to enjoy our friends and separate pursuits and then…

They used to call me Stacy in high school, or sing "[real name]'s mom" instead when that song played. My crush once came up to my locker and asked if I wanted to date. When I said, "yes!", he followed up with "until your mom's single!" It sucked balls at the time, but then I realized that I'll probably still be…

Cut peppers. Didn't wash hands thoroughly enough. Peed. Wiped. Vulvar agony.

This happened enough times that the girl I was seeing gave me a bunch of rubber gloves as a gift. My friends thought it was a lesbo sex thing. Nope, I'm just dumb as fuck.

I've had way more clients who were too small for regular condoms than who needed larger sizes. They don't tend to call back when you explain that if they can't fit into a condom, you aren't going to go bareback, they're just getting a nice handy. On the other hand, the guys who come in with the right attitude about…

Professional dick wrangler chiming in: I feel you. It's like, "Oh, honey..." *head pat*

Even worse, though, are the DOCTORS that want to shell out for unprotected prostitute sex.

I didn't think anyone was judging her, just that him being a power-tripping perv doesn't necessarily preclude the situation turning out to be a genuine, though obviously far-from-ideal, improvement over her current one. The relationship between power, wealth, race, ability, etc. and consent is something worth…

You clearly have not met my boyfriend. He's all about natural, organic, blah blah fragrances and is the king of artisanal candles, incense, and, yes, oil diffusers.

As for the banana tree, where I'm from, guys make them in high school woodshop class so everyone has one.

It's weird reading this as a professional…

POWER is the bomb and MacKay is a paternalistic piece of shit who'd rather see women die than miss out on pushing his government's fucked up moral agenda. If this was really about protecting women in the trade, we'd see more anti-oppression training for cops, doctors, etc.; consequences for those who harass or…

A close friend's father is still with his partner as she's doing time for SHOOTING HIM IN THE FACE. And it wasn't even the first murder attempt. Being in love with someone who hurts you and/or others isn't as simple as we'd like it to be and those involved rarely act the way outsiders think they should. People in…

Farm kid over here! We had them mailed to our farm (late 80s/early 90s) when we started to keep laying hens. There was typically a 10% mortality rate, which might be lower than expected, but still :-(.

I have no reason not to believe this, as my own family can't seem to keep it together in the "don't sex your kin" department. It ranges from what was considered acceptable at the time in small, rural communities to JESUS CHRIST, HELL NO.

For me, I felt joy. I was vomiting blood and felt sick and ache-y, but I could already see in the inner corner of my eyes that my nose was smaller and straighter, even with the cast on. I'd had issues with my nose for over 15 years at that point.

The first week afterward, I had some anxiety. It was still…

I'd never date someone I wasn't attracted to, but for me, physical appearance isn't the whole story. The person I've been most attracted to thus far was nearly 15 years older than me, missing a front tooth (he had a gold one in when I first caught sight of him), pot-bellied, scarred from a fucking FACE STABBING,…