I lol’ed.

Good for her for apologizing. Although it will not be enough. Remember! She’s Satan!! We must hate her, all evidence to the contrary. Get those Republican talking points back out there!!

Can I just say this is the weirdest fucking news story? Being a sex slave is awful. Awfuuuuuuullllllll. But somehow that’s not enough and the nyt (and jez) has to sell it with.... “and sex slaves are forced to take birth control!!!”

I’d ask if we have the same MIL but my husband’s brother is so emotionally damaged that he can’t leave the house, let alone get married to anyone.

I don’t have BEBEH but how is what Palin did not considered kidnapping?

I’m sorry, but if you get pregnant by someone you don't want to share custody with, get an abortion.

You weren’t vaccinated for it unless you were a kid in the 90s. The vaccine was released in 1995. It’s now recommended for all kids in the US, but in some places it’s still only administered to high risk kids. It’s a good idea to get it but it’s not like skipping an MMR vaccine.

I support any and all reasons to post a link to Christian Side Hug.

I went to a gym class in the South and they were playing “hardcore” Christian rap and I found myself running to “Bathe in the blood of Christ!”

Christian hip hop is brilliant, obviously.

Spurgeon Seewald. I mean.

People paid to have filmed sex = legal

Woman here. I DO NOT attach moral judgment to sex work, so long as everyone is an adult, participating freely, and choose to make the transaction. If sex work were legal and regulated, workers would have protections. Customers would have protections. Women and men who were assaulted by a customer could go to the…

I don’t get it, porn, where multiple people are paid money to have sex, is legal. While prostitution, where one person is paid money to have sex, is illegal. We need to ban both or legalize both, otherwise the laws are intellectual inconsistent.

Yess! This is so true. Mr. Thistle isn’t around 5" but he’s got some heft to it so I don’t feel deprived at all.

There’s a series of studies started by Malamuth in the eighties that suggest that you are judging some rapists too harshly. Malamuth found - and this has been well-replicated - that about a third of college-age males simply don’t know how to avoid raping someone.

“shaming men for penis size is the same kind of body snark that this very website is a huge champion against”

Bigger dicks are widely viewed desirable. It’s a fact. I’m not saying people should “give up,” but pretending guys with small dicks aren’t at a disadvantage is silly. I guess I just have a low tolerance for the whole “we’re all beautiful” new-age fee-good stuff; it’s like telling kids they can be astronauts.

You mistake my callousness for condoning the way we value people. I don’t “like” that people are often reduced to things outside of their control/objects, but that’s The Way It Is™. You can hold your breath waiting for a world where everyone’s equally valued, but I wont.