Ha! I totally received Bright Futures and gave my parents a break by attending UF for a year (I mean, I actually got paid to go to class, plus I was a fine arts theater major). Aside from way too many sketch interactions with men forcing hunch punch/jungle juice/natty down my throat—the one football game I decided to…

At some point I went down a k-hole reading about OCM

Interesting you mention glycerin. That's something that I also just bought. CVS sells glycerin in the same spot as creams and lotions. Cheap and the best. The whole humectant thing was fun to learn about as well!

Seriously. In other news Madonna offended everybody and the sky is [sometimes] blue.

officially realizes that most of my frustrations in conversation with people on this board likely result from the fact that this is the first time some have seen this dress and I watched her wear it on tv the first time around.

Oy. First of all, a drug rep is not going to give out free samples of an antibiotic, because—as was established somewhere else in this thread, there is no money in them and most of them are generic. Doctors are often very smart people (look at stats regarding med school and residency admissions) and are not going to…

Who are these doctors, who are being judged based on patient recs? Are they on staff at hospitals? A doctor in private practice is only accountable to their ethics. I say this as someone who isn't a doctor, but knows how the industry works. Giving out meds that are not appropriate is malpractice and an ethical doctor…

I definitely find it to be harsh, but I use micro and mix it with about 2/3rds moisturizer. Differin never worked for me.

Retin-Micro helps me significantly, but because it dries my skin out, I can't use it frequently enough for it to be therapeutic—but I think the "peeling" power of it has kept me from getting fine lines up until now. I'm trying to get into this oil cleansing method thing, diluting tea tree with grapeseed oil. Being…

I see what you're saying. I just see this thread filled with comments indicating that a lot of the women who are "upset" and responding harshly or posting replies to women who are opening up about their dissatisfying sex lives, are highly influenced by internalized misogyny. I don't know where in the comments this…

Thank you for elaborating. I just gave up, since, according to the "vagenious" I am a non-empathetic child who thinks that non-orgasmic people don't exist...or something :-)

I'm not trying to empathize with you. I'm disagreeing with you, and that is okay. Empathy isn't mandatory on the comment board. There's no orgasmic vs. non-orgasmic, that's all something you're creating.

But chronic health issues are very different than what most other people are talking about, which is that they don't/never come and don't/won't/or haven't openly communicated this to their partner or spoken with a doctor. O

Because if a woman cannot even speak with their partner about not having an orgasm for fear of "belittling them" or of how they will respond, then it is unlikely that these women will see a doctor. They don't want to pathologize themselves. If they can't take "judgement" here (i.e., reading comments about how people…

YES! GO TO THERAPY. FIND OUT IF SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH YOU OR IF YOU JUST DON'T KNOW HOW TO OPERATE YOUR BODY. Everyone here who is getting so butthurt about this needs to communicate about their issues. If not with their partners (this is sooooo sad, I pity you all) then with a therapist or a doctor.

Umm, if you believe that the man you are letting put a penis in your vagina is going to give you a hard time for speaking up, presumably because you are a woman, you probably shouldn't have sex with them, let alone be in a relationship with them.

This is it! If women never communicate to their male partners, then their males partners will never improve. Not with them, not with the next woman. Even if I don't come, I can tell when I am having sex with a man who has been "taught the ways" by a woman who CAME (literally) before me. Men don't have vaginas, porn…

Eeeek. This is making me sad! Especially the people who are responding like this is okay. I mean it is if you have an arrangement, but you need to talk about that arrangement.

WOOF. I apologize if someone has said this already. If @olivianope is triggering this type of response (for you, for any of the women taking personal offense to the op) to this entry, even if you have medical issues, you are projecting—especially if you find this issue to be one so sensitive to you that you are…

Also, Jew who grew up in Miami here. Jews don't require black for mourning, but I was always assumed this was fairly standard in Western culture otherwise. Now I'm curious...