December 2010
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You Talk About Birth Control
I asked you/the internet to share your experiences re: birth control. My intention was to re-post what I hoped would be a fairly diverse collection of stories. Each person is different— precious little snowflakes of biochemical diversity we all are, and as such, another person’s experience won’t necessarily be predictive of your own. Nonetheless, I think there’s...
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Cruelty-free Condoms?
I’m wondering if condoms have animal ingredients in them or not— I heard that they did. Does it depend on the brand or something? What about the ones you distribute around campus- do they contain animal ingredients? Thanks.
I currently distribute Lifestyles Ultra Lubricated brand on campus. It is a latex condom. There are trace amounts of casein (a protein derived from milk)...
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An Open Thread on Birth Control
Hello there!
Let’s try an experiment:
The topic is birth control.
I’m interested in hearing about your experiences with birth control. Love it or hate it, there are times in many women’s lives when daily birth control is integral. So I’m curious to know the following:
—What has worked well for you? (Please include brands or types of birth control.)
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What's the Deal with the Prostate?
What’s the deal with the prostate? What’s the best way to get into contact with it?
I love how your question makes me think of communicating with the prostate.
You: I need to get in touch with the prostate!
Me: Try emailing him. The bastard’s phone is never on.
Here’s an illustration of the male reproductive system. ...
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Feeling the NuvaRing During Sex
I use the NuvaRing. Will my partner feel it during sex?
It’s possible that your partner may feel it during sex. According to NuvaRing, clinical trials revealed that 10% of couples felt the device during intercourse. If the NuvaRing is felt by your partner or falls out during intercourse, you can take it out for up to three hours without compromising its effectiveness.
This answer was...
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Higher HIV Transmission Rate in Men Who Have Sex...
How is the HIV virus passed through homosexual activity? I’ve heard that HIV/AIDS has a higher transmission rate among male homosexuals, and was wondering how that works?
There is a higher HIV infection rate in gay men. The higher infection rate is attributable not to biological vulnerability but rather to the higher prevalence of HIV infection among gay and bisexual men—...
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The Compulsion to Love Jerks
Why am I only attracted to jerks? Mean guys suck but nice guys are a turn off…what’s wrong with me? [from a woman]
Tale as old as time, sister. But it doesn’t have to be like that— not by a long shot. The short version of the story is that at some point in your psychological development you most likely internalized the belief that you only deserved love if you were taking...
Hitting On My Friend
Do you think that my gay friend minds that I hit on him all the time? He’s just so beautiful. (I’m a girl.)
I’ve got no way of knowing how your friend feels about your behavior towards him. What do you mean by ‘hitting on him’? Have you been sitting a little too close to him during potluck night, wistfully playing with your lentils while batting your eyes,...
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WatchBjork’s ‘Joga’. Mesmerizing as always.
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Heather Has Two Daddies →
“Using stem cell technology, reproductive scientists in Texas, led by Dr. Richard R. Berhringer at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, have produced male and female mice from two fathers.”
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“Change your words into truths, then change that truth into love.”
– Stevie Wonder, ‘As’
On not being pretty. →
I’m not pretty. It’s cool. Not everyone can be pretty. However, I don’t date a lot because well… I’m not pretty and I live in a college town where there are a lot of pretty girls. One of my guy friends keeps insisting I tell him why I don’t date (he has a girlfriend, he’s not trying to date me)….
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Past Drug Abuse and Future Fertility
In the past, I abused my body through substances an awful lot and over a long period of time. I have had unprotected sex many times and I noticed I have never gotten pregnant. Did abusing substances make me infertile even though I have stopped? Is there a way to reverse it? I want to have kids one day.
Your past drug abuse and lack of unwanted pregnancy(?) may not be related, though I can...
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The Dark Ages Called. They Want Their Outmoded... →
In today’s WTF news:
Belmont University fired their Women’s Soccer Coach after she outed herself when announcing that she and her partner were expecting a baby. Belmont University is located in Tennessee, a state whose human rights act does not prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. And I suppose they thought the stork only delivered freshly hatched babies to...
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Too Much Sex?
I’d like to know how many times a day is too much to have sex?
When you start chafing it’s time to take a break and generously douse your genitals in aloe vera or a cooling lotion of your choice. Friction burns are a reality after an hour or more of sex, and the resulting irritation can leave one in discomfort for several days. If you think you may be having a marathon sex...
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Watch“Dance Me to the End of Love” by the inimitable Leonard Cohen.
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Heroin & Hard-Ons
Since I started using heroin I can’t get a hard-on. What will help me have sex?
Rehab.
Your loss of libido is the least of your concerns. I’ll try to answer this question without sounding like Nancy Reagan circa 1988.
Heroin is not a drug that one has a casual relationship with. Use can quickly lead to addiction, and because of the physiological impact that heroin (and opiates in...
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Authentic Sexuality
With all the risks involved—STDs, pregnancy, rape, abusive relationships, social stigma—how do people find the courage to share and express their sexuality?
A lot of people engage in sex but have yet to, in your words, ‘share’ and ‘express’ their sexuality.
There’s a difference between having sex and expressing sexuality. While the two are not mutually exclusive, the act of sex can be...
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Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American... →
On view in the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery through February 13th, 2011, this exhibit is the first to “focus on sexual difference in the making of modern American portraiture.”
Description from the website:
“Hide/Seek” considers such themes as the role of sexual difference in depicting modern America; how artists explored the fluidity of sexuality and gender; how...
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Ow! Tampon?
I have tried to use tampons (even the slenderest ones) several times, but it is extremely painful and takes me at least 15 minutes to get it in and once it’s in I want it to come out! I feel like there is something horribly wrong with me and I never want to have sex. How does a girl properly insert a tampon?
While inserting a tampon is among the less exciting sensations you’ll...
