I really enjoy cold water after a breath mint. Dunno why.

[cokeandsympathy]

I need help.
Recently my family's been determining the best way to give my now 15(ish) year old cousin THE TALKThe following was my contribution

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[bacchuswino]

My father is an Episcopal Priest, used to work with the civil rights movement in the sixties, pictures with MLK and all that, quasi-pillar of whichever community he happens to inhabit given what various diocese need from him and whatnot.

When he gave me 'the talk' he was wearing his collar and sitting in his favorite yellow chair. Started out with a bunch of awkward lead ins to what I obviously knew we were going to talk about, that kind of ominous discomfort ingrained in all of us when our parents decide it's time to talk to us about the stuff the kids in the locker room have been theorizing on for years.

Ominous or no, once the preliminaries were set my father looked me square in the eye and said "Alright Adam, most important of all you must remember that there is a clitoris and a G-spot. Obviously there will be a lot of work before you get to either one of these things, the whole body is an eroginous zone..." and so on and so on. Going into detail about a whole plethora of confusing and intimidating facts about women than I'd heard in a while, as if I hadn't been terrified enough by girls when I was twelve.

Now. While unorthadox, I personally think this is generally a valid approach. Though... I honestly doubt most parents would be comfortable with it. Either way though I highly doubt that the kid hasn't heard fifty billion other things by now, he's fifteen for chrissts sake, even christian boys think about cooters in the dark of night.

[dgenerator]

Answer me this.

WHERE THE FUCK HAVE YOU BEEN, MAN?

[bacchuswino]

Off the grid, so to speak. Dissapointing relationships (is there any other kind?) and a number of pressures kind of just stuck me in a hidy-hole for more than a bit.

I'm starting school again in a little over a week though, training for EMT certification and an eventual nursing degree if all goes as planned. While it's something I've wanted to do for a while I'm still having difficulty imagining many of my old friends feeling comfortable when I show up with flashing lights and tell them that they need to keep calm.

How's Seattle treating you?