fennel and I are going shopping at the Flea on Saturday. Anybody got room for two in a car going there and/or back? Or tips on travelling between the train station and the hotel?

Edit: There is taken care of. Still looking for back ( Read more... )

Last night fennel came over, took me gently by the hand, soothed my trepidations, and helped me discover the secrets and wonders in my box.

And we also set up my new Mac.

An interesting article surveying the research on female sexual desire, particularly research done by women, and the history of that research.

Edit: Great new term from the article: "thinking off" (orgasming without touch).

By tacit, via redsash, the map of human sexuality (here there be dragons!).

Motor racing boss Max Mosley won a landmark case in London's High Court on Thursday when a judge ruled his privacy was violated by The News of the World publishing a story about his part in a sadomasochistic orgy.

When Colin Wightman was informed by the RCMP last June that he was the subject of a sexual assault investigation, he was forced to make ( Read more... )

First shot scheduled for tomorrow at 6:15 p.m.! The woman who answered the main phone line for Planned Parenthood Massachusetts was not as well-informed as she might have been: she had to check a) if the Somerville office did vaccine shots, and b) if it was okay that I was over 26. Given that I know people over 26 who've gotten shots there, I knew ( Read more... )

I had a few questions about the HPV vaccine that I didn't see answered in the standard FAQ's, so I looked them up. Yay internet!

Q: The standard regimen is three doses. Is it effective after one dose, and the other two are boosters? Or do you need all three for it to be effective?

A: This clinical trial reported that the vaccine was 100% ( Read more... )

A thread on aroraborealis's confessional inspired this post. The anonymous commenter was lamenting the apparent lack of available bi men in their crowd (which may be your crowd -- it's hard to know!). Indeed, there is a regrettable tendency in our crowd to assume that women are bi and men are straight. So, I'm offering all of you the offer to set the record ( Read more... )

From antoineseb, who is somewhere in the white space surrounding that map, an amusing "map" of fetishes (be sure to scroll to see the key off to the right).

Wow, people really like to talk about orgasms. Who knew?

Apparently I should have made it clearer that I meant "can you come from the sensation of penetration alone", not, "can you come from being fucked if it's done in such a way that it stimulates your clit". If you want to change your answer, you canI also left it deliberately ambiguous ( Read more... )