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Prudie's terrible masturbation advice.
I have to say, that was some of the worst advice I've read by Prudie. As can be seen from this article: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/03/when-sex-leaves-the-marriage/ and the thirty eight pages of comments it's inspired, people have vastly different sexual needs and expectations when it comes to frequency, duration, etc. One of the more ...
Posted to Dear Prudence by neomoderaterevolution on June 11, 2009
New Poem: Lint
LintHow I love the man who cleans my lintHe sits beside me clucking as he strokes''Do you fell better now?'' he asksMy black skirt ripples in his lapI would build a boat for himSkim the seas with scarlet sailsI'd give him gold butterflies--Twine them in his beardBut I sit still, sated, stupefiedAnd that is why he does the workHe always does ...
Posted to Poems by elisabeth on December 12, 2008
Getting out of a mess
What got us into this population mess to begin with was the contraceptive tampering with the natural, intrinsic bond between sex for intimacy and pleasure and sex for reproduction in a lifelong heterosexual marriage. Once we have taken what God built into creation and decided to do things our own way, we have to figure out how to deal with ...
Posted to Convictions Archive by eretzlaff on May 28, 2008
Re: open letter from Greypa
Emmajane: I would take issue with your position that the women responded ''angrily. Ok... I reject and denounce that word. It's irrelevant to my point. Emmajane: Do you expect me to ''deal with'' the fact that you WANT to knock it out with every woman you come into contact, as well as inanimate objects, and some farm animals, or do you ...
Posted to XX Factor by grepya on May 23, 2008
Re: Getting some strange
Lot of women in this thread responding angrily to my post saying how much women want to have random, animal sex too. So here's my open letter to women. Dear the Women of this world, I'm writing on behalf of all men here. If you want to have lots of random, uncommitted, NSA sex with any of us, we are happy to oblige. Even if you're ...
Posted to XX Factor by grepya on May 22, 2008
Getting some strange
I'm a married guy. I love reading the XX Factor because of the general tone of the discussion being more confidential, just-among-us-girls type of thing than the usual ''serious'' articles even by the same contributors. I'm pretty sure the contributors therein know that their ''emails'' to each other are being published on a website that anyone ...
Posted to XX Factor by grepya on May 22, 2008
re: the secret lives of married men
I think Meghan had some trenchant observations. Phillip Weiss comes off in her views as someone who wants to relive his adolescent sex fantasies from his college days while his wife stays home being the responsible monogamous adult. This sounds hypocritical and exploitative to me. That much is obvious. However, intriguing questions arise from ...
Posted to XX Factor by cfarris on May 21, 2008
Re: Feminism ended Marriage/Family
I came to this very interesting post thread a few days late, by way of Blue Skies by way of another Responder to both Blue Skies and MichaelBernard1 on the Iraq War exegesis as to ''how we got here.'' While I sympathize with this female academician and her illustrations greatly, based on her point of view, I have to either disagree or comment ...
Posted to The Best Policy by MichaelBernard1 on March 31, 2008
Virginity: It's How Long... Not Whether
There is a pro-sex take on virginity that is frequently ignored. For me it comes from the pro-sex perspective of Hassidic Jewish practice. The idea is that, of course people should be virgins until marriage... but marriage had (damn well) better happen by age 18 or 20 because, please, be real, people have needs. (And besides being without ...
Posted to XX Factor by RightNow on March 31, 2008
give it up - after you've already given it up
okay fine... you got knocked up because you were irresponsible (thats the cold truth - like it or not) instead of raising a child in a home that is unstable and offers little hope for the childs future success why not give the child up for adoption to MARRIED couples with STABLE homes. be adult enough (after the fact) that you cant take care of ...
Posted to The Best Policy by marriedwithoutchildren on March 22, 2008

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