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  • Re: Master Cleanse Wussy

    It's great that you use cleanses for spiritual purposes. However. The point that Samantha, and the Doctors, bring us is sadly valid. People who diet, ie use extreme control factors over food for the purpose of self worth/esteem/gratification, do so for unhealthy psychological reasons. It's not the worst thing ever, compared ot other ...
    Posted to Slate V by Alyxmyself on October 20, 2009

  • Remedy for loss of sense of smell

    My sense of smell had left me, or at least 85 percent of it. I visited a nutritionist for a totally different problem. When he looked at my list of symptoms, checked off from his symptom list, he told me that he was sure I was lacking zinc. He sent me for a nutrient profile at SpectraCell Labs and they found that I was, definitely, deficient in ...
    Posted to Medical Examiner by carlon7 on July 9, 2008

  • Re: Here's what the fuck I'm talking about...

    Or, it is ''I'm 17, my husband is 55, he's raped me as is his right in our society, and I'm pregnant. I have no access to any kind of birth control, and abortion is forbidden by both the government & my religion.'' The woman I'm describing is doomed to suffer through childbirth, probably long & unmedicated. And she has a high ...
    Posted to XX Factor by eacole on May 19, 2008

  • Hi-Class Adultery

    When discussing the ''collateral damage'' done to the family of a serial adulterer, no one seems to want to bring the really ugly out into the open. We can yawn on and on about the drop in social status of a Mrs. Spitzer, and her children. But every time I see one of these political wives standing silently by her man as he makes his obligatory, ...
    Posted to XX Factor by NewYorkSparky on March 13, 2008

  • Birth Control for 12 year olds...

    Here’s a question: If a 12-year-old gets a prescription for the pill so she can have sex with her 17-year-old boyfriend, is the school contributing to statutory rape? No one uses birth control to have sex. It's used to do what the name implies: control birth. Kids are going to have sex whether you like it or not, pill or no pill. Given that, ...
    Posted to XX Factor by sephira on October 22, 2007

  • Questions for and Re: to Spiker

    Spiker, thanks for the response. I'm glad you're willing to discuss this with me. I think you raise some interesting points. I intend to clear up one point, and I have some questions for you as well. Then rather than go point by point I want to focus on four or five areas where I think you have shed light on the debate. If there is something ...
    Posted to XX Factor by Suchie on October 22, 2007

  • Re: Birth Control in Schools

    To begin, I think that the point made by Jannipur about how educating girls to say no to sex is a sexist behavior is well made. I also find that Antistokes' argument about other legitimate uses of the pill is too often forgotten in these sorts of debates. That your daughter goes on the pill doesn't mean that she's having sex. That said, I think ...
    Posted to XX Factor by Suchie on October 21, 2007