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[which_chick]

I found a link over at Critical Mass about Shocking Sex Acts in Schools -- requires registration. I use bugmenot except for the WaPo and NYT, for whom I have actually sent in valid data because I read them often enough.

I don't have a good answer for what to do about the apparent sexualization of younger and younger people. I agree that five year olds should not be 69-ing in the kindergarten bathroom. I'm pretty solid on that.

I'm also solid on the fact that I want my Maypo porn. The fact that someone else's child could possibly be exposed to my porn is not a sufficient reason to keep me from having porn any more than the argument that someone else's child could possibly be accidentally run over by my car is a sufficient reason to keep me from owning cars. It is the responsiblity of the parents to monitor a child's media intake and to keep it within the bounds they deem suitable for the child's age/experience. This is fairly easy when the child is three. It's more difficult when the child is ten. It's nearly impossible by the time the child is fifteen, but by then I'd expect the child to have some judgment.

I'm not sure what to do on this front. It's something to think about, anyway.

For some reason I keep thinking of those Bratz (website annoying and slow to load, probably interactive bullshit, I gave up before it finished loading) dolls, here. They look kinda tarted up, if you ask me. They have blow-up-doll lips. Seriously. That's what they remind me of. Am I missing something, here? It says ages 6 and up... Barbie never pissed me off this much. Barbie is more wholesome-looking and far less sexual even though she has much bigger tits. Probably I'm getting old.

Here's the funniest piece I've read on menstruation for quite some time, an essay notable not only for the original humor, which is quite good, but also for the reaction to internet fame (added at the bottom of the post). It's kind of a two-fer in the world of enlightening things. Go read. I pulled this link from amanuensis1, whose smut I've been reading of late... for those following along, in her recs, Amanuensis had the link to the doily-related fiction mentioned previously. Featuring Percy, as it happened. The internet is a marvelous thing, for without that tenuous thread, I would never have had the chance to plow through (go there, do go there) her own delightful smut. Important note for newer readers: Pretty much anything I link to on the fiction front is smutty, slash/yaoi fanfic that's well-written on at least one count and kinky and smutty. I did mention the smut content, right? I'm not talking diseases of grapes, here. You've been warned.

According to this survey, better than sixty percent of Merkins are not able to name even one supreme court justice. So. Here are our current supreme court justices (we get a total of nine).

Sandra Day O'Connor
Clarence Thomas
William Rehnquist
Antonin Scalia
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
David Souter
Anthony Kennedy
Stephen Breyer
John Paul Stevens

Never let it be said that I don't perform a public service. In the unlikely event that any of my readers were in the 'unable to name even one' pile, now all ya'll are not. You have been raised up. You have been exaulted. Lift ev'ry voice and sing. (I gotta get that on .mp3...) Or something.

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[gwangi.livejournal.com]

My STBexwife was on the Pill plan where she only menstrated once every 4 months or so. She thought it was about the greatest invention ever. And I didn't really mind so much either, to be quite frank. I don't quite understand why more women, especially those who are already on The Pill, don't switch over.

[not-your-real.livejournal.com]

It's been a day for stomach-twisting news links. The school sex one above, for starters. The others were two recent ones I just got around to reading from Ceejbot (http://www.ceejbot.com/blog/space/start): one that references the situation, which I was already aware of, with millenialists in the administration who actually, no shit, really want to bring about the Apocalypse ON PURPOSE through warmongering and environmental collapse; and one link to a 2/3-completed Washington Post series which has uncovered that the leading cause of death for pregnant women is actually homicide. Not medical complications. Homicide. By the father, usually.

[which-chick.livejournal.com]

When I was on birth control pills (several years worth of them), they didn't change the frequency with which I menstruated. Damn thing is like clockwork. I can set my watch to it. Is this a newish invention? I haven't been on the pill since... hrm... pre-1996, anyway.

I never spent the money for Depo-Provera or Norplant, both of which allegedly reduce the frequency of periods but increase the odds of breakthrough bleeding. Gotta tell ya, while I'm none too thrilled about regularly-scheduled bleeding, I'd be even LESS thrilled about unscheduled bleeding.

As to why not everyone wants to be on the pill... it's expensive. The price for birth control pills ten years ago was thirty bucks a month. I doubt they've gotten cheaper since then. (Anyone? Bueller?)

Also, birth control pills make some people gain weight. They've got pretty substantial warnings, too, for a drug GRAS. If you've had problems with blood clots, you can't take 'em. If you smoke or have a history of heart disease in the family, you shouldn't be taking them. The warning insert in the packet is really quite daunting.

A fair number of people I know who were on 'em and quit said they quit taking 'em because the pill played merry hob with their libido. The ability to have pregnancy-free sex is only great if you want it.

Finally, unless you're in a committed relationship with someone you plan to be exclusive with for a long time and whom you trust with your life, you really ought to be protected via a latex barrier. (I realize that I've just revealed that I will fuck people I do not trust with my life. Yes. I have also fucked people for whom I do not have a first name.) The pill is not a latex barrier. My view on the subject was that since I was going the condom route ANYWAY, why should I bother spending a pile per month on the fucking pill?

From where I sit, condoms are great. They're birth control I only have to pay for when I'm actually fucking. I only pay for as many condoms as I need. I can pick 'em up at the drugstore or the WalMart. I don't have to have a freaking pelvic exam or answer a lot of very intrusive questions to get condoms.

[(Anonymous)]

Another ringing endorsement for the warm, quiet and oh-so delectable blowjob. Period.

[which-chick.livejournal.com]

When I opened this LJ to anonymous commentary, that was so that I could hear from people who refuse to have LJ accounts. To prevent me from being confused about which of the eight bazillion anononymous non-LJ'd people on this planet you might be, please pick an alias and use it so that I can tell you from, for example, my mother, my cousin Sandra, and my friend Mitch. Sign your posts, please. Use your real name or not, but pick something and put it at the end of what you write each time so that we know it's you. I hate playing guess-the-prose. It makes me twitchy.

[gwangi.livejournal.com]

Although there are lots of complications to be worried about from The Pill, a little experimentation brand-wise can eliminate the vast majority of problems, including libido depression and random bleeding. Each brand has slightly different hormone proportions, and so does slightly different things to your body. As for the cost, student health centers charge $10 a month, and I guess the drug companies figure a dollar a day once you're in the real world is a small price to pay to insure you're not going to get preggers. As for the additional protection of latex, you're absolutely right about the need for disease prevention. I would never recommend The Pill alone to anyone not in a serious relationship.

The new thing they're doing with them is to eliminate the week where you just take placebo. Instead, you basically go straight from week 3 to week 1 of the next month, so there's never a drop in hormone levels and therefore no menstration. It's really handy.

[which-chick.livejournal.com]

Ah. Back in the day when I took the damn things, they (Planned Parenthood, where I got them because they had reduced rates for students) doled them out on a schedule. If I'd taken them straight through, I'd have run out way earlier than I was supposed to. Using the pill to prevent menstruation was not an approved practice at the time I took 'em. Technology marches ever onward, though.

Come to think of it, I think I pointed this out on afap a year or two ago... I don't know why I didn't remember it from then.