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Smelling Like Sweet Romance: The Dangers of Douching - Hot Movies for Her
“For lack of a better analogy, your vagina is like a self-cleaning oven – it doesn’t need any outside help to maintain the perfect conditions. Your vag has a natural balance of acidity and bacteria that can drastically shift with douching, which can lead to vaginal irritation and Bacterial Vaginosis*. Douching can also push existing vaginal infections up into the uterus and fallopian tubes, sometimes causing Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (PID)** and even easier STD transmission.”

Srsly. If my cunt was suposed to smell like ‘Tropical Rain’ the gods would have made it that way.

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Busy Students Get a New Required Course: Lunch - New York Times

Whine whine whine. When I was in 11th grade, those fun GPA, SAT, college application obsessed years, I had lunch every other day, if that much. I lived on coffee, smokes, and spite, along with the rest of my (highly competitive) class, and we turned out ok. Besides, once you’re done with all that, you have senior year. Senior year, I had like, three free periods and lots of time to do other stuff. Like compare prom dresses, make seating arrangements, and figure out how to get my boyfriend to fuck me.

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53 Days - The Edge of Vanilla

This made me cackle, AND guffaw. At the same time.

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Ugly Violet:Every Girl Online is fat, ugly and unsexy. Here’s how to get over it. - SF Gate

“Like I, or any woman worth her weight in vagina, should give a toss what “viking116,” “toadytenderloins” or “bigdaddyhouston54″ say about what we look like, our sexiness, or its relation to what we’re saying. No, that’s why we have friends (and editors, and in my case, agents and publishers). Everyone knows comments like that are from trolls who make any publication they’re associated with look bad, and they should be bitch-slapped from here to … at least the Tenderloin and back. They’re off-topic and thus easy to discount nonetheless, but would political sex and culture commentary from someone who looks like Pamela Anderson actually be taken seriously? Maybe by the editors at Maxim, but honestly, what girl wants the adoration of psychotic anonymous trolls?”

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Wooden Memory Stick - Oooms (Found via AAG - thanks!)

Ha! I’m so getting my sister one of these for Christmas. I almost wish I had a lap top, so I could sit in Starbucks using it with a fucking piece of wood sticking out of the side. Those crazy Dutch.

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The Affairs of Men - The Pleasurist

“I, for one, reject this assessment of fidelity. For one thing, I think it infantilizes men, portraying them as mere vessels for the fulfillment of their penises, unable to resist their own urges. Secondly, I think it creates a characterization of their female partners as wardens, using marriage as a lock and key to castrate them.”

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Joe Lieberman, Would-Be Censor - New York Times Editorial
“Terrorism is a real concern. All Americans know that. They also know that if we give up our fundamental rights, the terrorists win. If people use speech to engage in criminal acts, they should be prosecuted. Cutting off free speech is never the right answer.”

Look, I know Godwin’s Law only really covers Nazi’s, but can we add an addendum to it about the phrase ‘…the terrorists win!’? It is starting to get really irritating. It seems like any argument for or against various limitations on personal freedom end with ‘But then the terrorist will win!”

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He Took a Polaroid Every Day, Until the Day He Died - found via Gala Darling

“Yesterday I came across a slightly mysterious website — a collection of Polaroids, one per day, from March 31, 1979 through October 25, 1997. There’s no author listed, no contact info, and no other indication as to where these came from. So, naturally, I started looking through the photos. I was stunned by what I found.

In 1979 the photos start casually, with pictures of friends, picnics, dinners, and so on.”

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Dr. ‘Dumps’ Lesbian on Religious Grounds - ABC
“In 1999, after a year of surgeries and hormone treatments — all covered by insurance — Benitez was finally ready to get pregnant by artificial insemination. But at the crucial moment, her doctor refused to do the procedure for “religious” reasons.”

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Control Tower: HBB - Mistress Matisse

“But the “elusive” part refers to the fact that couples seeking another woman to join them, whether it’s just for a night or for life, often find it difficult or impossible to succeed. That’s because no other group of people is as frequently stigmatized, ridiculed, and fled from by the very women they’re seeking. Frankly, most single women regard the couples who hit on them with all the warmth of Ann Coulter talking about Michael Moore.”