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Monday, November 2, 2009 08:00 AM

a quick note about piledriving (MEW brought it up, so I don't care if this is TMI)

Most women can't orgasm during intercourse, but for those that do, the best way is to thrust the same way over and over, for twenty minutes or more if you have to, full length strokes if possible, vigorously. At least that's what I've found. No woman has actually in words told me to do this, but for those that don't say *not* to do it, it tends to work. Also, flick the cervix with the head of your penis (though this hurts for some women).

I'm quite serious when I say this is not particularly enjoyable for me; I prefer slow fucking with a shorter stroke. But the emotional payoff of helping her orgasm is worth it.

Monday, November 2, 2009 10:11 AM

MEW is right-on with this post

At some point, maybe, we'll have grooming and shaving to be the norm to such an extent that a full bush will be a shocking sight. And men and women who don't groom or shave will just have to start.

We're not nearly there yet.

P.S. I like looking at pictures of naked women, and porn, and I'm really turned off by all the shaving. I really miss pubic hair.

Monday, November 2, 2009 12:28 PM

"it's IMPOSSIBLE for simple thrusting to bring a woman to orgasm. She HAD to be faking"

Odd, everyone admits that some women can reach orgasm by stimulation of nipples, navels, anuses, etc. But a vagina? No way!

Monday, November 2, 2009 05:26 PM

well you can refuse to believe me . . .

. . . or say that my wife or the other women were faking it, even though they had no problems saying when other things weren't working and even though they could easily orgasm through cunnilingus.

I just ask you to examine your own attitudes and preconceptions. Most of the commenters here are more interested in proving something about themselves than discussing real life. I'm glad that one commenter, mean-spirited as she was, displacing onto me her anger at the lousy lovers she's had, does at least admit that there is such a thing as a "vaginal orgasm".

I'm leaving this thread, but remember: it is NOT cool to say that someone is lying about their sex life. Imagine how you'd feel if you said something happened to you and people said no, you're lying, it couldn't possibly happen that way. Be open-minded, folks!

Tuesday, November 3, 2009 11:33 AM

what clockwork smurf said

A very thoughtful comment.

Tuesday, November 3, 2009 11:37 AM

how times change

Planned Parenthood didn't come out in favor of legalized abortion until 1969.

Wednesday, November 4, 2009 09:38 AM

"when you have people by their balls, their hearts and minds will follow"

This is what happens to pro-life people who are faced with a situation where abortion would relieve all kinds of problems, present and probably future, and having the child would seem to result in a lifetime of crushing burdens.

"Changes of heart" made under such duress really have nothing to do with the merits of the issue. Put my nuts in a vise and I'll probably readily declare that GWB was a great President. And I wouldn't blame anyone else who declared the same thing under the same circumstances.

Thursday, November 5, 2009 11:27 AM
Original article: "Precious" mettle

Wycked, in other words

To be a black woman is to have a history of abuse and humiliation such as your white male ass can hardly imagine. So bad, in fact, that if I grow up to be a balanced adult, it's a goddam miracle. In fact, if you meet me for the first time you're totally justified in assuming I'm f**ked up, because I probably am.

Friday, November 6, 2009 11:14 AM

so women are only wankworthy until age 30 or so and only a small fraction have suitable bodies to begin with

How is this different from the life of an athlete? Only a small percentage have the right bodies, and their career is over in a few years.

Plus, as Aaron pointed out, making money off one's body is an option that is simply not available to men.

I think on balance women have the better of this deal.

Friday, November 6, 2009 09:05 PM

this still shows that women have more options than men

Imagine a study calling out for plastic-vagina-("fleshlight")seeking men.

It would be an object of ridicule.

But vibrator-seeking women have a lot of defenders.

Saturday, November 7, 2009 03:36 PM

the jury's still out on the abstinence-only idea

The independent study said was that there was "insufficient evidence to determine the effectiveness" of the abstinence-only approach. In other words, it might work.

My own (very unscientific) opinion is that it doesn't.

Monday, November 9, 2009 01:16 PM

what if you really believed Tiller was killing babies -- with the approval of the state?

How many of you pro-choicers would disagree with what Roeder did?

Just asking.

Monday, November 9, 2009 06:50 PM

interesting

Nobody engaged my question. All I got was insults.

You really have no appreciation of the other side, don't you?

Tuesday, November 10, 2009 12:35 PM

@webcelt -- why is the New York Assembly overwhelmingly Democratic, while the Senate is so close?

Because they count prisoners in apportioning districts. The prisoners don't vote, but the prisons are in upstate, rural, white areas where the voters are Republican.

Therefore a Senatorial district with a large prison will send a Republican Senator. But the same area, containing three Assembly districts, will send only one Republican (the most rural part, where the prison is).

Monday, November 16, 2009 03:03 AM

the Traisters live in another country

or at least another culture.

Like with many other commenters here, the reactions of myself and the others around me was not at all like this.

The cool reaction to the girl might have been just the fact that it wasn't their first child. But the outspoken preference for a male child that Aaron expressed (and experienced from others) just seems to be bizarre.

Thursday, November 19, 2009 11:39 AM

bummer, Rudy v. Andrew Cuomo would be fun

Both are egotistical, hot-headed, my-way-or-the-highway types (like Eliot Spitzer was).

I'm worried about Andrew Cuomo as governor, though. People seem to forget that he has the above qualities. He has the easiest job in the world now, issuing press releases about hunting down bad guys as Attorney General while Patterson makes all the hard choices.

I think Patterson has gotten a bad rap. He made a few mistakes but they were minor. NOBODY who is governor now would be popular.

Friday, November 20, 2009 02:32 AM

"She is forthcoming enough about her personal failings. Belying her shellacked outer shell. . ."

But you don't cite any examples of her telling us any personal failings.

Sounds like every word was written by Palin's publicist to hone her public image. You've been had.

Wednesday, December 2, 2009 07:30 AM
Original article: Don't just swallow it

The headline and photo are about a more interesting subject, so here's my $.02 on it

If this were a life-affirming, sex-positive culture, then semen -- the stuff of life -- would be not only swallowed, but celebrated, savored, rubbed in -- instead of being heaved at as a kind of excrement.

Wednesday, December 2, 2009 10:40 AM

Might as well say it

The first high-profile lesbian who didn't look gay to me from the get-go.

Wednesday, December 2, 2009 11:17 AM
Original article: Dudes: Porn is harmless!

it could be "effect"

"Effect" as a verb, as in "to institute". (E.g., "to effect changes".)

So smut doesn't "institute" (or "put into effect") guys' view of women.

Wednesday, December 2, 2009 12:22 PM
Original article: Dudes: Porn is harmless!

my secret stash of porn

It's in my memory stick (ha).

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