I feel slimy just typing this, but I agree with the Unhealthy Septic. Atrocities such as the forced raping of family members by other family members have been reported from conflicts around the world, and by Amnesty International as having occurred in dungeons around the world, e.g., in Saddam Hussein's Iraq. The men in the Congo may be forced to masturbate first in order to achieve an erection, because like you, I cannot see them willing one by the thought of raping their wives or daughters. However it happens, though, I regretfully believe that it does.

Why these soldiers have such a hellish hatred for women is beyond me, though we can all speculate and probably get it right a few ways. These Broadsheet letters pages are filled with misogynistic rants -- maybe we can ask some of those letter writers why they hate women as much as they do.

Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go perform a good deed in order to repair my soul from the damage of typing that first sentence.

Let me first dispense with Rampart: you're an asshole, plain and simple. You probably couldn't get laid if you paid a 75 year-old prostitute just to mercy-fuck you. Get lost.

Onward. Though I'm a vegan, I and my vegan friends have been chuckling over this "vegansexual" stuff. It's taking things a bit far, but hey, in a world of Dirty Sanchez's, vegansexuality is downright vanilla.

Once I became involved in animal rights, I did choose to date only vegetarians and vegans, since such women shared my ethical concerns and frankly, I'd had enough of sticking my tongue in a mouth that still tasted of meat. Having been a young man when the animal rights movement was new, I had a ball (so to speak) with all the hot veggie women. One thing I was told, or heard, time and again was that vegetarian men's cum tasted better. (I never noticed a difference in veggie and nonveggie women). I could only take their word for it, but if that's what my female friends reported, then Brightstar's comment earlier down this thread about veggie men & women smelling different makes sense. If your sex partner's smell or taste turns you off, it won't be much fun, will it?

In the end, who cares what consenting adults do in the privacy of their own bedrooms? Personally, I'm glad that I and my wife are both vegan, and our sex life is great, thank you very much, Rampart you dickless shmuck.

If you ever do a convention near D.C., please let us know. A few years ago you penned a very moving strip about the death of your cat. I haven't forgotten it.

You asked,"do vegans have moral objections to having oral sex? Because logically, you'd have to assume they would."

Not at all. If a person is vegan out of an ethical concern for animals, then he or she would have no problem at all with oral sex. No animal is dying and no animal is suffering. I suppose if one is vegan solely for the reason of not wanting to consume any animal product, just because it's an animal product, then I guess oral sex would be out, but in 20 years of being active in the animal rights movement, I've never come across such a person.

We vegans have a saying: the only meat I eat consents to it. I hope that answers your question.

Ginghis, based on a media-manufactured trend (vegansexuals), you're resorting to that old insult about vegans being self-righteous. You know what "self righteous" means most of the time? It means, "You hold a moral or ethical belief with which I disagree." Get off it already. Moreover, I doubt any vegan would let the likes of you get inside her pants, so you don't need to worry about any post-sex chit chat.

Silenced, vegans don't want world domination; think of the logistical headache of running the world. As for vegans being "peace loving," I'm sure some are (I'm not -- there's nothing like full contact sparring to get yer juices going), but veganism is based on an opposition to cruelty to animals; beyond that, it's up to the individual with regard to pacifism, peace, etc. We're not all a bunch of diaper-wearing Gandhis, you know (not that there's anything wrong with that).

An anonymous wrote, In college, I considered my roommates, who were all cut. How can they live like that? Well, they've lived like that all their lives, and all sensitivity is gone. And theirs are open-air, and dried out.

Insert that cartoon noise here.

I'm anti-circumcision, but as a circumcised guy, Mr. Anonymous, let me assure you that my Mr. Happy is neither dried out nor non-sensitive. Are you telling us that your glans is always moist? Well, maybe it is, and you may in fact have more sensitivity that us circumcised guys, which is part of why I am opposed to the practice. However, you overstate the detrimental sexual effects of it.

Broadsheet, don't over-do the circumcision articles. Keep them in reserve for a rainy day, kind of like articles about Anna Nicole Smith's baby or waterskiing squirrels.

Not all, of course, but today's Republican men are not much more than emotionally and sexually immature 14 year-old boys trapped in weak men's bodies. Think of Rush Limbaugh or Jonah Goldberg. These guys overcompensate with macho talk to hide, without much success, their own feelings of inadequacy. The flip side of them are the true hardcore, badass Republican men who revel in their he-man personas. Think Ted Nugent.

What they all have in common is a hatred of women. It's why they also hate gays, peace activists, human and animal rights activists, environmentalists, etc. Anything that smacks of nurturing or compassion is anathema to them.

Maybe the psychologists here can explain why Republican men hate women (or is it that women-haters become Republicans?). Whatever the reason, they fear a woman President. Hillary Clinton is their nightmare.