I was able to obtain Plan B via an Internet prescription referral service through Planned Parenthood's website. That was before it was available OTC. They had a link to a physician in my state that would fax prescriptions to a pharmacy of your choice after you provided some information via a web form. I was able to get a prescription that evening even though it was a Sunday and a holiday weekend. I think the cost was about $25 for the doctor to fax in the prescription. I can't remember how much the pills were...just incredibly relieved that they were available in a timely fashion.

Didn't the CDC revise that measure not too long ago and then a lot of people were classified as obese that weren't previously? Or am I getting that mixed up with the poverty line?

Anyway, I found that my weight was directly influenced by anti-anxiety/antidepressant meds that I was prescribed for IBS. After going on them, I added about 15 lbs to my normal body weight. I wasn't obese, but for a 5'3inch woman, that's a lot of extra poundage. I went on a weigh loss program via my insurance company and followed all the rules, ate less, logged every bite of food, switched to lower fat cooking, exercised more and NOTHING. Then I looked up the side effects of my prescription and found that weight gain/slow metabolism was one of the primary side effects. Three months after I switched prescriptions, the weight was gone and has stayed off and I've been able to go back to a normal diet. We know that there has been a huge rise in the usage of antidepressants, could that be part of the equation?

To the person who wrote about picking up after her husband...I completely agree. You should not sweat the small stuff. The LW should just shrug her shoulders and NOT do his laundry. It's not worth bothering about nor is it worth getting angry over. But it's also NOT WORTH DOING. Because that's obviously how the LW's husband feels. In this manner you are in complete agreement with your husband, so there's nothing to argue about.

In college, I had a roommate(aka Stinky Sloan) that never did his laundry. His mom had done it his entire life. His first year his mom came and did it or he brought it all home. This continued on until his 3rd year of school when his mom went back to work and didn't have time to drive 3+ hours to do her son's laundry. We lived in a very nice apartment with a coin operated washer/dryer in the basement. The first time Stinky went to do his clothes he stormed back into our apartment entirely pissed off that one was expected to PAY to use the washer/dryer. And not only that, but you needed exact change in quarters. This imposition turned him off so completely that he decided not to do his laundry ever. He smelled. BAD. Like sour milk. His room smelled so gross that when my other roommate and I needed to get the cordless phone from his room we flipped a coin and the loser tied a kitchen towel around her mouth/nose and ran into the stinky room and got that phone as fast as possible. His roomed smelled so bad that we made him keep his door closed at all times and put a fan in his window to blow out the stink. When he got a girlfriend (long distance), and she came to visit, we asked him where she was going to stay. We said that we'd be happy to make up the futon for her because we didn't want her to have to suffer the stink. He told us that no, no, he was going to do his laundry and bed sheets for this special occasion. Do you know what he did? He took a can of Lysol and sprayed his bed and pile of clothes. His girlfriend broke up with him that weekend. And that is the legend of Stinky Sloan.

If she says "yes" after two forties, it is NOT rape. If she is out cold after a couple of jaeger shots and someone has sex with her, then it IS rape. No consent was given. Sorry, but there's a line somewhere. If every guy that had sex with a drunk or tipsy female was a rapist, almost every American male would need to be behind bars. Do you think that if a guy does a couple of keg stands and then has sex with his sober girlfriend, that she raped him? Even though he was completely into it? Please. Don't make every sex act out to be an attack. That takes away from the validity and seriousness of real attacks, where consent could not be give, was never given, was ignored or overcome by force.

Side note: how long is it going to take for someone to post that stupid list of "if he asks more than twice and she gives in, then it's rape"?