simple as that.

but assault cases aside, if I could've got a woman to fuck me when I was 15 I would've cried tears of joy. is the world better off with horny young boys beating themselves silly and horny older women buying D batteries by the crate? both end up bitter. why not hook them up?

if I ever have a kid I will make sure he gets to have sex with an experienced older women by the age of 16 to spare him years of miserable rejection by women his own age and the consequent effects on self-esteem. a little love could make a big difference

meds are not the only solution, or even the best, in all cases. look at the role of diet (esp. sugar, starch, and food allergies) and nutrition (esp. lack of certain minerals). evaluate thyroid function. adjust outside stressors and internal coping methods (cognition).

everyone has moods. BP is an extreme of this continuum. you may be able to restrict the range and eliminate triggers and thus remain "who you are" without the craziness.

you are at the beginning -- not the end.

good luck

they couldn't expect to find a kosher kitchen in the new world

I always suspected their numbers were bogus, but that is more than I'd imagined. ridiculous.

Of course there's a double standard...

No one was patting me on the head when I was fourteen and having sex with my fresh-out-of-college social studies teacher. No one was patting him on the head, either. So, my question to all the men (especially ones with teenage daughters) is why? Why does a 21 year old sleeping with a 14 year old (showing her 'the ropes' and giving her her first orgasm) deserve stigma that a 30 year old sleeping with a fifteen year old does not?

-- JJ

Should the guy have gone to jail, JJ? Did it screw you up? Did it increase your confidence/self-esteem? Were you abused? Would you rather have spent another ten or 15 years not having sex? Or would that have been worse?

yet movie stars, like big pharma ceo's, pull in $100 mill per pic

drug co's want you to think it cost $800 mil to make that drug. it doesn't. it cost $50 mil. the rest is the business cost to bring it to market which includes everything from the corporate jet to the caviar

the bigger problem is the dis-information campaign big pharma wages with that development money. they convince docs that pills are the only options. they convince congress to grant them a huge monopoly in medicare drug plans. and they suppress negative info on their products until the profits are largely made. the fundamentally corrupt science, healthcare, and government

now americans are literally choking on drugs and prescription costs

what a sick industry

those posts were out of line and should have been removed:

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anyway, the collatteral damage of feminism is that some women feel empowered to act like abusive jerks and employ a double standard on men.

this gives the Right a chance to rile their conservative base on a false issue like the "war on boys" and distract everyone from the national debt, war, healthcare, corruption, etc.

feminists are now jeapordizing the important gains they made for women by abusing their priveleges. it has been fueling a backlash for some time

A man is responsible for his own money; especially if he is poor. If he cannot afford to lose $1K, then he does not leave it lying around. You think it's fair to leave a year's salary in front of servants whose families are starving?

Besides, if he's so poor, how'd he pay for the trip to Africa? I thought that was a rich guy thing, safaris and all. Or did Daddy Warbucks pick that one up, too?

I love how this woman feels it's fine for her Dad to add $1k to the cost of their travel after he already put them up with his friends. "He can afford it," she reasons. She'll be the same one to ask for her inheritance "in advance."

Really she should ask herself why she wants to be with such an irresponsible guy. He doesn't make much money, and he loses what he's got. That makes him: a loser.

And also a possible suspect. He needs the money, after all. And he may have expected to get reimbursed if it were "lost". Or he may have spent it on drugs and needed an excuse to tell her where it went. Servants make convenient scapegoats.

Anyway, I'd bet dollars to donuts photographer boy is living off rich daddy's girl. And I'd double the wager that he's a looker. They are usually the ones to get away with it. Probably driving daddy insane. Kudos to the man for at least trying to teach his future boy-in-law a lesson in responsibility.

"A spoiled daughter (with poor taste in men) is a rich man's curse."

It was like junior high school, like a Friday night dance, bumping and grinding against the hopeless boner of a pimple-faced boy who knows with a desperate certainly that he will never, not in a million years, get laid

Oh, Ayelet, what a tease you were!

She generally looks confused. She is so lacking in brains, aura, intrigue, anything sexy.

Has Hollywood decided that since her tits started to sag and she lacks any other qualities besides the hair they can just recycle her into Sundance and all the indie geeks will be grateful for a non-nerdie girl?

Reminds me of the 40+ divorced women who realize they can no longer date the studs but think they are worthy of muff-eating worship from college-age dweebs who they presume can't do any better.

Um, so not right. Send her back, please. We are all insulted.