Whoever controls the vagina, controls the world.

The world is almost ready for my slideshow that makes you click to read each and every word! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! I AM THE NEW KING OF THE INTERNET!!!!

I want my 45 seconds back.

Most.useless.link.ever.

Slideshows like that just reek of desperation. "We only have a marginally interesting story that could barely cover a page. But lets find a couple dozen photos of little relevance to the article, and try to con our readers into clicking through 26 pages. Won't our advertisers be impressed with all the page views we're getting?!"

Fark you, TruTV

the_sidewinder: That slideshow was bad and you should feel bad

BobNesta420: Fark you, TruTV

seriously ... that was worse than anything SuperDeluxe ever gave us.

Fark you, TruTV

/this post brought to you by Jose Cuervo.

1: Intro

Go ahead and Google "sex" (as if you haven't already done so in the past hour); you'll find 2.8 billion results ranging from scientific discussion to pornography to databases of sex offenders.

Clearly, sex is something we like to talk about. But there is a hidden side to sex, where conspiracy theories and well-kept secrets abound...

By Jessica Ferri

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2: Stopping Prostitution

Stopping Prostitution

Prostitution is known as "the oldest profession." Trying to suppress it seems futile. Other countries and cities have legalized the practice, giving prostitutes greater protection under the law. In Germany, prostitutes were just recently asked to report their pay for taxes! Many rights groups and prostitutes advocate for the legalization of prostitution on the grounds that official regulations could better protect women.

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3: Stopping Prostitution (Cont'd)

Stopping Prostitution (Cont'd)

Prostitution has been legalized in certain rural counties in Nevada and several cases of fraud and racketeering have since been prosecuted. Someone must be profiting from keeping prostitutes in the shadows.

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4: Eugenics

Eugenics

This is the practice of using science to improve "the genetic composition of a society." After eugenics principles were used in the Nazi medical experiments it became a very, very dirty word. The Nazis tried to improve society's genetic composition through forced sterilization and targeted euthanasia.

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5: Eugenics (Cont'd)

Eugenics (Cont'd)

Now, we have the technology to confine eugenics to the laboratory. On the cutting edge of science, we are using the principles of eugenics to cure disease through stem cells and other genetic therapies. Still, in the hands of the wrong person, the same genetic technology that currently mitigates hereditary illness could be used to create a neo-Nazi master race.

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6: Circumcision

Circumcision

In America, most parents opt to have their male infant circumcised. Because it makes daily hygiene easier, the medical community recommends it. For Jews, circumcision is a religious practice. Medical research has show that if circumcision is performed shortly after birth it has no negative effect on sexual function.

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7: Circumcision (Cont'd)

Circumcision (Cont'd)

Just when a campaign was growing to prevent what some believe is unnecessary genital mutilation, medical research has shown that circumcision also significantly decreases the transmission of HIV and STDs. Some anti-circumcision activists, however, look upon the timing of this discovery with suspicion.

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8: Homosexuality "Cures"

Homosexuality "Cures"

In the 1920s, therapists and doctors argued that homosexuality was a curable disease. Conversion therapy, a mixture of behavior modification, aversion therapy, and sex therapy was applied to gay individuals. As one can imagine, this therapy was aggressive, ineffectual and certainly unethical.

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9: Homosexuality "Cures" (Cont'd)

Homosexuality "Cures" (Cont'd)

Though the conspiracy to convert gay people into heterosexuals was largely abandoned by the medical community in the 1980s and discredited in a 2009 study by the American Psychological Association, the practice of "praying away the gay" continues in ultra-conservative Christian ministries across the United States. (Marcus Bachmann, husband of Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann, purportedly tries to "cure" its patients of homosexuality at one of his health clinic.s)

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10: Female Genital Mutilation

Female Genital Mutilation

Also known as female circumcision, this mutilation affects an estimated 100-140 million women in 28 countries, according to the World Health Organization. Just like male circumcision, practitioners argue that FGM keeps women healthy with the added bonus that it prevents unwanted pregnancies. In truth, FGM inflicts lifelong suffering on women.

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11: Female Genital Mutilation (Cont'd)

Female Genital Mutilation (Cont'd)

Rarely performed with anesthesia, women are at risk for infection, sterilization, and even death when their genitals are cut, often at the onset of puberty. This practice also turns intercourse into an excruciating act for women. FGM is often defended on cultural grounds but many see it as a conspiracy to keep women submissive.

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12: Gender Reassignment

Gender Reassignment

At birth, the attending physician examines the newborn's genitals and officially assigns a male or female sex to the infant. With prenatal testing, most parents know the sex of their child before it's born.

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13: Gender Reassignment (Cont'd)

Gender Reassignment (Cont'd)

In some situations, however, visible sex characteristics are vague and, up until recently, doctors would encourage the parents to simply choose a gender for their child. Occasionally, those decisions can be wrong, especially in "intersex" people, who have internal anatomy that is inconsistent with their external anatomy. This practice has led to a sub-culture of intersex individuals in our binary world.

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14: Raising a Child Androgynously

Raising a Child Androgynously

The discussion of what to do in the case of an intersex child has become a hot topic in the medical community. In this atypical instance, it might be appropriate for the child to choose his or her own gender. Are children born with gender proclivities, like dolls for girls, trucks for boys, or do we force our children into those preferences?

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15: Polygamy

Polygamy

This was the common practice of the Mormon faith until 1904 and, in the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints (FLDS) faith, polygamy is still in practice. In the early days of Mormonism, the number of men was severely limited due to disease, war, and the hardships of pioneer life. It made logical sense for one man to take on many women, many of whom were widows with children and therefore very vulnerable.

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16: Polygamy

Polygamy

Though members of the FLDS argue that plural marriage works better than traditional marriage, rights-groups see it as a way for one man to keep women and their children under his control.

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17: China's Birth Blockade

China's Birth Blockade

Since 1978, China has restricted urban couples to only one birth, in hopes to bring the population under control. In the thirty years since its inception, demographers believe that up to 400 million births have been prevented.

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18: China's Birth Blockade (Cont'd)

China's Birth Blockade (Cont'd)

The problem with the one-child policy stems from an apparent son preference. A widespread conspiracy against girls has taken place as many parents will have sex-selective abortions until they know they carry a boy.

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19: Sex Tapes

Sex Tapes

It seems like every other day there's a celebrity sex tape circulating on the internet. With computer technology, it's easy for hackers to break into cell phones or computers and disseminate intimate photos and videos on the web. This activity is illegal, and several stars, like Scarlett Johansson, have pursued legal action.

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20: Sex Tapes

Sex Tapes

But other celebrities such as Paris Hilton and Pamela Anderson have marketed their sex tapes, making millions of dollars off sales and publicity. Perhaps, even when the lady doth protest too much, sex tapes are marketing tools.

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21: Sex Scandals

Sex Scandals

When JFK allegedly boinked Marilyn Monroe, the rumor was kept behind closed doors. Today, the doors have been flung wide open and sex scandals have become a very powerful political tool in the United States. As Newsweek reported during Lewinskygate, conservatives had been on the warpath to dig up proof of Clinton's philandering even before he was elected.

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22: Sex Scandals (Cont'd)

Sex Scandals (Cont'd)

Conveniently, when Anthony Weiner was rising as a popular liberal politician, a sex scandal destroyed his career. That said, powerful people get cocky and let their guards down, often making them easy targets.

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23: Total Abstinence

Total Abstinence

In many conservative Christian households across America, abstinence is taught to children as the only means to protect against pregnancy and STDs. The organization True Love Waits requires its members to make this pledge: "I make a commitment to God, myself, my family, my friends, my future mate and my future children to be sexually abstinent from this day until the day I enter a biblical marriage relationship."

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24: Total Abstinence

Total Abstinence

The problem with religion-based abstinence-only sex education is that there is a strong correlation between high rates of religiosity and high rates of teenage pregnancy. Think maybe these parents forgot about adolescent rebellion?

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25: HPV Vaccine and Cancer

HPV Vaccine and Cancer

Conservative politicians, such as Michele Bachmann, have come out against giving young women a vaccine for the Human Papillomavirus (HPV), because they claim it causes cancer.

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26: HPV Vaccine and Cancer (Cont'd)

HPV Vaccine and Cancer (Cont'd)

However, this rumor is universally disputed by the scientific community. The HPV vaccine prevents HPV, a virus that causes some types of cervical and anal cancer. Vaccinating young women (and men) against HPV will prevent the spread of this very common disease and the cancer it can cause.

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I'm gonna guess on this one:

1- Marriage
2- Engagement
3- Going steady
4- Friends with benefits
5- Unrequited love
6- An affair
7- Whatever that thing is lesbians have
8- Co-habitation
9- "No strings attached" Craigs list love
10- Whatever that thing is between the japanese and robots
11- 2nd life
12- Strippers
13- Being imprisoned by your Austrian father

/ No slide show

Subby does for tricking us into clicking that useless link.

slideshow, slideshow, slideshow, slideshow, slideshow, slideshow, slideshow, slideshow, slideshow, slideshow, slideshow, slideshow, slideshow, slideshow, slideshow, slideshow, slideshow, slideshow, slideshow, slideshow, slideshow, slideshow, slideshow, slideshow, slideshow, slideshow, slideshow, slideshow, slideshow, slideshow...

Short version:

1: intro.jpg [original slide here]
2: Stopping Prostitution [original slide here]
3: Stopping Prostitution (Cont'd) [original slide here]
4: Eugenics [original slide here]
5: Eugenics (Cont'd) [original slide here]
6: Circumcision [original slide here]
7: Circumcision (Cont'd) [original slide here]
8: Homosexuality "Cures" [original slide here]
9: Homosexuality "Cures" (Cont'd) [original slide here]
10: Female Genital Mutilation [original slide here]
11: Female Genital Mutilation (Cont'd) [original slide here]
12: Gender Reassignment [original slide here]
13: Gender Reassignment (Cont'd) [original slide here]
14: Raising a Child Androgynously [original slide here]
15: Polygamy [original slide here]
16: Polygamy [original slide here]
17: China's Birth Blockade [original slide here]
18: China's Birth Blockade (Cont'd) [original slide here]
19: Sex Tapes [original slide here]
20: Sex Tapes [original slide here]
21: Sex Scandals [original slide here]
22: Sex Scandals (Cont'd) [original slide here]
23: Total Abstinence [original slide here]
24: Total Abstinence [original slide here]
25: HPV Vaccine and Cancer [original slide here]
26: HPV Vaccine and Cancer (Cont'd) [original slide here]

non-slideshow text dump for those of you who are actually interested...

13 Biggest Sex Conspiracies

Go ahead and Google "sex" (as if you haven't already done so in the past hour); you'll find 2.8 billion results ranging from scientific discussion to pornography to databases of sex offenders.

Clearly, sex is something we like to talk about. But there is a hidden side to sex, where conspiracy theories and well-kept secrets abound...

By Jessica Ferri

1: Stopping Prostitution

Prostitution is known as "the oldest profession." Trying to suppress it seems futile. Other countries and cities have legalized the practice, giving prostitutes greater protection under the law. In Germany, prostitutes were just recently asked to report their pay for taxes! Many rights groups and prostitutes advocate for the legalization of prostitution on the grounds that official regulations could better protect women. Prostitution has been legalized in certain rural counties in Nevada and several cases of fraud and racketeering have since been prosecuted. Someone must be profiting from keeping prostitutes in the shadows.

2: Eugenics

This is the practice of using science to improve "the genetic composition of a society." After eugenics principles were used in the Nazi medical experiments it became a very, very dirty word. The Nazis tried to improve society's genetic composition through forced sterilization and targeted euthanasia. Now, we have the technology to confine eugenics to the laboratory. On the cutting edge of science, we are using the principles of eugenics to cure disease through stem cells and other genetic therapies. Still, in the hands of the wrong person, the same genetic technology that currently mitigates hereditary illness could be used to create a neo-Nazi master race.

3: Circumcision

In America, most parents opt to have their male infant circumcised. Because it makes daily hygiene easier, the medical community recommends it. For Jews, circumcision is a religious practice. Medical research has show that if circumcision is performed shortly after birth it has no negative effect on sexual function. Just when a campaign was growing to prevent what some believe is unnecessary genital mutilation, medical research has shown that circumcision also significantly decreases the transmission of HIV and STDs. Some anti-circumcision activists, however, look upon the timing of this discovery with suspicion.

4: Homosexuality "Cures"

In the 1920s, therapists and doctors argued that homosexuality was a curable disease. Conversion therapy, a mixture of behavior modification, aversion therapy, and sex therapy was applied to gay individuals. As one can imagine, this therapy was aggressive, ineffectual and certainly unethical. Though the conspiracy to convert gay people into heterosexuals was largely abandoned by the medical community in the 1980s and discredited in a 2009 study by the American Psychological Association, the practice of "praying away the gay" continues in ultra-conservative Christian ministries across the United States. (Marcus Bachmann, husband of Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann, purportedly tries to "cure" its patients of homosexuality at one of his health clinics)

5: Female Genital Mutilation

Also known as female circumcision, this mutilation affects an estimated 100-140 million women in 28 countries, according to the World Health Organization. Just like male circumcision, practitioners argue that FGM keeps women healthy with the added bonus that it prevents unwanted pregnancies. In truth, FGM inflicts lifelong suffering on women. Rarely performed with anesthesia, women are at risk for infection, sterilization, and even death when their genitals are cut, often at the onset of puberty. This practice also turns intercourse into an excruciating act for women. FGM is often defended on cultural grounds but many see it as a conspiracy to keep women submissive.

6: Gender Reassignment

At birth, the attending physician examines the newborn's genitals and officially assigns a male or female sex to the infant. With prenatal testing, most parents know the sex of their child before it's born. In some situations, however, visible sex characteristics are vague and, up until recently, doctors would encourage the parents to simply choose a gender for their child. Occasionally, those decisions can be wrong, especially in "intersex" people, who have internal anatomy that is inconsistent with their external anatomy. This practice has led to a sub-culture of intersex individuals in our binary world.

7: Raising a Child Androgynously

The discussion of what to do in the case of an intersex child has become a hot topic in the medical community. In this atypical instance, it might be appropriate for the child to choose his or her own gender. Are children born with gender proclivities, like dolls for girls, trucks for boys, or do we force our children into those preferences?

8: Polygamy

This was the common practice of the Mormon faith until 1904 and, in the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints (FLDS) faith, polygamy is still in practice. In the early days of Mormonism, the number of men was severely limited due to disease, war, and the hardships of pioneer life. It made logical sense for one man to take on many women, many of whom were widows with children and therefore very vulnerable. Though members of the FLDS argue that plural marriage works better than traditional marriage, rights-groups see it as a way for one man to keep women and their children under his control.

9: China's Birth Blockade

Since 1978, China has restricted urban couples to only one birth, in hopes to bring the population under control. In the thirty years since its inception, demographers believe that up to 400 million births have been prevented. The problem with the one-child policy stems from an apparent son preference. A widespread conspiracy against girls has taken place as many parents will have sex-selective abortions until they know they carry a boy.

10: Sex Tapes

It seems like every other day there's a celebrity sex tape circulating on the internet. With computer technology, it's easy for hackers to break into cell phones or computers and disseminate intimate photos and videos on the web. This activity is illegal, and several stars, like Scarlett Johansson, have pursued legal action. But other celebrities such as Paris Hilton and Pamela Anderson have marketed their sex tapes, making millions of dollars off sales and publicity. Perhaps, even when the lady doth protest too much, sex tapes are marketing tools.

11: Sex Scandals

When JFK allegedly boinked Marilyn Monroe, the rumor was kept behind closed doors. Today, the doors have been flung wide open and sex scandals have become a very powerful political tool in the United States. As Newsweek reported during Lewinskygate, conservatives had been on the warpath to dig up proof of Clinton's philandering even before he was elected. Conveniently, when Anthony Weiner was rising as a popular liberal politician, a sex scandal destroyed his career. That said, powerful people get cocky and let their guards down, often making them easy targets.

12: Total Abstinence

In many conservative Christian households across America, abstinence is taught to children as the only means to protect against pregnancy and STDs. The organization True Love Waits requires its members to make this pledge: "I make a commitment to God, myself, my family, my friends, my future mate and my future children to be sexually abstinent from this day until the day I enter a biblical marriage relationship." The problem with religion-based abstinence-only sex education is that there is a strong correlation between high rates of religiosity and high rates of teenage pregnancy. Think maybe these parents forgot about adolescent rebellion?

13: HPV Vaccine and Cancer

Conservative politicians, such as Michele Bachmann, have come out against giving young women a vaccine for the Human Papillomavirus (HPV), because they claim it causes cancer. However, this rumor is universally disputed by the scientific community. The HPV vaccine prevents HPV, a virus that causes some types of cervical and anal cancer. Vaccinating young women (and men) against HPV will prevent the spread of this very common disease and the cancer it can cause.

Any and all marriages?

wow I got beat... twice... I apologize for yet another wall o text. I guess I wasn't the only one with too much time on my hands today.

This is Jessica Ferri. Her articles have appeared all over the web. She graduated in three years.




I hail from the South and even weathered a brief stint as a Midwesterner shoveling snow and studying Opera performance and English Literature at Indiana University. After graduating in three years, I moved to New York and have called Brooklyn home ever since. My publishing experience began with an internship at The Paris Review, followed up with two plus years as an editorial assistant at Farrar, Straus and Giroux. My writing has appeared in The New Yorker's Book Bench, The Economist, Time Out New York, The Daily Beast, NPR, Bookforum.com, Bookslut, Trutv.com, The Barnes and Noble Review, The Millions, The Awl, This Recording, The Second Pass, Identity Theory, Planet Magazine, and The 99%.

Not just a slideshow, but a slideshow that has no obvious ending point that immediately segues into the next slideshow, so if you're not paying attention it becomes the slideshow that never ends.

fark you, Subby. Just because I'm wasting time at work doesn't mean I want to waste it like that.

/Gah!

Can we just prevent anything from TruTV ever being linked to Fark ever again? Disgusting channel with a disgusting website.

Nice slide show. By nice I mean blow me.

december: Jessica Ferri... Indiana University

Ah, say no more. That's all you need to know to explain the colossal fail of the article/slideshow.

/IU sucks

december: This is Jessica Ferri. Her articles have appeared all over the web. She graduated in three years.



wow. who gives a flying fark?

My writing has appeared in ... The 99%.

Oh fark you, you low-standards butthead. My writing has appeared on FARK.COM SO HERP DE DERP

december: BobNesta420: Fark you, TruTV

seriously ... that was worse than anything SuperDeluxe ever gave us.

Fark you, TruTV

/this post brought to you by Jose Cuervo.

Ya know what? Anyone stupid enough to click on a link for Al Gore's TruTV deserves what they get. Along with public ridicule for whining about it in public.

december: This is Jessica Ferri. Her articles have appeared all over the web. She graduated in three years.

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I hail from the South and even weathered a brief stint as a Midwesterner shoveling snow and studying Opera performance and English Literature at Indiana University. After graduating in three years, I moved to New York and have called Brooklyn home ever since. My publishing experience began with an internship at The Paris Review, followed up with two plus years as an editorial assistant at Farrar, Straus and Giroux. My writing has appeared in The New Yorker's Book Bench, The Economist, Time Out New York, The Daily Beast, NPR, Bookforum.com, Bookslut, Trutv.com, The Barnes and Noble Review, The Millions, The Awl, This Recording, The Second Pass, Identity Theory, Planet Magazine, and The 99%.

She's no Sarcastica

Jessica Ferri: a strong argument for forced sterilization.

I hereby move that submitting a TruTV link must result in an automatic seven day ban. Repeat offenders shall be reported to their local authorities as public nuisance.

Don't hate the playaette

Double slideshows with stock pictures are worse than Hitler.

Double slideshow... I blame modmins and I desperately want my minute back.

loonatic112358: december: This is Jessica Ferri. Her articles have appeared all over the web. She graduated in three years.

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I hail from the South and even weathered a brief stint as a Midwesterner shoveling snow and studying Opera performance and English Literature at Indiana University. After graduating in three years, I moved to New York and have called Brooklyn home ever since. My publishing experience began with an internship at The Paris Review, followed up with two plus years as an editorial assistant at Farrar, Straus and Giroux. My writing has appeared in The New Yorker's Book Bench, The Economist, Time Out New York, The Daily Beast, NPR, Bookforum.com, Bookslut, Trutv.com, The Barnes and Noble Review, The Millions, The Awl, This Recording, The Second Pass, Identity Theory, Planet Magazine, and The 99%.

She's no Sarcastica

However Sarcastica is undoubtedly attracted to her.

I mean, Sarcastica is attracted to all women who aren't she-beasts

/that's why I have her favorited
//I can understand

FTGodWin: Ya know what? Anyone stupid enough to click on a link for Al Gore's TruTV deserves what they get. Along with public ridicule for whining about it in public.

I guess I deserve what I got for not checking the source before clicking. Not again, I don't think Al Gore owns TruTv by the way.

The Voice of Doom: 1: Intro

Normally, the person who posts the contents of the slideshow is worthy of respect. But this was a TruTV slideshow. You are a terrible person that made me retarded. I wouldn't even be in this thread except for the fact that my RSS reader doesn't show me the article source image. Nothing from TruTV is worth looking at. In fact, I'm fairly sure extended exposure to TruTV causes AIDS, Cancer, and the kind of sexuality that won't have sex with you when you want sex.

FunkOut: They always call prostitution the world's oldest profession but I always thought killing someone and taking their stuff was the first job ever.

How do you think they got paid?

Anyone mention yet that subby should DIAF?

Psycoholic_Slag: Whoever controls the vagina, controls the world.

So says the girls of Upsilon Sigma sorority.

When it's done to boys it's called circumcision. When it's done to girls it's called genital mutilation. Something isn't right there.

Jim from Saint Paul: After graduating in three years,

You should've stayed in school longer, honey. Maybe you would have learned how to research instead of repeating unqualified bullshiat.

december: This is Jessica Ferri. Her articles have appeared all over the web. She graduated in three years.

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I now know what useless looks like...

//witty reference here

I refuse to be constructive. That was an AWFUL article and subby should be ashamed.

She looks like a girl I dated for a while, thus I will commit her name to memory and never read a single thing she has anything to do with again!
/Yes it ended badly, twice

de_Selby: I refuse to be constructive. That was an AWFUL article and subby should be ashamed.

Things that bug me:
6. Circumcision
10: Female Genital Mutilation (AKA Female circumcision)

I find it interesting how one gets a scary name and the other is a religious option. Like the penis is a car and the foreskin is just a spoiler.

Sarsin: I find it interesting how one gets a scary name and the other is a religious option. Like the penis is a car and the foreskin is just a spoiler.

If god's so farking perfect, how come he gave us so many parts we don't need?