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Here's the correct link for you :)

I have an uncanny knack for saying exactly the wrong thing :(

I couldn't help but explore "Instruction and Advice for the Young Bride" Published in 1894, the wife of a pastor wrote this missive to discourage young brides from partaking in sex with their new beaus. Some choice quotes: The full text of the treatise can be found here.

It just doesn't feel like money to me :(

Koro: A man's belief that his penis is slowly and irrevocably shrinking to nothingness. While physical examination reveals that there is no shrinkage, the belief is strong enough that it inspires some men to take preventative measures that can end up harming themselves! Witches and evil fox spirits are often to blame. Koro

On the other hand, think there's an age where it's too young/unhealthy to be a client? I started in my early twenties, but I'd guess that's atypical among hobbyists.

I'm very happy to see a generic version of this come out. People with chronic pain a) need medication b) need medication for long periods of time and c)often are removed from working so have less disposable income to spend on drugs. Additionally, for some people taking the most addicting and effective pain killers (Oxycontin and the rest of the opioids), due to decreased life expectancy addiction simply isn't a concern. Generics are uniformally less expensive than brand name pharmaceuticals and I'm happy that the people that need it will be able to get it less expensively. Chances are, they have enough to worry about without needing to worry about how to pay for brand name pills. I understand that it's a drug of abuse, but that's a separate issue from the release of the generic.

petting a happy cat!

Cuddling!!

My first job was working as a records clerk in the Family Courts of Toronto. We dealt with divorces with total assets under 25k and child custody cases wherein one parents would lose their kid and the other would get him/her, or both parents had messed up badly enough that the state would take the child. That place was the beating heart of all that was sad in the GTA.

My tiger, it seems, is running 'round nude. This fur coat must have him made perspire. It lies on the floor - should this be construed As a permanent change of attire? Perhaps he considers its colors passé, Or maybe it fit him too snug Will he want it back? Should I put it away? Or use it right here as a rug? This tiger is sprawled so still and so flat, a question arises when glancing there at. Is he asleep? To be perfectly frank, he looks more as if he was creamed by a tank! -Calvin and Hobbes Came to mind when I saw that image :)

That's unfortunate, and gross. But there are two different issues at play here: sex work, and the crimes of trespassing and littering. I think that they needn't be intertwined. I can't say for certain, but I would expect that fear of prosecution from police and an inability to work in well-lit, public areas has led street workers to take refuge in these dark, private areas. If anything, a new police crackdown on the clients of these workers (or, more likely, the workers themselves!) will force more of them away from the streets and into places that are bad for residents (due to the issues above) and bad for the workers (It seems much more dangerous to be alone in a dark alley or backyard than together with some people at an intersection). That said, I do empathize with people who are having potentially dangerous materials left laying about in their yards. I just don't think a police crackdown is a way to stop the issue.

Android. I'm not trendy enough for an iPhone and BB reminds me of work. Soccer or Football?

True enough, though at the same time if the drug were to go off patent, I bet Pfizer's awfully pleased it happened here and not in the US

banana split with a cherry on top! R A O R

"Hello! Nice to meet you" would be a pretty safe first thing to say :)

My first was with a SP - One word of advice: talk to the lady beforehand. Don't just choose the person with the hottest gallery, choose the one who you think you'll have the best connection with. It'll make all the difference. I didn't do that, and had a really bad time with a really attractive person who had a really bad attitude.

While not the biggest, one misconception certainly is that clients are awful, lecherous, sleazy, abusive, diseased and violent people.

...Nosferatu

John Underwood, Andover Mass. :)

I personally have no issue with giving out a phone number (or a variety of other identifying and potentially harmful information), but I really would like some sort of statement from the SP I'm seeing about how long the information I'm giving her for screening/contact purposes is kept, how it will be used, and when it will be discarded.

Hey! It worked! </scientist>

"Invariably brings baked goods" :)

forgive and forget? :) Corporate

Los Angelesâ?? burgeoning adult entertainment industry was reeling on Wednesday after more than one million residents voted Yes on Measure B, which requires porn performers to wear condoms and mandates random inspections of porn shoots. The ballot measure was touted as way to protect sex workers from sexually transmitted diseases, but adult performers have been some of Measure Bâ??s biggest critics. Earlier this year, the adult entertainment trade group Free Speech Coalition called for a temporary halt to porn shoots in Los Angeles after several cases of syphilis emerged. Last year, the Los Angeles adult film industry temporarily shut down after an unidentified sex worker tested positive for HIV. In 2010, porn actor Derrick Burts was diagnosed as being HIV positive. Burts went on to become a vocal advocate for the mandatory use of condoms in porn. Burt joined forces with the AIDS Healthcare Foundation and helped to put Measure B on the November ballot, claiming it would protect sex workers by preventing the spread of STDs. But those in the adult industry have said the measure was driven by the prejudicial sentiment that sex workers were themselves â??dirtyâ? people â?? rather than being driven by public health concerns. New York-based photographer Paul Sarkis told Raw Story that Measure B was â??nothing more than another effort to marginalize the performers in the adult film community.â? Sarkis, whose book Off the Set delved into the private life of ten porn stars, added that stereotypes about sex workers are â??often used to dehumanize them.â? â??In the years that we spent documenting performersâ?? stories, we were consistently faced with the commonly accepted stereotypes that performers are victims, substance abusers, or damaged individuals who need to be saved or rehabilitated,â? he explained. â??In contrast, what we found when we actually took the time to listen to performersâ?? stories was an acutely self-aware community of individuals struggling to express themselves on their own terms.â? After Measure B passed with more than 55 percent of the vote, the porn actor known as James Deen told The Huffington Post he was â??disappointedâ? that sex workers were being â??continually bullied and used by others.â? Deen added that most porn producers would probably move out of Los Angeles and film elsewhere. Other adult performers have noted that sex workers in Los Angeles are regularly tested for STDs, a self-regulation most porn producers impose on themselves. At least one adult performer feels that intercourse with a sex worker is far less risky than having sex with a stranger at a bar. â??Studies have shown (and AIDS-transmission specialists have agreed) that the self-reporting system in the adult industry is effective at preventing infection,â? Sarkis said. â??However, the squeamish mainstreamâ??s paternalistic attitude toward performers has once again shut out performerâ??s voices, and deprived them of the right to make their own choices.â? The No on Government Waste Committee, a coalition formed to oppose Measure B, announced Wednesday it planned to challenge the ballot measure in court. â??After being heavily outspent by a well-financed AIDS Healthcare Foundation which poured millions of dollars into passing Measure B, the adult film industry will not just stand by and let it destroy our business,â? said Diane Duke, executive director for the Free Speech Coalition. â??While the misinformation and outright distortions made by AHF during this campaign may have deceived voters, we believe in the calm, serious deliberations of the legal system we will find that Measure B is in fact unconstitutional.â? ---------- An interesting story where freedom of personal choice is weighed against safer sex practices.