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"Come Now!" That's hilarious. Catholicism can be so fucked up! What a lovely little essay. I wonder if the Marquis was presumed to be a cuckold by his second wife, or if the folks in town all accepted that his children were his.

So true. I kind of miss my old console days (I don't think I've owned a console since college), but I don't miss those conversations. And I was never very adept at them I'm really excited about getting Alto's Odyssey soon, and last year I had a disastrously obsessive few days playing The Witness, but I'm super out of the loop these days. I hope one of my friends gets an oculus rift. I want to experience it, and I refuse, on principle, to go to a "VR bar." I've never played animal crossing at all! I'm afraid I'll get too obsessed haha

I find the phrase "backdoor sex" kind of odd. In any case, I'm among the proprietors of the LES shop who've inquired about and purchased "backdoor" toys.

OH GOD Gwen Stefani in 1995 ::bows down:: I *vividly* remember watching her sing "Just a Girl" on MTV Spring Break, and staring at the sweat trickling down her stomach. I saw No Doubt live some years back and her abs were still mesmerizing lol

Ah amazing Did it make you think? Is acting not part of storytelling for you? Does story hit you emotionally? One of the amazing and wonderful things, to me, about art in general, and popular media in particular, is just how differently different audiences can encounter one and the same work. I'm anticipating more war rhinos in MCU movies, and looking forward to it, but I guess we'll have to wait and see.

I felt a flush of emotion during the kiss in Wonder Woman, among other scenes. I'll have to watch again to see if I saw it correctly, but it felt very much like the camera was positioned to frame Diana as the agent of desire and Steve as more of the object. Of course, the female gaze being richer and more sophisticated than our stunted male gaze, Steve's agency was heightened rather than erased by Diana's. A lot of tears fell from my eyes during Black Panther, and likely will again when I see it again. Part of it is simply the subtle storytelling and compelling characters (did Sterling K. Brown elicit nothing in you, Jayman??), part of it is the thrill of the ever-urgent historical/social commentary, part of it is the sheer exhilaration of seeing so many amazing black female characters in such big-scale popular entertainment—and sadness at how long it's taken. I mean, just the mere fact of the costume design and the hair. Tears of joy.

Sooooooo excited about Black Panther!

Oh boy! I liked that

Ooh new obsession, fits this thread: Sky Ferreira. Insta, video. A paradise of angst.

M.I.A.

Hey Newman, just to add to the pile a little bit—I was around your age and BDSM inexperience level when I first visited the Fortress, and was very nervous to bridge the "fantasy gap" Dannyboy mentioned. But something told me I was in good hands at the Fortress, and boy was that true. If you visit, whether you decide once was enough or it becomes just the first of many (which I'd say is more likely from the sound of your post!), I'm confident you'll feel you made the right decision. Call or email booking if you haven't already. They're very knowledgeable and thoughtful about these things. And if you're anything like me, you're going to be learning a lot of fun things about yourself in the near future, and enjoying them more and more as time goes by

I'd be surprised if many women were surprised. On the other hand, I would expect many men to be surprised, not because "#notallmen" (which I, for one, think is obnoxious childish nonsense), but because we're so bad at recognizing/accepting when we are the perpetrators. A lack of courage, perhaps? In any case, it shouldn't surprise us. Sure, the scope of Harvey's vileness, and the power he had to protect himself, are vast. But lots of men are capable of small acts of vileness and violence, and of patterns of abuse and harassment. I'm grateful men are being forced to confront this to a greater and more public degree, and that women are being empowered to speak out, like jpcpat and others have said. I hope to keep learning to recognize my own fuckups (w/o demanding women be the ones to tell me), to own it w/o getting defensive, and to grow. As for accusation v. conviction, the public is not a court of law, but we can still weigh evidence for ourselves. We can have more confidence, for example, if more than one accuser tells a similar story, especially if this comports with any evidence from the mouth of the accused; prosecutors also look for corroboration from contemporaneous witnesses, i.e., did she tell a friend or a family member, etc., around the time of an incident? Both of these (more than one overlapping accounts and corroborating contemporaneous witnesses) can be found in the cases of Roy Moore, Cosby, Weinstein, C.K., and others. Donald Trump, too, fwiw.

she just does nothing for me at all

Reading this made me start sweating a little I'll make sure I do a few extra yoga classes before then....!!

Ugh. Worshipping Rihanna... I would die. And that scene in Charlie's Angels was very informative for my confused young mind. (I can still remember the feeling of squirming in discomfort and wanting it to never end.) But to add three new names to the list: Emilia Clarke (as Khaleesi, obviously) Sofia Boutella Adriana Ugarte And, since I'm not sure whether she qualifies as famous, as a bonus: Emily England.

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And now a review, imagining Mistress Zito's perspective on our recent session, courtesy of sextsbot: "I strip for your fingertips so I can betray them lovingly."