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ariane

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Dicks or Vaginas
Honey Bucket or Wizards of Ooze
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What's your biggest grammatical pet peeve?: "I could care less" - well, why don't you?
What is your sweetest taboo?: listening to Sade

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May 23 ariane commented on Great Moments In GOP Outreach to Women.

I wish we could let him carry a non-viable fetus through the last portion of the pregnancy. What a heartbreak for the mother, and to compound it by requiring her to finish it out? Thoughtless, insensitive, cruel, and inhumane.

Feb 28 ariane commented on Savage Love.

@132 - IPJ I was getting ready to point that out too. Its the 1 year cumulative risk of getting pregnant with poor condom use that winds up with a 15% pregnancy rate. Obviously things like breakage contribute to that, but so does 1) starting to put it on inside out, then flipping it, 2) doing a few insertive strokes, then putting it on 3) waiting too long to pull out post male orgasm and not holding the condom on at the base.

With the pill, there are fewer failure modes, but depending on the dosage and her body mass, they can be SUPER sensitive to being taken at the same time every day. Most pills are tested in clinical trials for women up to about 180lbs, so for women heavier than that, you may also not get the blood concentrations you need and not all doctors are very good at discussing this (2 friends had this issue: one had an abortion, one had a baby).

Feb 28 ariane commented on Savage Love.

I'll jump on the bandwagon with other posters about getting a prescription for HBC pills but not taking them until you are actually active unless there are other reasons (PMS, acne, etc). I'm 30 and have been on HBC mostly continuously since I was 16. It took a few tries but my doc and I found that I tolerate the triphasal kind fairly well, Depo not at all (I was a raving bitch the first week or two after each time and it depressed my drive), and my husband didn't care for the Nuvaring since he could feel it during sex and I could in some positions. I'm on the minipill right now since I'm still nursing, but it seems to be a LOT more sensitive to taking at the exact same time every day. We aren't ready for another kid yet, so even with the pill, we are using condoms to get that 99+% effectiveness!

I've got friends who have loved their IUDs, who have had no issues with Depo, or the implants have been fine.

Like many other people here, condoms no matter what, and I suggest starting with something you can easily switch if you react badly. Everybody and every body is different so be patient and enjoy!

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Feb 5 ariane commented on It Looks Like an Exoskeleton.

I enjoyed as well, though the video @33 was more entertaining for me :-) I lean towards the lean and built, but while he is fun to look at, I didn't take the mental step of "want to do more than look at"...

Sep 26, 2012 ariane commented on SL Letter of the Day: The Euro.

I know of two couples who had abortions early on and the relationship survived, (though one did end up getting divorced about 25 years later for other reasons). The other was an "oops" that happened in the very first week of dating and they have been happily married for a while now and working on growing their family.

Sep 5, 2012 ariane commented on Savage Love.

15lbs in 3 1/2 weeks for a guy that is moderately overweight isn't that hard from what I understand. I've got a friend who can do about that by actually exercising a little and just being halfway smart about what he puts in his mouth. Sometimes, I think I'd like to kill him...

Jun 20, 2012 ariane commented on Savage Love.

I think the 0.5cc T may be a dose of hormone?

Mar 6, 2012 ariane commented on Rule of the Internet #34.

@7 = Matt: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/rules-of-t… :-)

Nov 8, 2011 ariane commented on Straight Rights Watch: Mississippi Votes Today on "Personhood Amendment".

Isn't Mississippi one of the states that does abstinence-only education? And one of the states with the highest rates of obesity? Guess I know where a lot of my tax dollars are going in the next 50 years. /sigh.

Oct 13, 2011 ariane commented on The End of the Footnote?.

This would make me unable to purchase a single Terry Pratchett novel for e-reader. He uses them as a humorous device, with footnotes occasionally requiring additional footnotes of their own, and some that may be several paragraphs long (enough to bleed onto a facing page...).