http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/SavageLove?oid=16112525 Comments On: Savage Love by Dan Savage en-us Copyright 2013 The Stranger. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The Stranger readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The Stranger. webmaster@thestranger.com (The Stranger Webmaster) Sat, 25 May 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Sat, 25 May 2013 08:15:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by Mary5757]]> Sat, 23 Mar 2013 11:15:05 -0700 The Stranger
Regarding getting it inserted (installed, ha-ha): It was a little uncomfortable, but not bad at all. Several people are writing about painful insertion, but my insertion was really nothing notable. And my cramps haven't gotten worse since i had the IUD. I think it's the best form of birth control ever.
Posted by DanLOVE]]> Fri, 15 Mar 2013 00:18:59 -0700 The Stranger Posted by naked chilli]]> Thu, 14 Mar 2013 22:45:43 -0700 The Stranger Have they been posted yet?
Posted by auntie grizelda]]> Sun, 10 Mar 2013 15:48:03 -0700 The Stranger Posted by Learn From My Mistake]]> Sun, 10 Mar 2013 07:15:11 -0700 The Stranger Posted by local897]]> Wed, 06 Mar 2013 23:25:22 -0800 The Stranger
And if I didn't already know that emergency contraception was easily available (and that I already had the next day off work to get it sorted) I wouldn't have had the sex. But the LW is in the US where I keep hearing that BC is sometimes harder to get hold of?

If we are playing the "should have" game then perhaps what I "should have" done was gone on BC two years ago when I started doing sexual but non-pregnancy-causing stuff.
Posted by ISIHAC]]> Wed, 06 Mar 2013 03:42:51 -0800 The Stranger Posted by M1chelle]]> Tue, 05 Mar 2013 13:27:52 -0800 The Stranger Posted by KittyWrangler]]> Mon, 04 Mar 2013 22:05:51 -0800 The Stranger The second one I took gave me three months of slightly less bad side effects, then settled down. But...
Years later, I stopped taking it, suspicious that it was dampening some of my emotional responses, including libido. I immediately felt much better, and, well, much better. My moods are mine, and I'm glad to have them back. There was no change to my cycle.
I would go with condoms. Only a barrier method is going to prevent against STDs, and there are plenty of people out there passing those around.
Posted by Kyarochan]]> Mon, 04 Mar 2013 18:53:05 -0800 The Stranger
As I mentioned earlier, there's a great deal of evidence suggesting that college aged people are less likely to consider condoms important if they're on the pill. Yeah, in a perfect world people would use both, but in the real world, people (at least in that demographic) typically don't. So that's why it makes sense to treat it as an either or situation, though it certainly doesn't have to me.

@griz

Thanks :)
Posted by mydriasis]]> Mon, 04 Mar 2013 17:58:17 -0800 The Stranger That was one academic science I avoided--because I was afraid of possibly blowing up the classroom.
As a humbling result, I continue to suck at other forms of...chemistry.
Posted by auntie grizelda]]> Mon, 04 Mar 2013 17:20:49 -0800 The Stranger Posted by BeccaLiz]]> Mon, 04 Mar 2013 14:22:09 -0800 The Stranger
If you're serious about pregnancy prevention, using two methods is highly promoted.

If TIMELY is reading this, please just go talk to your doc.
Posted by squirrely girl]]> Mon, 04 Mar 2013 14:12:19 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Eirene]]> Mon, 04 Mar 2013 13:17:46 -0800 The Stranger
I minored in chemistry (and physiology) and majored in neuroscience. I'm taking some time out of school to work before going back again. :)
Posted by mydriasis]]> Mon, 04 Mar 2013 10:37:40 -0800 The Stranger Posted by seandr]]> Mon, 04 Mar 2013 09:37:44 -0800 The Stranger
Wait... do you actually think that Dan invented the application of "cis" and "trans" to sexuality? He didn't.

Besides, cis vs. trans molecules are classically diastereomers, not enantiomers, I mean, sure, a cis or trans molecule COULD be chiral as well (assuming there's at least one sp3 hybridized carbon as well as the two sp2 hybridized carbons that made up the cis or trans double bond), but cis or trans isn't referring to that property, dex/levo/R/S is.

Happy?
Posted by mydriasis]]> Mon, 04 Mar 2013 08:58:21 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Michael63]]> Mon, 04 Mar 2013 08:07:46 -0800 The Stranger Posted by GaucheG]]> Mon, 04 Mar 2013 00:55:11 -0800 The Stranger
Anyway, I'm sure your turtle is very nice.
Posted by mydriasis]]> Sun, 03 Mar 2013 18:59:10 -0800 The Stranger
Posted by Hunter78]]> Sun, 03 Mar 2013 17:53:44 -0800 The Stranger Posted by JillInTheCity]]> Sun, 03 Mar 2013 15:45:10 -0800 The Stranger
She wrote in saying she intended to go to college. Not that she absolutely positively never wanted to have children, which is a totally different thing. I don't think the problem is that she got the two confused.
Posted by IPJ]]> Sun, 03 Mar 2013 13:22:37 -0800 The Stranger Posted by GG1000]]> Sun, 03 Mar 2013 13:18:10 -0800 The Stranger