Huh, I'll have to knock thinkprogress down a notch or two in my source reliability book, then. Thankyou, that explains why I couldn't find anything else about it.

You just miscounted.

Thursday - day 0
Friday - day 1
Saturday - day 2
Sunday - day 3
Monday - day 4
Tuesday - day 5
Wednesday - day 6
Thursday - day 7
Friday - day 8

I just spotted this article on facebook: http://thinkprogress.org/health/2015/01 ... -abortion/
It doesn't seem to have been picked up by my other news sources. Do you guys know anything about it?

Maybe the old trick of using a hand mirror to have a look at your vulva, and then having a gentle poke around, might help? So long as you cut and file your fingernails first, you're really at no risk of hurting yourself - just like ordinary skin, you'll feel pressure, then discomfort, then pain long...

There are no bad side effects of masturbation itself. Problems can happen - if someone is spending so much time masturbating that they don't have time for study or work; or if their beliefs (about religion, about masturbating while in a relationship, or something like that) make them feel bad afterw...

I too would recommend against ripping duct tape off, since that stuff is mighty damn sticky and there's a not insignificant risk of taking some skin off with it. Using other types of tape which are less powerfully adhesive, or something like a big sticking plaster (which, after all, is designed to c...

I totally get that, accessibility is just as important as inclusiveness; I also had completely failed to notice that the article was from 2007 originally! Sorry about that.

No, you're right - it's not a failing of tumblr at all. But you go into some spaces geared up for the possibility of people saying horrible things, and tumblr isn't one of those spaces for me. Social change is a funny thing - when you're near the front of it, it can be easy to forget how many pocket...

It must be the relief of not needing the heating on to get naked comfortably.

I wonder if 01/01 is the default date when you sign up? :P My other site has "Male" as the default gender option, and it's always amusing to see that in a community which is about 80% female by most accounts, about 80% of our users have "Male" on their profiles. Either way, happy...

I don't know how many of you guys have heard of Leelah Alcorn: she was a trans teen in the US, who killed herself a few days ago, having left a suicide note online. Since she came out to her family, they'd been as unsupportive as they possibly could, had punished her for being trans, and had forced ...

Redskies sort of mentioned this in their response, but if changing your parents' minds isn't a good option - it certainly sounds like doing that is gonna be difficult, and honestly, you're not obliged to explain your reasoning to them or satisfy them that you're making decisions well - then would it...

There's a supermarket near me which did a rather smart thing, and just has a row of single bathrooms, no sex/gender signage, and they're all accessible. All "three" bathrooms fitted into the space that would usually be occupied by one.

Now if only they cleaned them occasionally...

You can also get a certain amount of privacy by being in public - in a place where no-one knows you and no-one is interested in what you're saying. So maybe you could go for a meal with him, or go to the cinema or somesuch, and talk there? Or even just let your parents know that you need to have a s...

It feels different for everyone, really. We have this tendency to put sex on a pedestal like it's totally incomparable, but it's not - you probably already know what it's like to physically feel skin on skin; to feel emotionally connected and intimate with someone; to feel aroused and excited - and ...

Hehe, the idea that there is a label for people who think labels are for soup cans tickles me. I'm going through one of those weird fluctuations lately, where I still identify as pan but am mostly interested in women right now - back when I used to identify as bi I called it "riding the bi-cycl...

May I ask, with the dates, what was it you were scared/anxious about that made you freeze up? There's absolutely nothing wrong or horrible in wanting to find a romantic partner. All the things romantic relationships can provide - love, intimacy, support and so on - can be really positive things, whi...

Just human diversity, really, much like some people don't like cheese.

It's also totally cool not to ever find yourself feeling horny - the barrier that most people have around sex is "Ooh bad don't do that", which is why so much sex positive media is on the "Yes! Try it!" side; but in reality, sex positivity is about your sexual choices being based...

Just to throw a spanner in the works, the only plant that I've owned myself so far was a lovely yellow thing which did reasonably well with me, until I went to visit family and gave it to a neighbour to look after while I was away. It absolutely blossomed under her care, and when I got back it despe...

Awesome, I'm glad it went well! How's it looking?

I get what you're saying at the end there, moonlight, and I agree to some extent, but not all the way. It's totally true that all the meaning we attach to stuff - to our interactions with other people, circumstances, events etc. - is all socially constructed; none of it has a basis in the "real...

In regard to the body positivity stuff, I wonder if it might be helpful to hunt around for some ace (asexual) social media too? Whatever your sexuality, I can imagine that people in the ace community might have a bit more of the attitude you're trying to get into, of "Yes, sex is great and wond...

Good luck! I hope it comes out brilliantly

We saw Heather's quote about interpretive dance on tumblr, and my partner and I agreed that we do freestyle disco: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTchxR4suto (just hoping that will make you feel a bit less worried about doing it wrong, Atlaos )