I probably have vaginismus and my experience with penetration is pretty similar to yours.

Cis women do enjoy and even seek out vaginal penetrative sex, I eventually realized. Part of how I figured out I was different was reading a thread of all the weird stuff women inserted while masturbating. I was suddenly like: “Oh! They must really want something up there! Look at the stupid, dangerous stuff they’re doing to experience that!”

There are things you can do medically if you genuinely want that kind of sex, but it’s useful to remember that sex isn’t just penetration. You literally never have to be penetrated to have enjoyable sex. It can be tough to find a partner, since PIV is the end goal of sex for lots of people (as is their perogative), but the world is also full of other types of people.

As for vocalization, the “oh fuck” (doc, it’s like sandpaper ripping me in half) and “oh fuck” (I’m having an overwhelming but positive physical sensation) are pretty different kinds of yells, and generally sound pretty different. Like people don’t cry just out of sadness, you know?

Investigators said that the two women initiated a verbal confrontation with the employees before taking a picture of their vehicles and walking away.

At this point, investigators said that Booth grabbed his personally owned pistol and fired a single shot in the direction of the women, hitting one of them in the lower body. He then got into his vehicle and drove away before he could be detained.

Committed the crime of hurting his feelings and then leaving peacefully. At least she’s still alive.

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article/13/9/20170484/50480/Do-linden-trees-kill-bees-Reviewing-the-causes-of The abstract here has some ideas.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kugel_fountain Is it this kind of thing you’re asking about?

What salt gun do you use? I’ve never heard of them and now I’m intrigued

Did you rape someone? In that case, engage in restitution for your victim(s) like Platner did not do. Turn yourself in to relevent authorities, if that is what your victims(s) want.

Maybe I wouldn’t want you in the Senate, as a rapist, where you would have more power and access to victims, but you could probably work in the background in politics or in your local council after you genuinely acted to make up for your behavior.

If you’re talking about saying bigoted shit on reddit, that is not the level we’re discussing anymore.

My issue with your comment was:

Even if she is telling the truth, she is a political operative first, and a victim second.

If she’s telling the truth, I don’t care if she’s a political operative, because what she’s telling the truth about is being sexually assaulted by Platner. If you are using the timing as a reason to believe she is lying, then I understand that. But I can’t imagine caring about her motivation if she is telling the truth.

I don’t care if she’s cynical or unlikable or politically motivated if he in fact raped her. He shouldn’t have done that if he didn’t want people to call him a rapist at inconvenient times.

The vice president also suggested if the Watergate scandal that led to the end of Nixon’s presidency happened tomorrow, “It would be like a 12-hour news story.”

He added, “The idea that it took down a presidency is crazy.”

The “for all the wrong reasons” bit in the headline confused me. It gave me the impression that people were talking about the wrong part of his speech, but I think its intended meaning was just that he was talking up Nixon and comparing him to Trump and himself in the first place. I guess my confusion got me to read the article, so it served its purpose?

edit: oh hey someone already made my point and was more succinct about it. It doesn’t look like things are federating properly in my direction right now. whoops!

they think they can still make money and gain power through their connection to him, maybe?

https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2024/09/groundbreaking-sls-study-documents-the-pathways-to-prison-for-those-experiencing-intimate-partner-violence

Another said: “He had us scared, both [my children] and me, that if I told anything to the police and they arrested him, he was going to get out and kill us.”

I think it’s fine that she killed her abuser, even if it wasn’t the exact moment a threat was made. In a way, I think it’s good if the killing happens in kidnapping cases like this one when the kidnapper is vulnerable, because the victim is more likely to survive. Poison, stabbing while they’re asleep, stealing the gun they used to threaten you and hitting them in the back - it’s cool. You tell someone they can’t leave or you’ll kill them, you are allowed to live exclusively on the whim of the person you threatened. That’s where my opinion gets a bit controversial, I think.

I started looking for cases where victims of rape were thrown in jail for killing their rapist as it was happening, and I immediately found several different incidents and got depressed.

Hope this explains why I think my view would be unpopular.

domestic violence

I think many dv situations (definitely not all) amount to kidnapping and you should legally be allowed to kill the person holding you against your will in order to escape.

This guy’s entire deal is that people like the name Kean in NJ politics. I wonder if he’ll coast in entirely on name recognition from people oblivious he’s been unable to do his job for ages. He could’ve stepped down and let another Republican have a shot, but that reduces the chance republicans have. It was held by a democrat before him and could be again.

You know, “went to times square” is very easy to understanding without the “l.” It reads informal, but I’d get it. The end part of your example would leave me wondering what was good. The friend? The time they had together? Was Times Square itself good? I don’t as easily fill in the subject like I did with the missing “I” at the start. I think it’s called “left edge omission?”

A dollar is worth what you can buy with it, which varies depending on where you live.

There’s a hint in the article where it says the 200 is the amount she received for selling livestock after her husband’s death. Looking at livestock markets, you can purchase more in Odisha livrstockwise than you could in my local markets for that amount.

If you meant you wouldn’t dig up your sister’s skeleton and drop it off at the bank for any amount of money, I definitely get that though. I know people who would find the process so enraging that they would do it for a dollar, though. Grief hits people differently.

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It’s natural to feel anxious when you’re doing things independently for the first time.

If you never feel comfortable doing these things without your folks, it’s a sign something is messed up. That’s not if you keep doing new things and feeling anxious about them, though. That’s if you are still feeling anxious setting up a dr’s appt alone when you’ve done it a hundred times already. I feel anxious about these things sometimes even though I’ve done it on my own for decades, and it turns out I have an anxiety disorder.

Hopefully, for you, doing these things will make you feel an increase in confidence, and in the future, you’ll know it’s doable. Bit by bit, you learn you can do things.

Is the problem motivation, or creativity? For motivation, there’s a reason writers in a coffeeshop is a cliche. It helps to get away from your regular situation and just have a notebook and a nice drink. Set a timer and that is your writing time. It doesn’t need to be good. You learn to write by doing it, a lot. You can go over it and edit later.

For creativity, read. Especially outside your normal interests. If you don’t read nonfiction or fiction, read some ones in the other space. Maybe a text about the history of sailing will inspire ideas for a mystery novel. You also learn what kind of writing you admire, and aspire to. What feels good in a sentence structure, and what doesn’t work for you.

Mostly, don’t hold too tightly to things if you’re just starting. Write a bunch of little stories, scenes, dialog. Maybe one of them you’ll love and want to polish up, but each time you write anything, you’re learning. Even if/especially if it sucks.

Sometime, find an art blog for someone you admire who’s been posting for years, and go back to the beginning and compare. Unless they’re an established professional since they started posting, you’ll notice a clear difference in quality. The same thing happens with writing.

A lot of the time i see stuff downvoted it’s because it’s more bait or someone’s weird rant turned into a question. It may not be a stupid question, but the asker doesn’t seem actually curious. They often come packed with weird assumptions, that have to be dealt with first, which would be cool if the asker was interested in being walked through it.

It’s the sincerity that’s missing! If someone asks why they have to wipe their asshole when everyone has a butler to hose them down after shitting, and it turns out they’re genuine and post a pic of their sad butler- oh. i thought of another reason why stuff gets downvoted. If it’s about bodily functions, I think people get grossed out and downvote. And there have been some that seemed like fetish material.

Lots of reasons, I guess? I think other than the bodily function one, the rest boil down to the perception of sincerity.