In the middle of the night on November 11, 2011, Jenn Shapland, a 24-year-old graduate student in the English…
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Undercover ICE Officer Reportedly Lured Workers at Ohio Garden Store with Donuts Before Massive Raid
A plainclothes federal officer walked into an Ohio gardening store early Tuesday and allegedly lured workers to…
The wall will be an environmental catastrophe within an area that has a great degree of ecological significance (and this goes for practically the entire length of the Rio Grande). I am in favor of actually enforcing our immigration laws (if you want more immigrants, change the damn law! which is fine by me by the… Read more
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Many feel the Trump administration’s proposed border wall is toxic and divisive. But in the Rio Grande Valley, it’s…
Activist Fighting ‘Anti-Male Bias’ on Campus Really Doesn’t Wanna Talk About His Old Harassment Suit
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I don’t see how anyone imagined this is a good idea, especially when you can’t use Today Sponge (a sponge actually made to go into your vagina while you have sex) while on your period due to risk of TSS. Also, having just pulled out a Today Sponge - which has a string on it to make removal easier! - I have a hard time… Read more
Fishing them out after being penetrated might not be for the faint of heart?? Might take a bit of time to get them out from the nether-regions of your body where they’ve been wedged in strange ways? Wow this sounds really romantic after a nice bout of sex, “Would love to cuddle, but now I’ve got to contort myself in… Read more
The official party line on period sex nowadays is that a menstruating woman’s partner should be cool and chill with this natural human occurrence, and that people who refuse to have sex with period-having humans are immature and ignorant. Read more
By choosing to ‘share’ this information, you’ve effectively subjected thousands of women and teens to the idea that they can use cosmetic sponges. All anyone sees is the synopsis with a photo of the sponges they should never use, for the hundreds of thousands who never actuallyread the article. Read more
I’m not a woman, and even I can tell this is horrible, horrible advice. Just put down a towel or two. Read more