And She Was...

In my bedroom, there is a bottle of Astroglide.

In Naomi's room, there is also a bottle of Astroglide-we use it for the thermometer.

As I was taking her temperature this morning, because she felt rather warm, a thought crossed my mind.

I think the bottle of Astroglide in Naomi's room has been used more often than the Astroglide in my room.

Note: Naked woman on the cover a magazine at the first link.

Beth Ditto on the cover of NME (I think it's the current issue of NME, but I haven't gotten NME regularly in a while.) It's getting a mixed response, with some people horrified that there's a naked fat woman with hairy armpits on the cover a magazine, and others talking about how empowering it is to see her there. And there's a variety of responses to what she said about gay men and celebrities being to blame for the body image/self hatred issues as well.

Also, interesting blog post on feminist messages and abstinence only education. Or rather, the anti-feminist/anti-empowered woman messages that exist in such programs.

And, in contrast, and for your amusement...abstinence only sites courtesy of Whitehouse.org ¹

Sex is for Fags-an abstinence only site for boys.
Iron Hymen an abstienence only site for girls.

1. Whitehouse.org is a humor site/spoof site, not a real site.

This morning, we went for Cayne's second semen analysis. I know some people have asked about it, and Cayne has consented to my writing about it. It was, admittedly, both humiliating and amusing all at once. So, since a great deal of stuff in my life seems to end up on LJ, and since some people have been asking about it, I offer a poll.

[Poll #930861]

(Bob/Jen, I'd like to post this in VP, let me know if you want me to post it in the V-Day discussion post, or if I should just make a separate post about it.)

Hoohaa Monologues???

( We decided we would just use child slang for it. That's how we decided on Hoohah Monologues, )

(This is the comment I left in fairion's journal, regarding this article.)

For the link phobic/in case the text disappears, look behind the cut.

( NY Teacher Reassigned After Complaint About Anatomy Drawings )

"Turtle Sex" on Google Video
Turtle Sex

barking_iguana sent me the above video. I don't know if I ever told him the following story, or he just thought I would be amused by the video, but here's my story about turtle sex.

I spent some time working for a program called Youth Enrichment Services. They were a partly-town funded youth program that provided after school, weekend and summer programs for teenagers, and summer programs for elementary kids as well. Part of my job involved running the Summer Day program which was an partly educational, partly day care type program for the five to twelve year olds. Each week we had a theme that we based our education and arts and crafts programs on, and often, our field trips as well. One week, our theme was "reptiles" which included a trip to the Reptile Museum. We went through part of the museum, and in the middle there was a pen, with large tortoises of several varieties. They sat the kids down around the edge, and periodially, there was a docent who would come and talk about various animals and the kids could touch them and see them and hold snakes and things. So my kids (about 30 5-12 year olds, plus my staff, 2 CITs who were thirteen, and six fifteen and sixteen year old counselors) are trying to get the kids settled, when one tortoise mounts another. I hear snickering and giggling. I turn around and see what the tortoises are doing. And I cringe. I'm not the one who needs to be explaining what the animals are doing to someone else's five year old, nor should any of my staff-this is one of those things where you don't want to step on someone else's parenting-toes.. I grab my counselors and through my own snickers and giggles, tell them to please keep it under control, if they need to step away, that it's fine. I find a co-worker who is helping to chaperone the trip, and we have a good giggle over it. Then, the docent begins her presentation. And one of my older kids (I think he was eleven) raises his hand and immediately asks "Is that turtle going to get pregnant?" The docent handled it marvelously and said "no, they're different kinds of turtles."

So, I've seen up close tortoise sex. And it's not pretty.

I do like being a redhead. When I was a kid, I didn't appreciate it. But as I got older, I learned to love it. And perhaps this story has something to do with why.

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1954958.html

(And for the link phobic...you can ( click the cut tag )

I saw this the other day, and forgot to post it here...

Men who have several older brothers have an increased chance of being gay — whether they were raised together or not — a finding researchers say adds weight to the idea that sexual orientation is based in biology.

( in case it vanishes...or, 'It Might Be Mom's Immune System's Fault' )

As I was cutting up some chicken to go in a stir fry for Cayne's lunch, I had Oprah on the TV. She's interviewing author Terry McMillian (of the semi-autobiographical How Stella Got her Groove Back and Waiting to Exhale and others) and her ex-husband, Johnathan Plummer, who revealed to Terry that he was gay.

During the early part of the program, Oprah was discussing with Terry McMillan how Johnathan revealed his sexual orientation to Oprah, and how, at the time he revealed to her that he is gay he also said that he'd never been intimate with a man. Terry McMillian responded with, "That's like saying you're an alcoholic without ever having had a drink."

It's a frequent refrain, "How can you know you're lesbian/gay/bisexual if you've never had sex with a MOTAS¹?

So, how did you know about your own sexuality...gay, lesbian, bisexual, straight, whatever label you choose to apply? Before or after you started having sex? Did you ever question it? How do you feel about what Terry McMillian said to Johnathan-do you think people can know before they try it?

(Anon posting on, IP logging off, so go ahead an answer anonymously if you like-also, feel free to link to this post and encourage other people to answer, and mactavish I can re-post it Friday to bisexual as a QOTW if you like.)

1. Member Of The Appropriate Sex