So much of the Penn State community's economy is dependent on football, I suppose the NCAA is really trying to walk the fine line so they don't overmuch punish the truly innocent.

I am packing for Las Vegas and ROLLERCON! How excited am I about a week of derby on skate classes, seminars and world class roller derby bouts? Go on, guess.

Rosie thinks a bed in the middle of the living room is the best idea ever.

I have heard worse ideas!

I am packing for Las Vegas and ROLLERCON! How excited am I about a week of derby on skate classes, seminars and world class roller derby bouts?

I'm going to guess SUPER FUCKING EXCITED!!!11!!

I don't know, Cash, you sound a little blase about it.

I can't believe I called a meeting for 8AM Monday morning, and was late DIALING IN FROM HOME. For god's sake. I was intending to be logged into the network by 8--I was just walking leisurely?

I also heard on the radio today that there will be no penalty on athletes who are recruited elsewhere and decide to play for another school. usually they have to sit out for a year, but not with those at PSU's football program.

a week of derby on skate classes, seminars and world class roller derby bouts

I can't believe that even exists! It sounds *so* fucking cool. I gotta remember--that for anything any group of people do, there's probably a convention of some ilk for it, where they nerd out and just do it when no one's paying to look. And talk about it forever too.

The amount to which Penn State and many other Universities depend upon football for revenue is grotesque, and I LOVE football.

I doubt the community will diversify enough to recover quickly, but anything it can do to lessen the dependence on one sport will be good.

ONE BED OR TWO? | Modern Mechanix

Apparently one bed is better than two for married couples.

Ours is an age of masculine self-doubt, masculine inadequacy in the area of sex. You would be amazed how many men are sexually afraid of their wives.

There was Harry X., for instance, a pleasant, handsome fellow of about thirty, still overattached to his widowed mother but yet in love with his good-looking wife.

In talking to the marriage counselor, both he and the wife were embarrassed. Neither wanted to complain of the other. But alone with the marriage counselor, the wife said: “We have sex about once or twice a month. It’s never very satisfactory. I practically never reach a climax. But I wouldn’t mind, if he would at least come into my bed and hug and kiss me before we go to sleep.”

The counselor spared the husband the embarrassment of explaining why he didn’t go into his wife’s bed. The counselor knew the reason. He tactfully suggested that they buy a double bed.

They did. The marriage improved. The husband found himself desiring sex more often. The wife dropped the pout from her pretty face. The man was proud of having pleased his wife.

Yay!

But it isn’t only the males in our society who are sexually inadequate. The number of sexually unresponsive women is appalling, some authorities putting the number as high as 40 per cent. The misery that frigidity of women causes in marriage is immeasurable. It is a common enough cause for divorce.

I hardly ever hear the term "frigid" or "frigidity" these days, but it seemed to be a big deal in the '60s, as I've seen other references back then.

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