I made homemade lime cordial this weekend. This might solve the gimlet wars!

Cool! I was going to make that. But then I was lazy.

So I'm glad to hear it's yummy and am inspired to try to make it.

Any tips?

I'm 51. I don't anticipate making it to 102. 80? I don't know.

I am not in guacamole.

But I may be middle-aged. Also, I have squandered enough spring break with WoW, Facebook, and fanfic, and tomorrow I must Do Something. Help me, Natter, you may be my only hope.

Any tips?

I would recommend trying it with the ginger; I didn't. Also, I used only two cups of sugar and it was a little sweet. Finally, the stated amount of limes only ended up with about 60g of peel so be aware. More peel might be even better.

Thanks, bon!

I thought the latest thinking was that the g-spot was actually part of the clitoris, or all connected, or something. Advancements in anatomical knowledge, 3-D imagery?

That's what I've been reading. That's it's a relatively huge contiguous body, and its proximity to the vaginal wall is responsible for the vaginal orgasm. But there's a really really clumsy article on jezebel (which completely ignores the previous existence of the large clitoris article a week or so ago on IO9), and I had thought it was actually a dead issue for women, say 30 and younger anyway. Like, even for my age, it's had a lot of falloff. Then again, I haven't cracked an issue of Cosmo in quite a while, and aren't they backhandedly shaming you for not having *every* sort of orgasm possible?

aren't they backhandedly shaming you for not having *every* sort of orgasm possible?

Oh, sure. Orgasms are the new perfect cup of coffee when your man gets home from work.

...to be fair, I haven't read Cosmo in probably >10 years, so I'm being glib.

Huh. The only time I've heard of the vaginal orgasm vs clitoral orgasm issue was in an anthropology class, so over 20 years ago, and it was dismissed as old-fashioned and irrelevant then.

Apparently it's still actually under debate. How is it we don't know these things? Is this a sexist thing, or a sexual thing - i.e., a disinclination to study sexual anatomy? Are we this unsure about penile anatomy?

This has been some of the most interesting Wikipedia reading I've done for a long time, I'll tell you that. Anatomical researchers are down right witty:

"I think that the bulk of the evidence shows that the G-Spot is not a particular thing," stated Barry Komisaruk, head of the research findings. "It's not like saying, 'What is the thyroid gland?' The G-Spot is more of a thing like New York City is a thing. It's a region, it's a convergence of many different structures."

(um, NSFW if you've got pictures on, but you can probably figure that out on your own. Unless your work is in a biology department. YBMV.)

(EATA: Really I just wanted an excuse to use the beagle expression again.)

jilli! did you see this art made from real blood?

Oooh, no I had not. That is astonishing and haunting.

(And I'm very amused to have read your post after coming home from B&N, where I finally managed to get one of their pretty red leather-bound editions of Dracula. I feel like my cliche card has been nicely stamped for the evening.)

Now that I'm 40, I feel like "middle-aged" should be, like, 53. (I picked that arbitrarily.) Because my brain feels like it's 25. Seriously.

I'm in the camp of "middle-aged" is, like, 70 something. Mostly because I refuse to believe my Dad is middle-aged, much less myself.