And I wonder, what possible catastrophe came crashing down from heaven and brought this dashing stranger to tears?

Drusilla ,'Conversations with Dead People'


Natter 78: I might need to watch some Buffy for inspiration

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.

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erikaj - Oct 27, 2025 11:59:40 am PDT #9908 of 9910
Always Anti-fascist!

I used to watch Cops sometimes, but I stopped because it showed so many women/girls who were clearly sick or in withdrawal, coughing and shaking or whatever, and just this line of disgusting dudes, wanting their two minutes.(I've got urges, too, a great many of which go unsatisfied, so in one sense, if people wanted to hang out at the Chicken Ranch, you know, I'd kind of get it. )Not to open up that kind of debate or imply that my disability means nobody'd touch me till the debit went through or anything like that...just saying, in one sense it would be good for some people to have a place to go. But I hope I'd never have the kind of urges that would make that seem okay.


DavidS - Oct 27, 2025 1:09:54 pm PDT #9909 of 9910
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

I didn't mean to kill the thread with the abiding horrors of the kyriarchy.

in one sense it would be good for some people to have a place to go.

In Japan there's a legal form of prostitution where men go into a place, lie down on a table and a woman gives them a handjob. The end. No beatings. No STDs. No pimps.

I don't know if I'm really advocating for that, but there does seem to be a direct relationship between the puritanical need to deny sexuality and the inevitable outcome being illegal, abusive, exploitive sex.

In the Netherlands they accept that people want sex, they teach sex ed at an early age, abortions are legal and affordable and they have very low teen pregnancy rates.


erikaj - Oct 27, 2025 1:33:11 pm PDT #9910 of 9910
Always Anti-fascist!

Oh, babe, you know I could go darker, right?(Not taking that as a challenge right now, but it really does amuse me to break up little games like" Who Would You Be In 1908?" by saying "Possibly dead, next to my dead mom." and some days not adding "bled-out" too seems like a favor to the kids. But for some of us, as much as I'd love to say "Shikse Emma Goldman", I know what I know. But if I could blow up Theme Park History at the same time, at least something worthwhile would have come from it.) I'm on Team Netherlands, I think.


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