Kristin the teacher-goddess

True love can change your life.. It changed mine.. Miracles can happen when you open your heart to life.. What do i mean by that? Allow me to explain.. When you're open and honest about your feelings, when you express yourself genuinely,.., you 'change the world' because you...

Killer Jeans: The Day Teen Rebellion Truly Died

Rebellion used to be so easy. All you had to do was grow your hair long, ride a motorcycle or cuss a lot in public. Maybe get an earring, a tattoo or even just start dressing really dark or slutty. Finding some...

Why do Republicans want to take away your condom or pill?

The Republican party likes to say they are the party of small government. Well, that is true when it comes to reducing pollution controls on factory owners, but when it comes to the nation's bedrooms, they are all for a war on sex. Presidential candidate Rick Santorum, who...

Is it totally stupid to give people the benefit of the doubt?

Have you ever given someone the benefit of the doubt or the credit that he or she did not deserve in the first place?  You knew that there was something really odd about this person, and yet you chose to be in a relationship or create a friendship with this individual,...

Shaving is Living: Lose the beard & try slowing it down this year

“Shaving” no longer suggests what it once did. At best, modern shaving is defined by hyper-kinetic commercials that morph razors into race cars and jet planes while ripple-ly muscled men in towels yank swishy...

Is compromising the ultimate lose-lose scenario?

Isn’t it literally mind-blowing to notice the importance that compromising holds inside this society?  It is so preponderant that all religious figures and all relationships gurus out there teach that a successful relationship has to be based on the decision to...

Doesn’t hearing “I love you” sometimes make you want to throw up?

The success of a relationship is measured by two main attributes: love and loyalty.  But how many times have you heard, “I love you!” or “I will always be there for you!” before finding yourself betrayed and humiliated by a partner to whom you had given all your...

Is a genuine friendship between a man and a woman possible?

Do you really believe that men are from Mars and women from Venus?  I do not.  Not all men and not all women behave identically.  This type of categorization is unreasonable and counter-productive, because it creates a scission between the two genders. ...

Should sex between consenting adults be a felony, if one is a tea

Should the government make it illegal, and a felony at that, for two consenting adults to have sex? Well, Republicans are actually pretty big on making certain acts of consenting adults, illegal. They are the strongest supporters of prostitution laws, a sizable percentage...

Are you sure that you are not better off being single?

What value resides in staying in a relationship that is suffocating you?  For what valid reasons would you choose to be involved in a relation that is a total negation of what you are?  Every single time you say “Yes” to your partner when in reality you want to...

Why should sex parties be the concern of the government?

Dan Savage is a sex columnist featured in many alternative newspapers. He is a gay rights supporter (along with being gay himself) and the originator of the It gets better project. He wrote in his most recent column: "Last week the Portland Press Herald reported about...

A Legal Lesson on the Penn State Scandal

          I have read many complaints about how long investigators "waited" to take legal action, and all these claims do is reinforce my understanding of how little the majority of the American public actually knows about the justice system.  ...

Bangkok Tshirt: Wrong

Image of the day : Wrong tshirt. A T-shirt at Bangkok weekend market.Source: http://www.schahryar.com/photoblog/495

Are you involved in a cult and do not know it?

Most individuals are highly averse to finding themselves completely alone, because society views aloneness as a proof of total social inadequacy.  This type of aversion solidifies the necessity to fit-in at all costs.  It is like an obligation.  As a result,...

Scaring Men Healthy: Pokey Czechs & Models with Testicles

For guys, getting old can actually be a good thing. Bad eyes and worse hearing can provide welcome relief from the sights and sounds of everyday idiots. Plus you’re never expected to change your mind about...

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