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Why do businesses have separate male/female restrooms even when they’re single-person?

the-womanifesto:

I just do not understand this. At my work and plenty of other places, there are two single-toilet bathrooms. You go inside and lock the door. Except they’re separated by male and female. There is nothing special or different about them. They’re identical bathrooms. Why is this necessary?

I’ll even see a line of women (because we always have the lines) waiting outside the single-toilet women’s bathroom and the men’s will be wide open. I’m definitely that chick that’s gonna go piss in the dude room. I can handle the sight of a urinal and they won’t die if they see a tampon wrapper in the trash can.

The bathrooms at my job are completely identical, except the soap dispenser in the men’s room actually works. There is no point in gendering them. I want to pry those little signs off the doors.

PIV sex and sex-related agony

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You wanna read something that’s really stupid and awful?

well-behavedwoman:

Here are the 8 standards set out by federal law to define an adequate abstinence-only sex education program:

THE FEDERAL DEFINITION OF ABSTINENCE-ONLY EDUCATION

According to federal law, an eligible abstinence education program:

A) has as its exclusive purpose, teaching the social, psychological, and health gains to be realized by abstaining from sexual activity;

B) teaches abstinence from sexual activity outside marriage as the expected standard for all school-age children;

C) teaches that abstinence from sexual activity is the only certain way to avoid out-of-wedlock pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases, and other associated health problems;

D) teaches that a mutually faithful monogamous relationship in the context of marriage is the expected standard of human sexual activity;

E) teaches that sexual activity outside the context of marriage is likely to have harmful psychological and physical effects;

F) teaches that bearing children out-of-wedlock is likely to have harmful consequences for the child, the child’s parents, and society;

G) teaches young people how to reject sexual advances and how alcohol and drug use increase vulnerability to sexual advances; and

H) teaches the importance of attaining self-sufficiency before engaging in sexual activity.

Source: U.S. Social Security Act, §510(b)(2).

o.O

Clark-Hatfield Sexual Proposal can suck my dick…

weirdsociology:

Refutation of that gawd-awful quasi-evolutionary study about men being more likely to have casual sex says what I’ve been saying all along.   The study was inherently flawed because, if a hot opposite-gendered stranger walks up to you on campus and says, “Hey, wanna bone?” the risk of a male saying yes is getting an STD or not having a good time, whereas the risk for a woman is being raped and killed.  Of course we say no!  If I could, somehow, absolutely for-sure know the dude was not going to kill or physically harm me, damn RIGHT I’d say yes.

Where it gets super-interesting, though, is her conclusion: the new study indicated that it was not, in fact, the gender of the person being proposed to that had any effect whatsoever on whether or not the person accepted the proposal.  It was, in fact, the perception of their own safety and their perception that the individual proposing would be good in bed.  So women are not likely to say yes to a man who comes up on campus and asks them to fuck because they think they won’t have a good time and they don’t know if he’s safe.  Social standing, faithfulness, and gift-giving— in other words all those factors that stupid so-called evolutionary sexual theorists have been spouting as the reason for women making the mating choices that we do— had absolutely no bearing on their acceptance of a random proposal.  It’s about: a.) is this going to be pleasurable for you? with a side-order of b.) are you safe? 

TAKE THAT, SEXUAL EVOLUTIONARY THEORY.  THIS STRANGER WOULD LIKE TO INVITE YOU TO SUCK HER DICK.

And that’s your science DUH for today.

bonerhedges:

Is mutual masturbation a real thing? I don’t get how fapping next each other is any better than banging.

The following is TMI, but:

When homeboy is doing his damndest but my brain is being stubborn and just will not let it happen by any means other than my own very specific, um, techniques. Same goes for him. We’re both notoriously hard to get off, so sometimes it’s just more satisfying (and a whole lot less work) to watch each other.

Sex Ed 101: How does someone get pregnant? Featuring original artwork by Rabble

rabbleprochoice:

Okay, so the above is an amazing artist’s representation of a vagina. The green bits are the ovaries, the purple are the fallopian tubes, and that thing in the blue? That’s the cervix.

People who have ovaries do not continually produce eggs during their lifetime. They are basically born with all the eggs they ever release already hanging out in those sexy ass ovaries. The ovaries hold the eggs until maturity. When one is ready to be released, that asshole travels into the fallopian tubes like so:

THIS IS WHAT OVULATION IS.

(It is important to note, however that eggs can be released when they aren’t supposed to so even if you aren’t ovulating you should use a condom or some other type of contraceptive while having sex unless you are trying to get pregnant.)

So while the egg is travelling down the fallopian tubes those asshole ovaries start producing chemicals which help thicken the uterine lining. The egg, should it be fertilized, really likes it when they do that because it makes a nice comfy couch for that fertilized egg to chill out on:

If a person does not have sex while they are ovulating and the egg is not fertilized it travels down and is either shed with the lining (this is what causes a period) or reabsorbed by the body. The egg and the ovaries are assholes because they cause periods like so:

When a person DOES have sex while they’re ovulating…well…we need introduce something first. THIS is a penis:

The purple part is the actual penis, the orange bit there is the testicle (one is shown, but there are usually two), which is held in the scrotum. That yellow blob is the bladder and the blue tubing going on is called different things depending on where you’re pointing but it delivers urine and sperm, so it’s the urethra once you get into the penis. There are some other parts in this whole mechanism but they’re unimportant to this process.

The testicles produce the sperm. Unlike people with ovaries, people with penises are constantly creating sperm, whereas people with ovaries start out with their lifetime supply of eggs.

Sperm determine the sex of the fetus because they carry different types of chromosomes. The little dudes up there are an artist’s representation of what happy sperm would look like while they are chilling out in the testicles.

Now that we’ve covered that, what happens when people are having baby-making sex?

Well the penis ejaculates sperm onto/at the cervix during orgasm (it’s surprising how many people think the penis actually enters the cervix, it does not and it would be HORRIBLY PAINFUL if it did).

Meanwhile that little cervix up there is about to be affected by a vaginal orgasm. When the vagina orgasms, the cervix sort of dips and pulls sperm into the reproductive tract like so:

Obviously, not every sex act ends with a vaginal orgasm so the sperm are going to get all up past the cervix whether the vagina orgasms or not, the vaginal orgasm just helps them move along. Then the fun part begins:

Okay…so this artist rendition isn’t entirely accurate. The sperm aren’t technically fighting each other, they are fighting time, the acidity of the vagina, the cervical mucus, and not getting lost in their search for the egg all while trying to swim faster than their sperm siblings.

When a sperm reaches the egg (along with others) it has to fight to get through it faster than any others. THIS IS NOT FERTILIZATION.
 

When the first sperm penetrates the egg’s outer layer, it changes immediately and no other sperm are able to get inside it. They eventually die.

The DNA of the sperm combines with the DNA of the egg. THIS IS FERTILIZATION.

Once the DNA swap has occurred (fertilization) the fertilized egg starts dividing quickly.

It is now an EMBRYO. The cell division with the new DNA code (indicated by the purple dots) is taking place inside what was once the fertilized egg while the embryo travels down the uterus in order to implant on the uterine wall. This does not always happen and the embryo is expunged from the uterus. If it does happen, it is now a pregnancy (see picture below, the green embryo should be a bit higher but I was too lazy to redraw it). An embryo can implant on other things inside the vulva and when this happens, like in a fallopian tube, for example, the embryo needs to be removed either through medication or surgery because those nasty buggers like to irreparably damage one’s reproductive organs or, you know, kill your ass.

Then the embryo develops some more and blah, blah, blah….10 months (YES, 10 months) later, you get an infant passing through the vagina bits (or being ripped out of the uterus via c-section) and forever changing your body.

Are we all clear on how babies are made now? Mississippi, I’m looking at you.

Love,

Rabble