pride

Don't be sorry. It's a legitimately frustrating topic.

 

On the subject, my husband came from a super fundamentalist family. And his sister came to me for advice, facts and information about sex and masturbation. Since I'm an atheist and sex positive, I gave her factual information. I told her it was okay to have sex, or masturbate, or not. I explained that it's best to start with masturbation because you can figure out what you like, or don't like, and sex has a lot of physical and emotional implications, such as pregnancy, STIs, guilt, etc etc etc. I told her whatever she decided for herself was the best decision and that I'd help her with information if she ever needed. I told her about birth control, hygiene, etc. Her family found out, because she felt so badly about lying by omission and going around her parents (but anytime she tried to talk to her mom, her mom told her she was too young, she was sixteen when this happened, to know about vaginas and masturbation, etc) and so she told her parents about it. So my mother in law told her entire family, extended, that I was a dirty perverted deviant. And one of hub's uncles said I was never allowed their children again.

Fuck that's an awful situation, sorry about that pal. Sex can be a very hush-hush topic in fundamentalist (and migrant) families. A lot of the time the parents believe they are protecting their children by not discussing it but they are invariably doing more harm than good.

Spacerocked! and SMELT. Daily Dare introduced me and I fell in love.

glad you enjoyed daily dare!

daily dare introduced me to AoB and I fell in love.

Virginity is just some shitty social construct that religious people used to please god. Virginity doesn't, and shouldn't mean shit these days.

Well said.

Although TV/movies/society in general has ingrained in the minds of a lot of teenagers (and young adults) that your first time is an intense, life-altering experience that must be shared with someone you love deeply. It is certainly life-altering... and awkward, and clumsy and messy and probably not all that great.

I've made 40 non-spam posts (a huge achievement for a long-term lurker) but I am unable to view the forum. Did I miss something?

edit: nvm, seems like 41 is the magic number. How interesting is it that this specific post brought me to 41...

Might have just nice passed the timing that the pet turns another day older?

Probably this. Seems to be working fine for me.

I'm trying to find pets that seem kinda old as well. I'm missing the battledome veteran avatar. no such luck yet.

if your neopet is too full to eat the cupcake try feeding it a rainbow melt pizza - sets their hunger to very full.