Nobody gave us an instruction manual, and many dudes are afraid of just straight up asking about their partner’s preferences, for some reason. Likely they don’t want it to look like they don’t know what they’re doing, even if it turns out they don’t.

Also, some probably (wrongly) think that’s what their penis is for, so what’d be the point?

Hard disagree. In all the healthier relationships I’ve been in, I want selfies of them (especially while they’re doing something fun), simply because I love them and want to see them enjoy themselves. Ideally, you’d also find your partner pleasant to look at.

As for the dick pics: have you never sexted before?

Your view is probably true of anyone who is sending dick pics unprompted, but there are plenty of scenarios where the pictures are being taken expressly for someone else, because both parties have already established mutual interest. I never take selfies unprompted, and I wouldn’t take a dick pic for no reason, but I’ve taken plenty of both to exchange with partners in the past when we couldn’t be together at the time.

Isn’t the original painting the Titan Saturn (Cronus) devouring his son?

FWIW I’m amab and I have a similar soul patch of armpit hair, so you’re at least at parity with a dude. Just the way it be sometimes 😭

I also can’t grow facial hair, but that’s a separate question

That one probably isn’t really ideology so much as strategic necessity. To my understanding, China is a major energy importer, with a dependence on fossil fuels coming in via the South China Sea. They’re in an exceptionally vulnerable position because a blockade wouldn’t be particularly difficult to implement there (at least, if their opponent is the US), so any degree of energy independence they can give themselves is imperative.

Oh, lovely.

Bitwarden hasn’t steered me wrong yet.

The real answer is that if they have the tech to cross interstellar distances, they can probably just lab grow human meat or even full grown humans.

Perhaps, though, the fear is part of the experience?

Two days after this the word was EERIE (fucked up), so that’s actually not too much letter repetition.

Young Sheldon (Earth-314)

Pop Culture Detective’s The Adorkable Misogyny of The Big Bang Theory is a good video essay on (at least why I hate) the show.

I have heard Young Sheldon is actually better, but it’s not exactly working from fertile soil, and it sounds like a lot of character growth moments that happen in Young Sheldon are seemingly forgotten by the time the main show rolls around.

Pretty sure you’re correct. Seems like it’s just a miscommunication around the word ‘deep’, with one person meaning deeply hidden and the other meaning deeply ingrained.

But then what will I gnaw on like a beaver in order to collect the final, crispy fragments?

The equivalent is probably somebody who went down the TikTok Star -> Onlyfans path.

Oh, certainly. I’m not saying it’s as common as it was in antiquity or anything (that’s why I used the word can, same as you) just that 1-2%, while still horrific in the context of modern, industrial population sizes, doesn’t come close to our all-time greats of genocidal fuckery in the modern era.

Iirc Poland lost like 20% of its population in WW2, so modern warfare can definitely put up some numbers too.

Nah, or at least, that wasn’t how it was intended. What I was saying is that the data set (people commenting on this post about their opinions on the matter) is biased by the fact that people who dislike it are much more likely to voice their opinions than those who like it, as dislike is the more socially acceptable position.

I’m not saying that your read of the data is biased. Rather, I’m saying that the data that you’re seeing is itself biased because it’s reliant on voluntary self-reporting; the fetish can be more common than you’d think and underrepresented here at the same time, because they’re not actually mutually exclusive if the sample isn’t a representative cross-section.

A fate worse than death

Nor did I imply that you were.

Tbf if I was into the step sibling shit, then not even Guantanamo could get that info out of me - you take that to the grave lmao. You’re just seeing selection bias imo