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When I've found out things about an SP she probably didn't want to publicize, I've always told her about it. It has consistently gotten a bad reaction, but I feel that she should really know if she's not being as secretive as she wants to be; hiding that I know just to avoid a fight means other...

Maybe if they weren't spending tens or hundreds of billions on pointless wars, subsidizing corrupt bankers, and locking up harmless druggies I'd start worrying about a million or two spent on a bit of possibly silly scientific research. But probably not; you never know which research will turn...

I've always thought there are more fake negative reviews than fake positive reviews. Fortunately, most of the fake reviews are pretty obvious; most of the guys who post them are idiots. So even if this guy follows through on his threat (and I'd also bet most of those who make such threats...

You're definitely safer if you never have sex with anyone. That's about the only thing that's safer, though; you're more likely to get an STD from your "monogamous" relationship when it turns out your partner did a bit of cheating after all than from a safe sex SP.

I've known a few SPs who have been willing to give detailed directions, though none went as far as fuji seems to be describing. But like a lot of others in this thread, I thought that made the session better. Since people have been asking who does this, Ciara @ DM gave me the most instruction...

Bah. Typical sensationalism, no context. Coffee probably kills hundreds each year in the U.S., maybe more. Sure, a lot more people drink coffee than this Monster stuff, and one would have to compare those numbers to sensibly assess exactly how dangerous the stuff really is, but 5 deaths since...

That's what the Swedish authorities say, claiming it's evidence that their policy is reducing prostitution in Sweden. It's based on misleading data, though; a closer examination of the evidence shows no significant increase in Denmark, so either Danish prostitutes are getting fewer Danish...

Fuji has it right, though you can get a clear picture of how the laws are enforced in Toronto by looking at the major agencies and the ads they run. The ads aren't hard to find, or subtle. The police know the agencies exist. They know what they do. Nonetheless, the major agencies don't get...

"Most weren't abused?" Among those where it was known whether there was a history of abuse or not, more were abused than not. You only get "most weren't abused" if you assume that most of the not known cases were no abuse cases. Since presumably these murders were investigated, it's kind of...

Actually, saliva seems to be bad for HIV. It's actually bad for a lot of other disease microbes; the mouth has lots of defenses to prevent you from getting sick every time you eat something. Of course, many diseases sometimes can get past the defenses, and some diseases are really good at it...

A number of studies have concluded that escorts actually have a lower STD rate than the general public. Admittedly STD rate in the general public is far higher than you probably think it is, so you shouldn't be completely reassured; "lower than the rate among the general public" is definitely...

Many of the described activities are either less likely than standard intercourse to spread disease or guaranteed not to (in the case of masturbation), and similarly many of them are not going to produce pregnancies. So if one is concerned about the health of children, it seems like this...

At least Texas is trying to do something about their dismally bad sex education.

I have to admit that my source is Tariq Ali, who is of course a novelist rather than a historian. I don't know what his sources were, and obviously it would be better to cite a historian, but none of the reviews I've seen of Ali's book have accused him of getting the historical details wildly...

The Crusades weren't directed against the Jews, but the crusaders massacred Jews in Jerusalem. Many Jews fought for Saladin against the crusaders because the policies of the Moslems toward the Jews were much more tolerant than those of the crusader kingdoms (ditto for some middle eastern sects...