Leia Weathington and Byron Beck grab hands and yank the show down an educational path. A sex-educational path. As in Leia’s history with sex-education in the midwest is pretty damned backwards. Not as bad as Byron’s history with sex-education, which is continual, on-going, and frequently confused. A conversation on The Mediocre Show leads to a discussion about condom usage, and whether there’s any way to get condom use to feel like less a necessary chore, and more like a natural part of safe sex practices. And then we dip our toes in a couple weird bits of male hypocrisy: Why aren’t there highly-effective, widely available forms of MALE birth control, and why aren’t dudes in line to get them? And what is it about wine that causes some dudes to turn up their nose at it in favor of watered down urine in a Budweiser can?
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Yes, “frottage” rhymes with “fromage.” No, it is not rubbing penises together. It is the practice of getting sexual stimulation by surreptitiously rubbing up against someone, ideally without them noticing, typically in a crowded environment (such as a subway). If you get caught, you can try to act like you weren’t actually doing it on purpose.
I thought it also meant mutually enjoyed dry-humping.
There are a ton of male contraceptive pills, injections, etc. being developed right now. According to the people developing a handful of them they aren’t ready to be pushed onto the market because they have hormonal side effects, and it just wont be acceptable to push these drugs onto the market like that. Ya know, just like female contraceptives……
The pill is a devil’s game, and I hope I never have to fuck with it because my hormonal stages are fragile enough as it is. But it also cannot be understated what a huge impact the pill had on women’s sexual liberty and overall individual freedom back in the day. I think that may have been one of the reasons it was pushed out with those side effects in tact. Or they just wanted to make a buck or two. Oh big pharma.
With men, there’s really no burden to be liberated from when it comes to contraceptives. Sure, it sucks to father an unwanted child, but history tells a million stories of such cases where the father fucks off and the mother has to bear the consequences. They’ve probably also done market research which suggests men wouldn’t get on them pills if there were side effects in store, whereas women back in the day were just looking for ANY way to decide whether they got preggers or not.
If any one wants the advice of a trusted medical professional on contraception you can’t have it but here is an essay I wrote about it.
http://ahappygoluckyscamp.wordpress.com/2011/02/03/the-contraceptive-mambo/
Put an avocado seed back in the guacamole to help keep it fresh, but the saran wrap generally works better if you have it.
My dad was the big beer drinker, my mom loves wine. Beer was always around during the weekends (along with weed) but I never got into both. I dabbed a bit in beer, a sip here, sip there, but never liked it. Wine? I got into wine coolers first, and that lead me to enjoying wine as is. I don’t booze it up too much, but there was a time I didn’t want any kind of spirits messing my head up. Not for any reason other than “got to maintain my brain”. In the last 10 years though, I’m thinking “let’s get polluted a few times a year”, generally during the holidays. If I found a beer that was decent, maybe I’d get more into it, but then again, maybe that’s the wrong approach to beer.