Posts by Megan Wegan
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Up Front: It's Not Sex, and It's Not Education, in reply to Lilith __,
The shape I think. It's sort of...long with a rounded end. Someone once gave me one
Someone once gave you one? Surely you could get one again?
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Up Front: It's Not Sex, and It's Not Education, in reply to Emma Hart,
You mean, the way everyone helped me with the Willy Wonka brain explosion?
Hey, I'd like to point out, I nearly came on, and said "Quick, Emma's meeting David, open season on chocolate/candy/music/cake puns. Let's see if we can make her head explode when she gets back". And I didn't. I was a very good girl. I must deserve some kind of medal.
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Up Front: It's Not Sex, and It's Not Education, in reply to Emma Hart,
Who can take tomorrow
Dip it in a deam
Seperate the sorrow
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Up Front: It's Not Sex, and It's Not Education, in reply to Lilith __,
when Emma invited me round to hers for a party I introduced myself to people as Lilith because that just seemed less confusing. Is that weird?
I had no idea that wasn't your real name.
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Up Front: It's Not Sex, and It's Not Education, in reply to Emma Hart,
To balance that, there are things that I would say on such a thread that I wouldn't say anywhere else.
I am pseudonymous, but basically assume most of the people talking here, if not reading, actually know who I am. Which is why I am more reticent here, than I am on Twitter, for example, because I can control who can see what, over there.
It has been brought home to me recently, in fairly spectacular fashion, how much I value that control.
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Up Front: It's Not Sex, and It's Not Education, in reply to Emma Hart,
We're still hiding away in corners and having them under pseudonyms. Please accept that when we speak, for all the air of carelessness and joy, we are speaking from long, painful, hard-won experience.
One of the things I most treasure about knowing you, is how much more open about this stuff you have made me. There are times when it still makes me uncomfortable, but the more often I do it, the easier it gets. Um. So to speak.
For all that I made you start calling you a feminist, you made *me* the sex-positive part. Talking about it _is_ important. Owning what you like, is important. If only so other people can feel better about owning what they are into. Because the more people that talk about sex and relationships, the easier it'll get for everyone - to bring it back to the original column. That's a huge deal. But then, so is having the space to do all that in your own way, and on your own terms. (ETA: Which is where the difference between how I wish life was, and how it actually is, lies.)
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Up Front: It's Not Sex, and It's Not Education, in reply to George Darroch,
I love this thread.
This is rapidly approaching my favourite thread _ever_.
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Up Front: It's Not Sex, and It's Not Education, in reply to Deborah,
I’m just saying that OPERA is awesome, and for most people it is or could be the source of great happiness, so for some people who think it’s all a bit meh they could benefit from thinking more broadly and adventurously about what OPERA can be and what it can mean to them.
Also, I'm not sure that's quite the right analogy. Sex is music, surely? Some people, like me, will never really get it. (Music, that is.) They'll be happy with the worst pop, comfortable with what they know. They'll have a handful of tunes they love deeply, the rest just being background noise. They might occasionally stray onto a little bit of opera, and decide it's not for them. Or, they might hate opera with a fiery passion, but be consumed by a love of hip hop. Maybe they're deaf, and can't enjoy it as much as they'd like to, or just are not interested at all. Or, they might voraciously consume anything they can get their hands on, delighted by notes and melodies and voices and rhythm. They might be willing to experiment with different artists and genres and spend a lot of their time and money trying to find new and interesting ways to appreciate music. Maybe they'll spend years learning an instrument.
And now, there's nowhere I can take the analogy without making many instrument puns, so I'll stop before I gross everyone out.
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Up Front: It's Not Sex, and It's Not Education, in reply to Deborah,
Could we go back to talking about sex?
I'd make the point that it is by no means just religions that seem to have an interest in telling other people how to have sex. And why how they are doing it is wrong.
Which is something I will never understand. (Beyond, you know, safety, as already discussed for 20 pages.)
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Up Front: It's Not Sex, and It's Not Education, in reply to Russell Brown,
I don’t think there are many young men who’d say no to a nice hand job.
Not in my experience, no.