By David Futrelle
Here’s a little public pubic service announcement for all lesbians, as offered by a very public pubic-spirited fellow who couldn’t possibly have an ulterior motive or anything but who nonetheless might be available to assist any lesbians who wish to act upon the important information he is conveying.
This little nugget of wisdom — I’m not sure where it’s originally from — was posted the other day to the ActualLesbians subreddit, where it was not greeted with as much gratitude as one might have expected. Indeed, there seemed to be widespread skepticism about these important scientific findings.
Some even had the temerity of suggest that lesbians could just as easily get the D from trans lesbians, bypassing that whole “not attracted to men” hurdle but ignoring the fact that the helpful gentleman providing the advice had specified that D-deprived lesbians should be having sex with men. I can only hope that Mr. Science will find an more receptive audience elsewhere. The health of women everywhere is at stake!
H/T — r/ActualLesbians via r/BadWomensAnatomy
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@sylvia bath:
Your Mom said that?! OMG ?
(Speaking as an actual semen-producing human, I can’t imagine how anyone would “crave” the stuff outside the minds of producers of porn: it has a gross texture and an even grosser smell. According to Wikipedia, the smell is partly due to the presence of a chemical called putrescine, a compound commonly found, as its name suggests, in rotting organic matter ?)
I’m reminded of this infamous PSA from the Yukon.
@Buttercup:
Perhaps your confusion will be cleared up by this quote from a totally real and not at all made up MRA/Incel going his own way:
I promise you that the quote is both as real and as scientifically true as the observations in the post that inspired David’s OP.
I’m forever amazed by how much the “science” of MRA/mgtow/incel posts sound like my junior high school peers from the mid-1960s
What if I told you guys that if it shouldn’t matter if men can’t get any, and even if they were attractive as people, people left them alone?
…they literally think penises are magic, don’t they?
Yes, and they ought to be denied sex for that. In fact, if people are gonna complain about sexual immorality, why don’t they stop men from doing it so much, because they seem to want it more in general?
Reading this I thought if the semen is the magical anti-ageing whatever then why not make a market selling it. Then I thought one (several?) of these creepy types have already thought of/tried to do that. Then I felt sad and wanted to go back to 30 seconds ago before either thought entered my head.
The problem I keep seeing are people who not only insist that “You must do XYZ because it is natural” but also assume that figuring out what is natural is always easy for them. Ultimately it results in them being against ideas that give them a bad feeling and in favor of ideas that give them a good feeling. Then ironically they misattribute their feelings to God or Science.
Well I dunno, my husband can’t get enough of mine.
At least when he’s turned on, if he happens to get off before I do then he’s kinda “meh” about it but if he’s still horny he wants it pretty much everywhere he can get it.
I’m a take it or leave it kinda (trans) gal, I don’t mind it, but I’m not desperate for it or anything. Of course with my husband being a trans man I don’t get it very much.
I’m sorry but I could never, ever have sex with a man who doesn’t use punctuation. I’m serious.
@Crip Dyke and Lunzie:
Ah! Now it makes sense. It’s just science that you get different experimental outcomes depending on which one best supports your hypothesis.
That…isn’t how arousal and lubrication work. It’s not a leather car seat that needs conditioner rubbed into it periodically.
I don’t know dude. My vagina has a problem where it’s to wet. My birth control makes my body produce way more discharge then it should. I have to change my underwear about 3 times a day because it will soak it. If your logic was any where close to right then I should just have sex with women.
@ Kat
Not sure if women should take health advice from someone who apparently does not know what a period is.
(Sorry for that. I will show myself out.)
WHAT A GENTLEMAN!!
to be concerned with lesbians well-being so much. Such a nice guy.
Its just science ladiiiieeezzzzzz
Where is his nobel penis prize?!
@Alexis Filth:
Because it’s yours. I dare say if I dropped by with a flask of mine and offered him a swig he’d be less keen.
See? Because it brings us closer our partners in the heat of the moment. But in the cold light of day, it’s a bit ew. That’s kind of my point. But the way MRAs and conservative types go on about it, it’s LIQUID GOLD!!1!
@TheKND – Ah, I see now. 😛
@sylvia bath – Ugh, that sounds really frustrating. 🙁 Reminds me of my mother. (I mean the homophobia part. She’d be embarrassed to talk to me about sex in that much detail and she hates Trump.) It’s all about “X is natural, Y is not,” like what QuantumInc said:
To be fair, I think my mom got some of that baggage from her own mother, who was strict about her children being “normal” (more about academics/mental capacity than sexual orientation, which wasn’t “out” as much in the 60s, so to speak).
Now I kind of wish my maternal grandmother were alive (I never met her). She’d see that her 3 grandchildren with…
-ADHD (me)
-dyscalculia (brother)
-a type of autism (cousin)
…are doing things with life and are not helpless rejects. (Oh yeah, and cousin and I are both bi, the brother possibly ace or at least aromantic.)
Anyway, this is off-topic because I’m tired, but I’m sending everyone with difficult relatives Invisible Internet Hugs or Waves of Encouragement, as preferred. <3
Well if it is I want to complain to the designer because it hasn’t helped with my eczema at all. I suppose it might be far worse if I removed it but it’s not an experiment I’m prepared to try on the word of some random idiot on the internet.
As I understand it, a satisfactory sex life reduces stress and is therefore good for your immune system and somewhat helps reduce aging. (Well, major stress ages you at least)
But it’s the enjoyment that’s important. You do you, in whatever shade or shades of the rainbow you enjoy.
Sylvia Bath –
“Semen has what women crave!
Semen has electrolytes!”
@Robert:
?
Now I’m reminded of that bizarre episode in Egyptian mythology where Horus spreads his semen (that his mom Isis helped him collect ?) on his uncle Set’s lettuce patch to pwn him in a contest over who gets to be Pharaoh…
Off topic, but in case you haven’t seen it, here is the letter that Barr has delivered to Congress regarding the Mueller report.
https://mobile.twitter.com/RepJerryNadler/status/1109903081691664385
@epitome of incomprehensibility: sex on the beach, obviously.
I was also imagining vitamin D, which is quite important in winter even if you have fair even clear skin — but especially with darker skin. I was disappointed it was David’s extrapolation, not the OP’s.
So don’t ever, ever, ever have sex with OP or anyone of his ilk. Got it.
Sorry for the double post, but my posts aren’t appearing right after I post them, but instead after I submit them AGAIN.
I’ll stop doing that then. : P