Argh

[bobquasit]

First, the internet connection here at work this morning is going up and down faster than George W. Bush's head at an oilmen's convention. But it's mostly down. Sorry I couldn't think of a funnier metaphor.

Second, here's something painful:

http://advicenators.com/qview.php?q=424406

I dispelled an urban myth, only to have the next person who answered confirm it. She's totally wrong, of course.

Comments

[moonlitmagik.livejournal.com]

dispelled... hmmmm (brain fart) what does that mean?

[bobquasit.livejournal.com]

Showed that it was, in fact, not true.

[moonlitmagik.livejournal.com]

k.. thanks.... lol

[lubedpumpkin.livejournal.com]

"But perhaps you're asking if douching with Mountain Dew would reduce the odds of pregnancy? That would be a really bad idea for many reasons. It would be MUCH smarter to use real birth control."

You are the SnarkMeister, good sir.

And OK, I have to ask.. what's considered "underage" for sex? Being a minor? I know a lot of people who "waited" until they were in college, etc, and still have fucked up sex and relationship stuff..

Maybe I'm the exception to the rule - I lost my virginity at a young age, and it really empowered me.

[bobquasit.livejournal.com]

OK, I have to ask.. what's considered "underage" for sex? Being a minor?

Well, there's the legal definition, but in many ways that doesn't make a lot of sense to me - it varies from state to state, for one thing, and as far as I can tell is pretty much ignored everywhere, except by prosecutors.

I think my rather inchoate idea was that it was a matter of simply being mature enough to handle sex - because a huge number of kids seemed to be getting into it at far too young an age, and my impression was that their lives were being pretty badly screwed up. I'm sure that 99.9999% of twelve and thirteen-year-olds simply aren't ready to deal with the issue, and that percentage might easily be 100%.

But of course I'm hardly the world's greatest expert on the subject, since I lost mine at 33. :D

If I'd had the choice, my gut feeling is that it would have been better for me if I'd started in my early 20s. Say, sex at 21, marriage in the mid-to-late 20s, and a first child at around 30 or a little before. But this is sheer fantasy. I'm quite aware that I'm talking out of my hat.

I always use the Llap-Goch icon when I'm talking out of my hat. :D