wtf

Islander, when was this? I ask because my mother received the Widow's Benefit on the deaths of both her husbands, and I thought it had been continuously available since it was introduced – in 1911.

That has *always* been a factor Ben- when my parents married – because they had to (my mother's family saw to that – and yep, first time etc. etc.)-…

I still think of my first girlfriend as my first wife, we were together that long, and breaking up was…

Come on now, a perfectly polite first post which happens to disagree with one statement in the original blog post is a long way from trolling.

But my gut reaction, based on my…

Wellll, why on earth would you not expect someone like…

Absolutely. And of course any relationship you've seen in action is different from a…

I agree with your overall point, and fully endorse a liberal pro-information approach to sex ed in schools, and think that sex is a joyful and a wonderful part…

They may be libertarians, but Penn & Teller have done the homework so we don't have to. (NSFW Warning)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=td3onwd1kSE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PH49fKppfAA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxNWFfb42X8

Thanks for saying that, Craig. Glad I'm not the only one! I think growing up is a lifelong process...I thought I was grown up 20 years ago! Gah.

Part of the package tour we call life is the inevitability of doing dumb shit that makes you writhe…

So much of this, and being a gay man of a certain age I think New Zealand's comparatively sane response to HIV-AIDS…

Undertaking a Sunday tour of my new Dept., the day before the first day of my PhD program, a stressed-looking prof emerged from her office. After I briefly introduced myself, I received the following 'advice':

"Do you have any children? No? Good! Don't have any until…

At least, the population of Russia, that's huge.

[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinsey_Scale|"In both the Male and Female volumes of the Kinsey Reports, an additional grade, listed as "X", was used for asexuality. It was first published in Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948) by Alfred Kinsey, Wardell…

The more knowledge ‘out there’ = the better.

One day, one day she sighs, asexuals will be recognised as natural, and accepted as a human sexual variant…

Deliverer of, and this is a high bar, the least subtle pick-up line I've ever been on the receiving end of.

Thanks, Tracy. It was a hell of a piece to write, and to open up to view, and while the feedback was nothing but positive, it was…

I actually did some research on the history of baseball during my aborted US PhD in history. It's a great window into early twentieth century urbanisation and the development of mass leisure (see also: amusement parks; movies; to a lesser extent department stores).

(Anecdotally, undergraduate degrees (at…

Was watching Roots: The Next Generation last week, and the scenes set in the college/university where the women are wearing uniforms seemed really weird. It was a methodist(?) institution (as…

As much as any other sexual practice? So, quite a bit?

I've talked a bit here about why it's so important for health professionals to have some basic understanding of BDSM. And most of you will have seen this, yet I'm still…

We once took a highly respected and very smart visiting professor out for beers at the local bowling alley. Turned out she was a very good bowler since she had…

Isn't that because they spend their 16-18 period getting ready for the prom, and then their first degree learning a diverse mixture of translated Proust, quantum physics for non-mathematicians and history of…

That very much depends on the lab you come from. From the American perspective your age is not that relevant, it is your pedigree. You come from such and such university, from…

Indeed.

Groovy. I've cancelled my ire hoisting subscription. In all fairness she's no one trick pony. While she'd medicate and incarcerate Kinsey for his BDSM, the Doctor exhibits a profound and nuanced complexity:

"What does BDSM have to do with health?"

Dr Miriam Grossman MD

I might usurp that as my Twitter bio.

She'll be thinking of the American context, where you do a 4-year undergrad, a 2-year MSc is not uncommon, and then a…

Um – usually closer to 25 actually. Most of our PhD students track school/honours or masters/PhD/first real job – that should see you finshed around 25-27 NOT 35

Sorry, didn't think of that. That's...sickening, actually.

Actually, Mike Moreu managed to pull it off without Godwinning.

Is that a sex tip? If so, I've got a lot to learn.

:)

Great analogy, Emma.

Indeed.

You know that she just actually has no idea what she's talking about, right?

She's a psychiatrist. So when she talks about locking someone up in a psychiatric institution? It's not quite so funny. And BDSM is still in the DSM.

So that's why labs are equipped with fumehoods

Oh, I'm sure Emma knows that.

Well, let's be honest, even if a perfect solution to the child-having question emerged tomorrow women would still be…

To have some dipshit MD piss all over the idea that women should value their intellectual contribution to society…

And, you know, it's not as if women in science don't spend A FUCKING…

The health benefits of church attendance are never discussed.

I thought that was a bit odd, but heck:

[[http://beyondopinion.com/tag/dr-miriam-grossman/|“If Kinsey was alive today, and under my care, he’d be on high doses of medications. I would hospitalize him on a locked psychiatric unit because of the risk to his health…

She did an okay job, in her Close Up and RNZ interviews, of pretending to be just reasonable and concerned, but it took almost no digging…

grrrr Thank you for pointing out that the degree which is actually a frigging nightmare to complete is less important than the biological act that pretty much everyone can do (admittedly to varying levels of competence).

Note also…

Presumably you'd have to lock someone(s) else in the room with them.

I see what you did there :).

Plus, not everyone wants to (or could) ride the Tour…

As their loving mother you are their primary source of the values they will grow up with and you are lightyears ahead of Dr Miriam (whoever the fuck she is!) in that regard.

As far as I am concerned 'Family First' should be…

I know that mixing toilet cleaner and bleach is a really bad idea, because I went to science class in high school.…