Just wondering: does getting a handjob count as masturbation!?



The word masturbate derives (I submit) from manu, Latin for by hand, and stuprare, Latin for to defile, or to commit a [nonspecific but evidently bad] sexual crime. Accordingly, by my etymological reckoning, whether you or another ...

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there is no country called Holland. Holland is a providence of the Netherlands. It is like making Texas and The US synonymous. I have a degree in Geography. The countries should be called by their correct names. ...



Nevertheless, Holland, though a province of the Netherlands, has (by ...

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. No war has ever been waged in the name of Buddha, as far as I know.



Perhaps not; but there were expansionist Buddhist empires in (for example) India, Sri Lanka, Cambodia and Indonesia. The Tibetan Buddhist hierarchy have for the most part managed to suppress many of the nasty details of ...

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italmusclebtm (imported) wrote: Sat May 31, 2008 10:16 am to me "asexual" or "neutral" imply "sexless".

Epicene is an adjective which refers to a person or thing which has characteristics of both sexes, or no characteristics of either sex, or is of indeterminate sex.

It may astound some, but I can actually move around ordinary people without their believing that I have any rigid foreign material up my arse. I do like polysyllables, I admit, but when I do employ sesquipedalian terminology, I always pay the words extra. “Ah, you should see ’em come round me of a ...

One of the reasons I came upon this site, was that I was quite aroused by accounts of castration in such works Carman 63 (the story of Attis) by Catullus and The Persian Letters of Montesquieu. When I was studying Latin at university and I had to translate Carmen 63, I had to slip away and slip one ...

Sure, you can get upset about a sign reading "everyday" rather than the techincally correct "every day." But how much does that really matter to most people?



It’s not a matter of being technically correct: one version, “now open every day” would communicate clearly and succinctly that the ...

I just do not get it!

If you (or anyone else here) ever wish to learn grammar, one easy way is to write to me. I can correct poor English and explain what is wrong or ill-written as I go.

The word glamour, by the way, derives from grammar. Grammar has the enchantment of spells, and (like coitus ...

The way round it is to get the story down, leave it for a couple of weeks or so, and then proof read it. ...



Horace, in his Art of Poetry [lines 388-89] recommended leaving the work aside for nine years. Few of us, alas, enjoy the support of a patron as wealthy as Maecenas.

None of us is ...

It’s worth noting, I think, that the above poem of resilience, Invictus, was written in his hospital bed by Henley after his diseased foot was amputated.