Recent content by agrajagthetesty

I eat meat, but I've never heard an argument for meat-eating which I found convincing. I should really just put my money where my mouth is and try going veggie. :/

Yes, I am. Sure, the term comes with baggage, but I tend to find that people who hear "feminist" as "insane, frothing, man-hating maniac" aren't people I'd enjoy spending time with anyway. And sure, there's a "fem" in it, but that's because of the historical context of gender issues. I...

(I'm going to use a lot of electrons here, my apologies! My style is to respond to specific points individually, and I find this layout easier to work with.) This may be cultural, I'm not sure. But I've already offered you reasons why I think not pressing charges doesn't automatically mean...

Ok, I'm still highly suspicious about the 20%-false-charges figure (because of the bias I've mentioned and the fact that the number is 4 times higher than the average figure found elsewhere by thoroughly investigated sources) but I'm happy to move on from the point since neither of us are in a...

Ok, well unfortunately I can't read Dutch, so I won't be able to go over the sources directly. Thank you for providing more details about them, though - I'll make a few points in response to what you've said. First, like I said, investigations from outside the police have demonstrated...

Holy shit, please provide a source for that at once. The literature I've read says that false reports are more in the range of 2-8% (and, indeed, that police bias can be a significant factor in inflating the numbers): http://www.ndaa.org/pdf/the_voice_vol_3_no_1_2009.pdf

Yes, I do understand that. It's just that the amount of bullshit I see being said about rape is ridiculous, and today I happened to feel like pushing back. I realise that I made the conversation a lot more serious than either of you probably meant it to be - but your "embellishments", in a...

Always good to see people with no understanding whatsoever of the reality of rape. In the US, the arrest rate for rape is 25% (compared to 79% for murder, and 51% for aggravated assault). http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-500690_162-5590118.html In the UK, 1% of all rape victims see their...

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The manga is way better than both. The original anime was good, but I found the art style too colourful and shiny, and wasn't fond of Dante as a villain (uninteresting, unconvincing, not especially tied in to anything that had happened earlier in the series). I liked Brotherhood for its being...

You know, the funny thing is that I really wasn't going very fast, nor was I gripping like crazy. I'm inexperienced, I was cautious in general about what I was doing. He didn't even notice the burn at the time - it was somewhat later that it, um, became apparent. I think a lot of it may actually...

Pffft, and you knew exactly what I was thinking of without ever needing me to own up to it. An accusation of a castration-attempt would probably have made the experience worse, but the burn itself was more than sufficiently traumatising. (! is roughly my reaction as well.) Cheers for abating the...

I'm female, so have stayed out of this discussion due to a lack of personal experience in the matter, but I'm interested in this given my experiences with my circumcised partner. Do you never require lube, or is it simply possible to make do without? Does lube significantly improve the...

Began my first relationship, had sex for the first time. Something of a connection between those two things, obviously, but all the same!

Hmm. Perhaps, if I come out, I ought to make it clear how long I've known about my sexuality (since years before I met him). I'd hope he wouldn't take it that way, but thanks for the explanation. If I do decide to tell him, I'll be careful about that. I suppose I need to weigh my drive to be...