My unfortunate recipe for Getting Shit Done while full time working is this:
-Don’t sleep a lot, especially on work days
-Hate myself and berate myself at least a little bit everyday for not Getting More Shit Done
-Eschew property ownership, family-making, interpersonal relationships in favor of aforementioned Getting Shit Done
-Love the Shit I’m trying to Get Done Do all the above until I am sick or need to get drunk to shut my brain up. Repeat. Why yes, it is three am and I have to be at work at 8 and my Shit is Not Done and I’m commenting on yer blaagh instead of Doing My Shit. Fuck. I wonder what this is going to look like in another 5 or 10 years.
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rollertrain
[yeah, I’m quoting my own comment on Libby’s blog. whatevs]
Essentially, condoms are tested and FDA approved for vaginal use only. The FDA is typically provided with testing documentation from condom manufacturers based exclusively on vaginal use, and consequently there are no established guidance documents available from the FDA for condoms used for AI [anal intercourse]. For many years, in the US and elsewhere, it was considered taboo to discuss AI. In recent years, the subject was discussed at a special summit conference conducted by the FDA, specifically intended to encourage manufacturers to produce condoms for AI, however, none of the manufacturers who attended the meeting followed through. No existing condom manufacturer would risk producing such testing data as the failure rate for breakage, leakage and viral permeability would be significantly higher than testing results for vaginal use.
Then a tattooed woman, calling herself a “sexologist and sex educator,” spoke against the bill. She is also a reporter for a prostitutes’ magazine called $pread. (I couldn’t make this stuff up!)
I think I don’t regret a single ‘excess’ of my responsive youth - I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn’t embrace.
