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    Image of kit10indublin kit10indublin
    05/11/09

    In reply to Blah Blah Smart Women Better At Sex • Man Finds Parasitic Twin In Bellybutton
    On a very GENERAL note for the Jezebel site overall - is it possible to have links go to a separate tab and/or window than linking directly to the site, please?
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    Image of chritter is a nocturnal feminist mancatfish chritter is a nocturnal feminist mancatfish
    05/11/09

    @kit10indublin: Most browsers have a fairly simple way to open links in a new window, depending on your OS. On a Mac, for example, just hold down the control key when clicking. PCs, I think it's mostly just right-click.
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    Image of lisas lisas
    05/11/09

    @weetziebat: I don't think it's cute.
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    Image of Pizza!Pizza!Pizza! Pizza!Pizza!Pizza!
    05/11/09

    In reply to Blah Blah Smart Women Better At Sex • Man Finds Parasitic Twin In Bellybutton
    Re: Birth control pills. While I'm elated that researchers realize hormonal birth control has been incredibly under-studied, it still seems that 'sexual dysfunction' (i.e. lost sex drive) is an afterthought - kind of like hair loss being a side effect of anti-hair loss treatments - and no mention of general depression which seems to be almost universal depending on the pill, at least among my friends.
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    Image of undomesticgoddess doesn't sleep a wink undomesticgoddess doesn't sleep a wink
    05/11/09

    @HeatherNumber1: I have experienced both loss of sex-drive and depression (once so awful that I thought there was a good chance I was bipolar). Once I switched to a different pill, I was back to normal.

    I don't think that it is an afterthought- but it's not a "normal" side-effect (meaning that, if you are taking the right pill, it should not happen).
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    Image of Pizza!Pizza!Pizza! Pizza!Pizza!Pizza!
    05/11/09

    @undomesticgoddess responds well to temptation: Most (if not all) BC pills list depression as a possible side-effect in their literature... but classify it as secondary/mild/acceptable, alongside acne and blood spotting (versus things like tingling limbs or anything else that should prompt you to see a doctor or go to the emergency room).
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    Image of undomesticgoddess doesn't sleep a wink undomesticgoddess doesn't sleep a wink
    05/11/09

    @HeatherNumber1: I have been told that if I were to experience any secondary symptoms, then a switch should be made.
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    Image of Pizza!Pizza!Pizza! Pizza!Pizza!Pizza!
    05/11/09

    In reply to Blah Blah Smart Women Better At Sex • Man Finds Parasitic Twin In Bellybutton
    I'm not that surprised by the emotional intelligence/good sex correlation, assuming that intelligence coincides with high self esteem. How many women who feel like shit about themselves wouldn't dare 'correct' a guy in bed or let him see their 'sex face'? (Thanks, Cosmo!)
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    Image of dcdulce dcdulce
    05/11/09

    In reply to Blah Blah Smart Women Better At Sex • Man Finds Parasitic Twin In Bellybutton
    Shirley Jones Gets Happy!
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    05/11/09

    In reply to Blah Blah Smart Women Better At Sex • Man Finds Parasitic Twin In Bellybutton
    Parasitic twin...I see another Discovery Health Porn show!
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    Image of ♥AntiSocialSocialite♥ ♥AntiSocialSocialite♥
    05/11/09

    In reply to Blah Blah Smart Women Better At Sex • Man Finds Parasitic Twin In Bellybutton
    Inviting her to the White House for a game of one-on-one???? Because he "likes tall women???"


    Not sounding skeevy. Ur doin it rong!

    :\


    I love Prez Obama, but he HAD to know that would be a quote heard 'round the world.

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    Image of lisas lisas
    05/11/09

    @♥Anti-Social Socialite♥: That was a whaaa for me too. Bet it won't be heard no where no how though.
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    Image of Mafalda para Presidente Mafalda para Presidente
    05/11/09

    In reply to Blah Blah Smart Women Better At Sex • Man Finds Parasitic Twin In Bellybutton
    My emotional intelligence is high, but sadly, my social intelligence is not. I'm an introverted feeling genius, and I suspect it's because I spend so much more time observing than I do talking/interacting.
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    05/11/09

    In reply to Blah Blah Smart Women Better At Sex • Man Finds Parasitic Twin In Bellybutton
    Exactly how do they measure "better sex?" Do realistic vs. unrealistic expectations factor into this? Maybe women that are better at identifying emotions are also better at discerning "levels" of performance.
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    Image of Beat Girl Beat Girl
    05/11/09

    @Encouraging Referee Pitman: Surely 'better sex' is a self-defined level of satisfaction. "Better satisfied with their sex lives" would make sense, right? It just seems self-evident that this can only be the conclusion from this 'study' because better sex is communicative sex.
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    Image of emdy emdy
    05/11/09

    In reply to Blah Blah Smart Women Better At Sex • Man Finds Parasitic Twin In Bellybutton
    From the first article: Other research has concluded that foreplay adds little to a woman's overall enjoyment of sex.

    --

    This is not an excuse for no foreplay.
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    Image of Beat Girl Beat Girl
    05/11/09

    @emdy: I call bullshit on that statement. What if I don't really like penetration at all?
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    Image of vamusical vamusical
    05/11/09

    @emdy: ugh. That study was probably paid for my Ungentlemanly Pigs of the World, Inc.
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    Image of sequined sequined
    05/11/09

    @emdy: But it adds a lot to a woman's enjoyment of foreplay.
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    Image of sportz.star sportz.star
    05/11/09

    In reply to Blah Blah Smart Women Better At Sex • Man Finds Parasitic Twin In Bellybutton
    I'm hoping that puppy and person were each mummified after their natural deaths and neither death was hastened for the ease of being buried together.


    Side note, I'd totally want my puppy with me. Sadly, even if he lives a long life, I will out live him (assuming natural lives for us both).

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    Image of Gretchen is a new kitten mom! Gretchen is a new kitten mom!
    05/11/09

    @sportz.star: All of our pets are cremated when they go. We're taking them with us when the time comes. My brother in law is a funeral director, so he's promised to see that we're all together.
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    Image of saintbernadette saintbernadette
    05/11/09

    In reply to Blah Blah Smart Women Better At Sex • Man Finds Parasitic Twin In Bellybutton
    For no particular reason, I am obsessed with parasitic twin stories.
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    Image of heykoukla heykoukla
    05/11/09

    @saintbernadette: I wanna know why they call the "dead" twin the parasitic one. Surely it's the live ones who should be called parasites - they're the ones who took all the nutrients and got rid of the competition.
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    Image of Benevolent_Dictatrix (patently absurd) Benevolent_Dictatrix (patently absurd)
    05/11/09

    @saintbernadette: I had a cyst removed from my shoulder and told everyone it was a parasitic twin. Seemed like a better story.
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    Image of YourScreenplaySucks YourScreenplaySucks
    05/11/09

    @heykoukla: Terminology, like history, is written by the winners.
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    Image of ritualtheory ritualtheory
    05/11/09

    @saintbernadette: Well, my mom had one. It was attached to her left ovary, which then had to be removed along with the twin. She was 20 at the time and only found out because an infection developed.
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    Image of vamusical vamusical
    05/11/09

    In reply to Blah Blah Smart Women Better At Sex • Man Finds Parasitic Twin In Bellybutton
    Emotional Intelligence? Like... you are better at identifying your emotions?
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    Image of Beat Girl Beat Girl
    05/11/09

    @vamusical: Pretty much. Emotional awareness and intelligence would be a better descriptor.
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    05/11/09

    @Beat Girl: Yes, yes it would. I had never heard emotional intelligence before.
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    Image of Beat Girl Beat Girl
    05/11/09

    @vamusical: I have, though I don't know why or where. It seems to be one of those phrases used to differentiate academic aptitude from other measures of intelligence. Which is fair enough, really. My ability to pass exams hasn't set me in marvellous stead for the real world.
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    Image of zu_zu zu_zu
    05/11/09

    @Beat Girl: When I worked in a book store I was constantly coming across that phrase in the self help section. Basically it seems to relate to empathy or intuition, being better at reading people.

    I never really equated it with being something akin to academic intelligence, though I know what you mean, there's been a lot of study in regards to the social biases of traditional IQ tests - the right brain/left brain ways of learning and expressing intelligence. I think the "emotional intelligence" really refers more to being people savvy.
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    Image of rocknrollunicorn rocknrollunicorn
    05/11/09

    @zu_zu: I think (in this case at least) it also probably indicates you are in touch with your own emotions in a healthy way. I've always considered that to be part of "emotional intelligence."


    Which is why I have a bone to pick with this headline. I am very book-smart but I am something of a failure at emotional intelligence. So I got all excited and then realized I probably suck in bed. Pun intended.

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    Image of Snowbunny Snowbunny
    05/11/09

    In reply to Blah Blah Smart Women Better At Sex • Man Finds Parasitic Twin In Bellybutton
    I found a, like, tooth in my upper arm (seriously, I thought it was a zit so I picked at it until a tiny little hard tooth came out) and I'm having serious guilt about probably eating my twin in the womb until all that was left of them was the tooth they broke off in my arm. Maybe I should make a support group for people like me and this British guy.
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    Image of saintbernadette saintbernadette
    05/11/09

    @Snowbunny: Are you fucking kidding me? I must know more!
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    Image of casi nadie (loves MCC forever) casi nadie (loves MCC forever)
    05/11/09

    @Snowbunny: Woah. Did you check to see if there are more teeth somewhere?
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    Image of saintbernadette saintbernadette
    05/11/09

    @Snowbunny: Was it a molar or a canine?
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    Image of AndNowForSomethingDifferent AndNowForSomethingDifferent
    05/11/09

    @Snowbunny:


    Jesus Christ, if I found a tooth in my arm, every person from here to Timbuktu would know!


    Please elaborate.

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    Image of Majrhoulihan Majrhoulihan
    05/11/09

    @Snowbunny: That is weird.
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    Image of vamusical vamusical
    05/11/09

    @Snowbunny: If I found a tooth in my pimple I would LOSE MY SHIT. Maybe it was a talking pimple like Chris's from Family Guy?
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    Image of TurtleWexlerKickedMe TurtleWexlerKickedMe
    05/11/09

    @Snowbunny: I seriously can't even handle this!!
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    Image of xilo xilo
    05/11/09

    @Snowbunny: I used to have recurrent nightmares about finding molars in my palms.
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    Image of Snowbunny Snowbunny
    05/11/09

    @AndNowForSomethingDifferent: Well, I called my normal confidants on the phone. My brother told me I was gross and he hated me for murdering him sibling, my best friend told me to sell it on ebay, and my cousin told me it was a tumor and I'd probably die.


    This happened like a week ago, so I'm kinda over it now. The giant gaping hole it left is almost all healed already.

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    05/11/09

    @xilo: If you start having them again I'm sorry.
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    Image of saintbernadette saintbernadette
    05/11/09

    @Snowbunny: Is it wrong that I'm kind of jealous?
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    Image of LaMorena LaMorena
    05/11/09

    @Snowbunny: WOAH, WOAH, WOAH. I agree--please back up and start over. How and when did this happen? Have you gone to your doctor? PLEASE TO EXPLAIN.
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    Image of nagumi nagumi
    05/11/09

    @Snowbunny: Actually, there is a kind of tumor that does this. I don't know much about it, but I read an article about it once. Talk to your doctor - there may be itty bitty bits of tumor elsewhere that could grow a whole mouth ;)


    Wasn't there a movie about a girl with teeth in her hoo-hah who'd bite men's whatsits off?


    Seriously though, talk to a doctor.

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    Image of saintbernadette saintbernadette
    05/11/09

    @nagumi: Yes! You're thinking of "Teeth". I must step away from this thread now. :)
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    Image of vamusical vamusical
    05/11/09

    @saintbernadette: I just popped a pimple on my shoulder and was genuinely disappointed when no teeth or tiny body parts came out.
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    Image of Snowbunny Snowbunny
    05/11/09

    @saintbernadette: I would say no but it kinda is.


    It really hurt, if that makes you less so.

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    Image of Pizza!Pizza!Pizza! Pizza!Pizza!Pizza!
    05/11/09

    @Snowbunny: Aghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Also, yum.
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    Image of chritter is a nocturnal feminist mancatfish chritter is a nocturnal feminist mancatfish
    05/11/09

    @nagumi: Teratoma. I had to hear all about these when the Mrs. was in med school. Ick.
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    Image of undomesticgoddess doesn't sleep a wink undomesticgoddess doesn't sleep a wink
    05/11/09

    @chritter: Oh, wow. Why did I read that? It was just sitting there, in that link, saying click me. So I did.

    And now I'll be giving the side-eye to spots of all kinds.
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    Image of chritter is a nocturnal feminist mancatfish chritter is a nocturnal feminist mancatfish
    05/11/09

    @undomesticgoddess responds well to temptation: Sorry. I guess I've become inured to creepy medical factoids.
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    Image of parafilm parafilm
    05/11/09

    @nagumi:


    You're right, that happens.


    Cells receive external messages that tell them what kind of tissue to grow into. Sometimes a group of cells gets the wrong message and becomes the wrong type of tissue.


    I'll do some research because I don't remember the details... but I remember learning about that in a cell bio course...

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    Image of rocknrollunicorn rocknrollunicorn
    05/11/09

    @parafilm: I discovered this in, of all things, a Margaret Atwood short story. It's amazing and I want a (benign) tumor to remove and keep in a jar and obsess over (what the protagonist does in the story).
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    05/11/09

    @nagumi: The tumor you're thinking of is, as far as I understand it, a kind that grows on the uterus and can also have hair. Very weird. But I don't think they come on arms.


    Alternate theory: what if she was bit as a child by a particularly vicious other young child and the tooth has just been in there for years?

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    Image of BabyJane BabyJane
    05/11/09

    @Snowbunny: I'm all for dental hygiene, but I draw the line at flossing my arm.
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    05/12/09

    @Snowbunny: This is so awesomely weird I don't know what to say. I like the pirate idea.


    Also, I know a girl with two vaginas. She ate her twin in utero.

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    Image of BrutallyHonestBabes (aka Mrs. Sarah.of.a.Lesser.Hobbit) BrutallyHonestBabes (aka Mrs. Sarah.of.a.Lesser.Hobbit)
    05/11/09

    In reply to Blah Blah Smart Women Better At Sex • Man Finds Parasitic Twin In Bellybutton
    Oh, fine Mr. President. You know, shorties' votes count just as much. GrumbleFrownGrumble.
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    Image of hovy hovy
    05/11/09

    In reply to Blah Blah Smart Women Better At Sex • Man Finds Parasitic Twin In Bellybutton
    Oh, Shirley. Surely you must be joking, right?
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    Image of heykoukla heykoukla
    05/11/09

    @hovy: She's not joking. And don't call her Shirley. Oh, wait...
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