gross things that happen to your body

The Second Period No One Tells You About

This is a post about hemorrhoids. Does that gross you out? Because guess what, someday you might have a human being burst through your pussy and you will probably crap all over it in the process, so grow up. Our bodies are gross. This column is about that. But it is also a touching tale of a doctor named Wang, and how he liberated the bowels of the woman he loves. And no it was not written by me, it was written by someone we'll call Poshterior Spice, and you can thank Intern Cheryl for the high art.

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In Which We Convince Our Friend To Try Alli

The pharmaceutical industry is sort of like women's magazines: staffed by blandly attractive people, determined to make you feel bad about yourself, and brimming with new ways to stop you from being fat! Unlike women's magazines, however, Big Pharma has come up with a few weight loss ideas that actually work, which is why have learned to sit back in consent as it decimates the American health care system. With that in mind, welcome to our first installment of 'Pillhead', in which a real connoisseur reports on this exciting field and tries not to crap her pants in the process.

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Laundry Baskets: Good Things To Have, But Not As Sex Props

There's this new book out about Porn for Women that depicts guys (like the one at right) doing all sorts of sexy things like vacuuming and offering to take care of the kids, a premise that implies, suffice it to say, about half a gazillion assumptions guaranteed to irritate pretty much every male or female we know who has ever listened to NPR and irritate them in a unique and special way. Whatever. The important question is, does porn get women off? We thought we would take some batteries and some naked pictures of an ironing-and-clothing folding blogger called "Figleaf" into our bedrooms and, since we were already there anyway, see how long it took to get off. More »