My own lol.

Any of them

Well, of course there’s a benefit.

To anyone selling the ivermectin or whatever to people that don’t need it.

Seriously. That’s it. There’s zero benefit to taking medications like that if you don’t have symptoms.

Shit, I’m hostile now.

Legit, I’m usually nice to people, even though I hate people at large. But I don’t trust any motherfucker at my back until they’ve proven they can be trusted.

That’s how I would handle things in a crisis like that. Short term, low trust, mutually understood cooperation, but with safety valves.

No more or less flawless than windows, Android, or the iOS stuff.

It’s different flaws.

“There, wolf”

Well, you’d think I had, the way they hang nowadays, but it’s gravity and decades that did the work ;)

Also, you gotta be really careful with the real thing. The skin there is tougher than most people think, but not as tough as you might hope once you’re pulling on it with any significant force. You can get these micro-tears and even smooth materials can abrade. You aren’t going to cause serious injury unless you do really dumb stuff, but you can make yourself miserable for a week or two while it heals up.

Eh, short term it’s no big deal. Teeth are durable as hell and won’t get fucked up by anything that minor if it’s a rare thing. But, the more you do it, the more damage accumulates over time. A few times a year over decades? Never gonna notice it.

A few times a month, and it’ll be a decade or two before it would be a problem.

A few times a week, and you’d better have dental coverage and/or good income, because you’re looking at a few years before it starts showing up as carries. Less if circumstances are bad, or you didn’t start out with very good teeth.

There’s also the fact that keeping in the habit of brushing after eating stays a habit better if you don’t deviate from it without an important reason. In my mind, if you’re awake enough to eat, you’re awake enough to brush afterward. If you aren’t awake enough to brush, then you probably shouldn’t be eating either. Fucks with digestion and metabolism. It’s better to just stay on track and skip the snack, if you dig me.

But nah, if it’s a rare thing, you’ll take more damage from a soda than a single night skipping brushing after a midnight nosh. It’s all about the acids.

Now, if you can’t be bothered to at least swish out with some water, I’d say you’ve got worse things to worry about because you can do that on your way back to bed, swallow it and take zero extra effort beyond the mouthful of water. If your energy is that low, or there’s some other impediment involved, focus on that.

How immersed?

Tye sphincter can and will resist pressure, but only so much. You won’t run into that kind of pressure freediving, or even anywhere you could use a wet suit afaik, but you get deep enough and it would become an issue.

Or, if you’re immersed somewhere with water moving heavily, you could get breaches in your breeches I suppose.

Ummmmmm…

Yeah, I’d be looking for someone else too. I don’t believe in being a slave to a clock, but he’s just not matching your needs and expectations even when he’s there, so it just isn’t a good pairing. A trainer and client have to be on the same page for them to be able to really guide you.

Sorry you’re working so hard and not being supported right. There’s plenty of room for a relaxed trainer, but that’s not what you need to meet your goals. Sucky position to be in. If it wasn’t prepaid, I’d say just walk entirely since it’s a recurring issue.

Good thing is that trainers tend to have a fairly high turnover rate, so he may end up not being there long.

IDGAF about five minutes in most circumstances. There’s just too much shit that matters way more.

If it was something that was a dealbreaker metrics because it fucked other things up for me, I’d want to know what the deal was, communicate that my needs weren’t being met, and decide to stay a member/customer based on that, but it’s not something that would bother me.

I refuse to be a fucking slave to the clock on my phone, and wouldn’t insist anyone else be either. Back before network clocks, we all did fine without and nobody died.

I mean, no update?

Amen to that. Keeping a sense of open communication is vital while kids are going to be experimenting and exploring. Not just their bodies amd sexuality, but definitely for those.

Nah, you misunderstood, you’re thinking of demosexual

Demisexual is when you’re only half attracted to each gender.

!is not, I’m not making fun of demisexuality, just playing word games!<

It’s a little weird for sure. But the whole “do not shove things into you that aren’t fingers or designed for it” conversation is a lot less disturbing than the potential disturbance of that hospital visit. For that matter, it applies to the “don’t shove yourself or rub yourself against anything not designed for it or on/in a consenting and legal human” as well.

I’ve known a few people that suffered injury from humping stuff that wasn’t wise.

Ignoring context, it would be unusual, but not inherently worrying. There’s plenty of mothers that help guide their daughters to an age appropriate sex toy, and some that will do the same for their sons. Rarer, there are fathers that will do so, but men have to worry more about external opinions about such. A mothers buys a dildo for their kid, the default assumption is that it’s weird, but not bad. A father does it, and the default assumption is that he’s over the line.

That being said parents should be the default source is advice about such things, because a bunch of young idiots (as opposed to old idiots) trying to advise each other about things they don’t have much experience with is a recipe for hospital visits.

In terms of general purpose guidance, and funding/ordering sex toys, there’s nothing wrong with a parent helping their kids in that way, assuming care is taken. There’s even an argument to be made that verbal instructions on safe use are even to be encouraged, and helpful hints aren’t exactly out of line (for real, a lot of young people masturbate in unhealthy ways that just a few sentences could prevent much trouble down the line).

In context, with the info you provided in comments, the mother in question is not being a good parent in this case, so it fits the word abnormal in the sense that it is unhealthy.

That’s an absurdly photogenic cat

Sync on my main tablet, because it has the best 2 column layout for my needs.

Connect on my phone where 2 column isn’t really a big factor, with summit as an alternative on there because I never have decided which of the two I prefer.

I don’t use lemmy on laptop/desktop because I dislike the experience via browser. It would be fine for passive scrolling I guess, but even with the various front end options, I run into more hassles than it’s worth when even the meh apps handle lemmy better and I just don’t need anything that could be gained via browser.

The same as it was when they were actually used. As long as a person’s body can move, there’s ways to gain genital stimulation.

Not that we’re limited to genitals as far as that goes. The anus and nipples are capable of intense pleasure as well. Both men and women can orgasm from various levels of stimulation to the anus, though not as reliably so without internal stimulation.

There’s both men and women that can achieve orgasm from nipple stimulation. Which is both really cool, and really annoying to those that can.

It’s also important to note that men can orgasm without ejaculation, which is often the case with those that can orgasm from external anal stimulation.

Seriously, if a given person can achieve orgasm, there are a dozen or so ways to get there without hands on stimulation, and even more with the hands available. I used to know a guy that would have non ejaculatory orgasm when he would use a bidet long enough. I had patients have orgasms, ejaculatory or otherwise, just from being bathed even though the contact was pretty minimal time wise.

Humans are built in a way that allows for some pretty interesting routes to pleasure.

I think you underestimate exactly how instinctive most of human sexuality is. We hump things in our sleep. We’ll hump ugly humans, ugly animals, and a bump on a log when puberty hits. Don’t need external experiences to exhibit basic sexual behaviors. When our brains and bodies decide it’s time to kick off being a sexual entity, blood flows to genitals.

When that blood flows, the skin becomes hyper sensitive. Tbh though, it’s sensitive enough to begin with that even infants and toddlers engage in self stimulation, though it’s dubious whether that’s sexual or sensual.

But once puberty hits, and your genitals get engorged, in yr absence of a reason not to, you’d rub them against something eventually. Since the arousal cycle kicks off easily, it won’t take a given individual long to figure out that the longer they do it, the more intense it gets.

Yeah, some folks won’t keep going because it’s too intense. And there’s some that are anorgasmic for physical reasons.

But, barring actively stopping the person from doing that most primitive humping activity, you aren’t going to prevent them from figuring out how to feel good.

It isn’t talked about much, but even people born deaf and blind figure that out without any external help.

For real, even actively trying to stop young adults from finding pleasure doesn’t work for long.