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When the Australian Bureau of Meteorology was enlisted to introduce the metric system for weather reporting and forecasts, its public relations officer, Godfrey Wiseman, coined a series of jingles to educate the public, using the terms frosty fives, tingling tens, temperate twenties, thirsty thirties and fiery forties to describe human sensation to temperatures in degrees Celsius.

My Fahrenheit friends may appreciate this...

Custom tools of a mouth painter

At a basic level, roleplay and feeling powerful and/or desired is fun; psychoanalyzing myself, as an adult, I admit that growing up alienated by the absence of sexual and romantic attraction has made me intellectually ravenous to understand sex of all kinds.

...I didn't write the title, but it does serve as a good content warning, I suppose. I'm more interested in how the author relates to sex & kink as an asexual person more generally... but wow, I learned some new words in the process, too.

Arousal is a funny thing. It’s an involuntary response, one we have little to no control over, that also carries enormous social and psychological weight. Since the era of Freud, we’ve been told that the things that turn us on have deep significance when it comes to unraveling who, exactly, we are – which makes it that much more troubling when the things that turn us on run completely counter to who we want to be when we’re fully clothed and away from the bedroom.

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The more we try to deny our erotic urges, the more they take over our experience – while paradoxically, accepting those parts of ourselves as harmless, if occasionally upsetting, fantasy, allows them to fade into our unconscious and helps integrate them into our daily lives.

Recommended by a friend (the muscle group to focus on, not the site or diagnosis it's aimed at)

I’m motivated by the idea that the world of screen is illusory. It doesn’t really quench my thirst for connection. It seems to, in the moment, but in the long run just stokes the flames. That’s not a slag on the friends I’ve made online. I’m still gonna keep on talking to you.♥︎

Probably not any less, either. Talking to friends isn’t exactly what I’d call “wasting time online".

It’s just that it’s going to be when we both really want to as opposed to compulsively or unhealthily.

It has been shown above that the intense and ongoing reaction to functionally 0% of athletes in women’s sports being transgender has led to multiple court cases and much furious emotion over protecting the sanctity of the game.

It has also been shown that open admission of one-sided and unfair divine aid by victorious athletes at the highest levels of men’s sports has gone unstudied and unpunished.

How can any athlete – no matter their level of talent, training, and experience – hope to compete with a rival who is being openly helped by an omniscient and omnipotent divinity?

There's a tiny section where LLMs are paraphrased (but still, why are you treating an unfeeling machine like a person you can speak to?)

The phrase "Performance-enhancing divinity" may be my new favourite thing I've read all day.