Via you-know-where:

The graphics in this article are excellent— this is a huge part of communications that has been missing. If you want to understand how layered interventions reduce #covid19 spread— why masks are indispensable but not always “enough” — read this.

And yeah, if you ever catch a whiff of someone else's tobacco smoke, that means....

It's true.

The other thing you have to worry about is penis squeezing. A penis is made for one vagina, if it gets squeezed by more than one it gets thinner and thinner, and eventually becomes pencil-thin.

The men boasting about their thick girth are boasting about their status as virgins, pure, and ready for a good woman.

I must admit I was not aware of memory foam vaginas. Makes you wonder if he knows where babies come from.

And well said NicoleK.

A message for God-Emperor Maximus Caesar Newsom:

https://twitter.com/noahsmom7/status/1321963661599059969

Vaginal squeezing, NicoleK?

I'm willing to take that risk!

Put some effort into it, lassie!

The chances of a marriage ending in divorce go up with the number of partners a woman has had. Even if a woman has been with one other man the chances of divorce jump from 30% to 50%.

The argument this man is making is silly but there is a deeper truth behind it.

In this case sleeping with lots of people creates psychological conditions that make it harder to settle down with one partner and form a family. This is especially true for woman and somewhat less so for men. This would be fine if not for the fact that stable families are the bedrock of civilized society.

There's a reason my community arranges marriages for couples when they are young. This doesn't always work out and sometimes people are very unhappy and some marriages end in divorce. But overall the typical Orthodox or Hasidic man and woman who get married at 18-20 have less mental health problems then the secular young people who sleep around well into their 30s.

Cite?

Yes. Please cite.

I can't remember the name of this book - I think it was one of the better-known books in its category, from 30 years ago or more, but it was a memoir of a woman who lived with the Amish for a while - and not by pretending to convert or any such deception. At any rate, for all her pleasant experiences, she said, at one point, that the Amish have pretty much the same rate of mental illness and suicide that the non-Amish do.

I was also reminded, just now, of this suggestion from a syndicated columnist in 2011 regarding a story of a 14-year-old girl who had told her mother she was planning to have sex with her 15-year-old boyfriend (the columnist was not directly consulted):

"Maybe (Dad's) not in the home, but if he’s available, he needs to sit down with his daughter and tell her how much he loves her and how important it will be to him that he walk a virgin to the altar, not to mention how important it will be to her husband."

I think most modern girls would see through that bluff immediately - or if not, they'd still laugh at Dad behind his back. Besides, the mother was clearly not religious or very conservative (that is, she was taken aback and didn't know what to do), so why would the girl's father be that different?

Why is it necessarily a bluff, you ask? Because if fathers and young men, on average, still felt so strongly about that, they'd be voting with their feet - and even cooperating. For example, parents could do what they did less than a century ago; they could tell their daughters that proper ladies do not leave their parents' home permanently until they marry, so the neighbors can't gossip as easily, and young men could facilitate that by marrying only women under twenty-one, since that's where the virgins are.

Of course, as any girl can observe, that doesn't happen, and for multiple reasons.

1. Young men and women alike will tell you that very often, in this century, they just don't see how they can afford to marry before age 30 or so.

2. A woman of 20, as a rule, does not WANT to marry an old man of 30. Plus, if HE has any sense, he does not want to risk the horrors of divorce court by marrying someone who's just too young. Even if he's almost that young himself.

3. It's commonly assumed, at least, that anyone, male or female, gay or straight, who's 30 and has never done more than kiss another person is either asexual or just plain unpopular. Who wants to risk such a marriage - and, again, divorce court?

4. Any girl can figure out that most parents today would agree that there are far worse things than having a daughter who has premarital sex before age 40. Namely, having a daughter who exploits the "stay-at-home" rule and never gets a good job or marries, or having a daughter who marries in haste, repents at leisure, and comes home after the divorce at age 22 with two babies who need extra support, since the young father can't do it all.

5. The columnist didn't say anything about the girl's hypothetical future husband being a virgin. Girls have plenty of reasons to reject double standards, one being that a husband who believes in double standards could easily be a cheater. Also, as Miss Manners said: "Victorian gossip is full of stories of innocent brides receiving unpleasant diseases on their wedding nights from their parent-chosen bridegrooms." (Obviously, it would be bad form for an "innocent bride" to demand, before the wedding, a doctor's note from her "parent-chosen bridegroom.")