I feel like risks permanent bodily harm is putting it lightly because pregnancy changes your body permanently even if everything goes "right" not to mention changes your brain permanently.
Patch testing likely wouldn't have made a difference, this is about extended use that probably broke down her skin's barrier over time.
When I had a baby and then got COVID, I started washing my hands more often, and really too often. Using the same gentle non scented antibacterial soap I had been for years, I turned my hands into a dry cracked and bleeding mess, and when I used the same gentle non scented oatmeal moisturizer I have used for years, I ended up with insane burning on the backs of my hands, and a bright red burn/rash. This was all in about a week.
I stopped using hot water to wash, and only used soap on my palms/fingers. I waited for my skin to repair itself. Now I continue to use that same soap and lotion with no problem. It was never the products that were the problem, it was over use.
I once asked my male partner to wipe down the bathroom counter because my grandparents were coming over. He did a bad job. I got upset about it. He said my expectations were too high. He had left a dead bug on the counter.
We absolutely do not have too high of expectations.
That's not necessarily a false sense of privacy if it works. There's an inconvenient barrier to searching vote history and if you do it in the current system you'd be recognized as petty at least. Easing access is not going to make Lemmy better.
As a teen I had little to no interest in penetration. Tampons didn't feel good, so why would I assume something else would? I wasn't really interested in penetration until I was interested in my partner specifically.
Once I (eventually) figured out pleasurable masturbation, I still stuck with external stuff mostly, and fingers in general. Eventually I got a job and a debit card and could privately online shop, but my little bag of toys continues to go mostly unused. Nothing beats my fingers.
I don't know about other women, but for me masturbation is and always has been much more about what's going on in my head, and then adding the pleasurable sensations to that, rather than experimenting with different sensations.
For a beginner I literally cannot imagine a cucumber. How many dicks are as thick as a grocery store cucumber? None I've seen in real life. Maybe in porn, but I can't think of any. It would just hurt. Beginners would need something maybe the size of 2 female fingers. (Maybe a farmers market cucumber that's skinnier?)
They say you can't repay sleep debt by sleeping in on another day, that it does not repair the damage you've done to your body by not giving it enough rest.
Yes, per semester. You can get away with way less if you go to a community college or online school.
Having gone to community college and a private college, the difference in class quality is great, but not over 10 times greater. Maybe three times greater? The state school classes I audited were zero to 1 times better to be honest.
If the boss was born in '46 this is true, but she's a lot more likely born at the later end of boomers, since '46 would age her at 78. I'm guessing she's at or below retirement age, not well above it
If the boomer is 60, it would only cost $2,267.87, adjusted.
If they're 65, it would have been 3,245.61.
The numbers I got for tuition today:
$41,540 at private colleges
$11,260 at public colleges (in-state residents)
$29,150 at public colleges (out-of-state residents)
This IS the tl;dr of the article first off, and second, just read the top "paragraph" (in quotes because it's only like 2 sentences). It's basically the tldr of the tldr
I just started Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb. So far a delight! By a therapist about therapy, and just the kind of humor I like in non fiction :)
I feel like risks permanent bodily harm is putting it lightly because pregnancy changes your body permanently even if everything goes "right" not to mention changes your brain permanently.