#regulate penises

[misterlemonztenth]

07-22-24 | misterlemonztenth.tumblr.com/archive

[geezerwench]

Pregnancy begins with a penis.

[jellybeanium124]

Do you legitimately think men don't harass women in bathrooms? Like genuinely? Cause I can tell you right now, my middle and high school had shared bathrooms and the boys absolutely fucking harassed the girls all the fucking time.

To make fun of them when they heard period product wrappers and to make sex jokes.

I'd love to live in your world where people avoid eye contact in bathrooms 100% of the time, but alas, some of us live in the real world.

You not having a shitty experience with a predator or an abuser doesn't mean others have never experiences such.

I'm sorry that happened to you and I am aware this thing happens sometimes.

on an unrelated note, trans women are women. they aren't men. and they are much, much more likely (MUCH MORE!!!!!!!) to be assaulted than do the assaulting.

on a third unrelated note, you can go into whatever bathroom you want because there are no bathroom police. I (cis woman) have gone into multi-stalled men's bathrooms multiple times and nothing happened. I did not cross dress in order to do it. I didn't have to! because there are no bathroom police. I especially did not have to go thru the mega-hassle of getting T or doing any other sort of medical transition. I walked in there, boobs boobing, hair long, no make-up, and did my business and left. crazy how you can just like, walk thru doorways, huh. that's always the thing that gets me about your arguments. you can go into whatever bathroom you want, and so can everyone else, and the only thing stopping you are societal rules we impose on ourselves. there is no potty police. no bathroom brigade. no privy vigilantes. no can commanders. no facility fighters.

on a fourth unrelated note (brought to you by innuendo studios), you are falling for the conservative framework where bad things either happen, or they don't. school shootings happen or they don't. people either die from preventable illnesses or they don't. sexual assaults either happen or they don't. therefore there's no point to doing anything about it because you can't regulate evil. or, really, you can't regulate all evil. there is no world where every single assault, shooting, death from preventable illness, or whatever doesn't happen. you are leaving absolutely no room for scale. if one woman gets assaulted in the bathroom, then assaults happen and we all need to fear the penis!!!! when that's just not the world we live in. penises are not evil contraptions of the devil constantly trying to penetrate you. most people, regardless of gender, do not give a shit about you. most people mind their own damn business. nobody is out to get you. men are not constantly thinking about preying on you. they're probably thinking about football. or work. or music. or their kids. or shopping they need to do. or about their blorbos. or about plans this saturday they're looking forward to. or a million billion things that have absolutely nothing to do with you, some stranger they will never see again.

I'm not saying we should all go walk down strange dark alleyways at night hugging the wall but like... I am really genuinely sorry if you spend all your time afraid and angry. I've perused terf blogs on occasion. all y'all are afraid and angry all the time. and sure, that's just a tumblr blog. idk what you do offline. but anyways, you don't have to be afraid and angry all the time. you shouldn't be in a community that constantly affirms your worst fears in order to keep you afraid and angry. terfs prey on hurt, confused, scared women and tell them "yes, all men are evil!" and "yes, you are valuable just for being a woman!" and suck them into this ideology of hate (ironically this sentence is also a borrowed observation from the alt-right playbook, and maybe the fact that your movement does the same thing to you as the alt-right does to vulnerable, hurt, confused, and scared cishet white men should be a red flag but idk).

maybe that just sounds patronizing. but I mean it. you really don't have to be afraid and angry all the time.

but if you send me any more asks especially if they're nastier you're getting blocked.

[bootleg-nessie]

List of Extremely Cursed Knowledge

Having autism and ADHD is a blessing and a curse because on one hand, I’m basically a walking encyclopedia of random facts and information. On the other hand, a fair amount of that information is so fucked up that it’s not socially acceptable to share it with anyone. So naturally, I took every fucked up fact, every bit of twisted trivia, every bit of cursed knowledge that I could come up with off the top of my head and compiled it into one big list to post on the internet. Some of this information may permanently ruin your (you, the reader) perception of certain things. None of this information should have ever seen the light of day, and a fair amount of it was never, ever meant to be known by humans.

You cannot unlearn anything on this list. This is your chance to scroll past.

You have been warned.

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According to FDA standards, a jar of peanut butter is allowed to have up to seven (7) rat hairs before it’s considered unfit for human consumption. If it has 7 or less rat hairs it will still be sold in stores.

If I just ruined peanut butter for you, don’t google the FDA regulations on any other foods you enjoy.

Human teeth have 36 calories each.

The average human body has roughly 125,000 calories. This is actually relatively low, which makes cannibalism in humans generally unsustainable.

Human meat tastes like pork.

Penguins have been observed practicing necrophilia.

Dolphin vaginas secrete a substance that acts like an aphrodisiac on steroids. When scientists swabbed some of it on a chimpanzee’s penis, it masturbated so furiously that it had a heart attack and died.

Dolphins have been known to intentionally commit suicide if kept in poor conditions.

Scientists that work with cockroaches often become allergic due to exposure. Simultaneously, they also develop an allergy to chocolate and pre-ground coffee. Make of that what you will.

Dolphins have been observed masturbating using decapitated fish heads.

Dolphins have been observed getting high on pufferfish venom recreationally, sometimes even passing a pufferfish around like a joint.

There’s a LOT of rape across the entire animal kingdom. Like, a LOT. It’s especially prevalent in dolphins, otters, ducks, penguins, and primates, to name a few.

On a related note, female ducks have corkscrew shaped vaginas. Male ducks also have corkscrew shaped penises that measure in at a whopping eighteen inches.

The barnacle has the largest penis to body size ratio in the animal kingdom, with its penis being up to eight times as long as its body.

Chimpanzees have been observed using frogs as a fleshlight.

A disembodied human head weighs about 10-12 lbs and is balanced in such a way that requires you to use both hands to pick up.

Pigs will eat every single part of a corpse - including bones. In 2012 a farmer in Oregon was eaten by his pigs after having a heart attack and falling in their enclosure. This also makes pig pens a prime spot for dumping bodies.

A body will decompose faster if you fill the rectal cavity with yogurt before burying it

When burying a body, make sure to bury it in a heavily wooded area. If vegetation is too sparse and/or the body isn’t buried deep enough, it will be easily noticeable after a few months because plants will grow in much thicker directly above where the body was buried.

You cannot bury a body in sand, as sand is too porous. The smell will seep through and give away the location

The entire universe could theoretically exist as a false vacuum and collapse into nothingness at any moment without warning.

Any alien civilization advanced enough to detect life on earth is also probably advanced enough to destroy our entire planet almost immediately. At the peak of interstellar technology, the only limiting factor is the speed of light. If they decided to attack, we probably wouldn’t even know it was coming until the entire surface of the planet was already vaporized.

It takes three and a half rotations to fully detach a human head from its body.

Recently deceased bodies can experience rigor erectus, which translates to “death boner.” This is especially common in victims of hanging, as it’s primarily caused by trauma to the cerebellum or spinal cord.

There is an extremely real chance that you have unknowingly purchased a product that was made by modern day slaves at least once in your life. Coffee, cotton, fish, clothes, shoes, and technology are among the most vulnerable industries.

A decapitated head remains conscious for several seconds after separated from the body.

The entire koala population across Australia is currently undergoing a major chlamydia epidemic. It’s actually been extremely devastating for them and they’re currently facing the threat of extinction because of it.

[leafteaposts]

More head canons ABO AU

Long text about my head canon/ world building on abo zosan fic I'm working on.

Anatomy, Heats, Ruts and some hot take on bitching.

Feel free to ask questions if any comes to mind~

Betas

Do not experience heats or ruts but they can go into pseudo heats and ruts to help their pack-mates regulate and balance pheromones.

They are masters at balancing group scents and neutralize pheromones in tense situations. Betas can thus manipulate an alpha or omega in a contesting group with smells that make them less inclined to attack and/or fight. Betas are praised for this ability and while a crew may exist without an alpha or omega, without a beta it is very hard to keep the balance in the group.

Usopp thinks about this a WHOLE lot. Not that he stresses about this or feels any pressure, no way! Didn't you know the great scenter Usopp not only scented a whole country on the brink of civil war he scented them so good and into such harmony and balance he was crowned their hero and offered their most beautiful princess to marry. He had to decline the offer of course as a brave and powerful warrior of the sea he needed to set sail.

No? Well now you know, you silly goose.

Ruts

Alpha men and women have a penis and can impregnate others, only female alphas can get impregnated as they also have a vagina and birth canal. However due to much higher hormone production they may find it harder to get pregnant than betas and omegas.

Alphas go into ruts typically each month. Normally a Rut is over in two to tree days, unless spent with a mate. If their partner are an omega in heat, then it normally adapts up to the omegas breeding need, normally about a week but can be longer or shorter. Ruts need not be sexual, some just feel a heightened need to scent their packs, increase of aggression or posturing that a beta (or old alpha) may help balance with pheromones. Often more needy and want to be seen and praised for their efforts of pleasing their pack. Some alphas sleep a lot after a rut due to they exhaust themself by helping their pack and or training, fighting etc.

Depending on their health they can "jump" in their rut cycle. For example if very sick and/or injured. But also if they are suffering from severe mental illness, their pheromones and nervous systemen may "jump" some ruts to preserve energy and or protect the alpha from losing control and starting an unnecessary fight. The other extreme that can happen is an increase of hormones and pheromones making the alpha go into an overdrive rut. Those ruts turns them very aggressive, they get territorial and challenge alphas and opponents that they normally never would due to obvious power disparity, but also gets a boost of adrenaline and endurance. Zoro may enter this state when fighting in in life or death fights like the one in Wano. (or most of his big fights tbh)

Alphas are normally well equipped and all have the tissue needed at the base of their penises to create a knot. Knotting during sex is a euphoric experience for alphas and the emotional and hormonal high they get from knotting and staying locked together with their partner is a need in an alpha, especially during ruts. They can therefore sometimes be accused of asking too much, too early in a sexual relationship as knotting may not be every partners cup of tea so to speak.

Omegas are better equipped to stand knotting due to their own high it may bring during sex as they are deeply affected by alpha pheromones. Alphas can mate and bond to whoever, but are instinctively submissive to omegas and their moods. This is probably to not hurt them during heat and/or their own rut. They may find it hard to deny an omegas request, especially if they are in the same pack.

They also show this more submissive behavior (showing their neck, grunts, chuffs, whining like big babies) when they want to be included in pack building/nest bonding but as omegas normally don't let alphas into their nests they may be excluded at times. When they do get allowed into a cuddle puddle or nest cuddle they are like happy dogs or lazy cats depending how they may be affected by this kind of closeness. (I like to think Zoro gets SO happy when included, but try to be stoic about it and not appear needy when the non alphas in the crew scent or cuddles in the nest or on the deck. Luffy is a special case as the pack can keenly feel his extreme need for closeness. That does not give him entrance tickets to nest bondings thou.) Alphas often feel a need to please omegas, even if they are not sexually attracted or bonded to them. Omegas are in the same boat toward alphas, they are more likely to fawn and preen in front of an alpha in pre rut to please and maintain balance in the pack. For omega/alpha partners this can be very exiting and thrilling.

Alphas are often doting on their packs and want to have an eye on them, and during rut this instinct can go into such overdrive they turn aggressive against people that are not part of their group. This often makes them isolate in a rut room (especially if they have a sexual rut) or in the enclosed territory their pack have scented so they may be around and be soothed by their pack. Other alphas in the pack may spar and play figth to help each other blow off some steam. If they experience a sexual rut and they do have a partner/mate that are willing to help them the rut may end quicker, But there are plenty of toys they may use. Knotting in a fleshlight may not be as good as the real deal, but it takes the edge off and helps them throu the rut more comfortably.

Most of the time an alphas rut is very stable once it passes their presentation/adolescent years. For rut jumping and overdrive it needs to be rather a serious illness, hormone issues and/or a traumatic event that deeply affect the alpha. Examples are sudden loss of their mate or child, losing their whole pack, bitching, serious traumatic injury or sickness, (Physical and or mental)

When in rut an alphas scent is stronger, sticks for longer and is much easier to smell from long distances if not using salves/scent muting aids. Zoro is especially bad at muting his scent as he have used it and his pheromones too aggressively dominate opponents in his start as a bounty hunter. The crew grow used to it but others may find him extra intimidating due to this.

Both Zoro and Luffy experience rut jumpings in the two year time skip when separated from their pack. Luffy who suffers from separation anxiety have actually quite a few problems with rut jumping. After marineford he did not have a rut for almost a whole year. Zoros rut beacome unregular, something he had never experienced before. Took him almost a year to center himself and getting control of his ruts again. This training did give him an strong control over himself when in rut and/or faced with others in rut/heat so not to be as affected by others pheromones and smell. Is the most stable in the straw hats for a reason. ( But is also an expression of his need for control especially after thriller bark and 2 year TS)

Heats

Both female and male omegas have a birth canal and vagina. Male omegas also have a penis and testicles, but are smaller than betas and alphas. Both can be impregnated, only male omegas may impregnate but may have lower chances to do so than betas and alphas.

One unusual and sometimes explotited thing with omega biology is that they can carry litters from more than one sire. If they have multiple partners during a heat (especially if there are alphas that keep triggering the heat to last and or restart) the children born may be from all of the partners. Some omegas also have double pregnancies. That is to say they get pregnant again during the pregnancy and may birth another pup about one to two months after the first litter is born. This takes a heavy toll on the omega but is one of the reasons omegas are sought after in sexual slavery or in cultures where a lot of heirs are a priority and they are more or less looked upon as breeding tools.

Omegas suffers from sexual slavery the most along with female mermaids and may be offered as prices and accessories to the wealthy and powerful. Alabasta and Water 7 are places that have long tried to stop this discrimination and are looked upon as safe havens in the grand line. Kamabakka kingdom is another, more secret place. Wano protects their omegas, but the sexist practices against women also affects omegas whether male or female. They are often considered even more in need of protecting and are not allowed to carry the sword. (We see traces of this in Zoro's upbringing.)

Omegas in heats are more vulnerable for attack due to how their bodies react during heats and this is one of the reasons they are looked (down) upon as in bigger need of protection in many countries as well as why they are discriminated against.

They experience heats every three months. When presenting during adolescence it tends to come and go in waves and they may have two heats in just one month, or one every month. Adolescence is typically a hard time for omegas and they need family/their pack to be balanced. The less secure environment, the more fluctuations until their heats stabilises in the typical three month cycle.

Most heats are familial and they spend it with their beta and/or omega pack mates. Normally a heat lasts for about a week, and is really intense three to four days. Depending on the person it may be the first, middle or the last day of the heat.

Symptoms of a heat is usually fever, cramps, overproduction of slick, oversensitivity to lots of fabrics, increased and more sensitive sense of smell. A higher sensitivity to obey timbre and scruffing, which is why most omegas want to isolate in their nests or dens with trusted ones during heats. The need to look after their pack increases and may manifest by scenting and cuddling. But may also express more controlling behaviors to keep an eye on everybody and keep them close. They feel a strong need to protect their space where their people are.

Omegas smell very good during heats and one of the reasons alphas avoid them unless they are mates, as they may trigger a rut and thus trigger the omega into a sexual heat.

A sexual heat is normally a sweaty affair and if unlucky lasts the whole week in a breeding frenzy. Most omegas find this very tiring and normally don't have the stamina to pleasure themself during a whole week. If exposed or triggered by Alphas they may go into a breeding heat/ frenzy, their need to mate/breed completely overtake and they go almost feral. This can be used agains omegas and why they may show a more aggressive attitude against alphas. While in a sexual heat and without a partner toys helps take the edge off and lower the need of sex. And stable pack mates may help stabilize their pheromone and hormone production back to a standard heat.

I like to think there are knot rings they use and/or dildos that are equipped with pheromones/hormones that simulate the experience of mating. When used this eases the omega out of the sexual heat so they can faster return to their pack. Knotting and getting breed helps the heat end faster unless the alpha can't control their phermones and kick-starts another heat.

Hot take? Omegas are the most territorial ones. Once they have a pack they are very aggressive about protecting it. Alphas help scent and secure the "borders" of their omegas territory. If there is no omega in a pack the alpha takes on the role to scent and maintain territory but is not as defensive about it (unless in rut) as an omega may be.

Sunny is an example of a territory, and the nesting space an omega create is off limits to the pack unless invited in. An alpha that gets to cuddle and get pampered in an omegas nest after an injury for example is very lucky as they are most often excluded from this space due to their smell. Luffy can sit and look at the nest in the doorway with the biggest puppy eyes and only get snarls and hisses from Sanji. He is the most territorial omega anybody ever will meet.

But, he also takes VERY good care of his pack. As he makes food even during heats (unless it is too intense and he is incapacitated.) he does have problems denying women of course even if they are alphas, but not even an alpha lady is allowed near his nest unless under special circumstances. His instincts can go haywire and he borders on feral when policing his space, and he feels extra protective about the galley when stressed.

Bitching.

Personally I don't really like the idea that one can turn another alpha into an omega by bitching. (I have been thinking too much about reproductive function and suddenly growing them because bitching just feels wrong for me, lol). In my au a bitched alpha is an alpha that have been through abuse and/or traumatic events. Examples can be rape, slavery, domestic abuse, loss of their whole pack when very young and left to fend for themself, aggressive and distressing force scentings from other alphas that show dominance and leave their scent on the other, etc.

The term bitching is thus a derogatory term and is locked down upon by many.

For one to be "bitched" an alpha have suffered this in such intense and long period of time their pheromone production is forever damaged and their nervous system can't regulate it at all. They may smell like pre puberty alphas and their pheromones always smell "broken" when released, especially when upset/when they feel strong emotions. Ruts are often irregular, the need to show aggression to protect themselfs often turns into fear and posturing. A bitching often happens when the alpha is young and defenseless growing up, but may also happen to adult alphas that been so badly traumatized they can never properly recover. This practise is often used to keep dominance in a pack by ruling with fear, or used in war/torture. Some pirate fleets (and marines) are not below this behavior and they terrifies the areas where they roam. Even betas and omegas can technically be "bitched" too but alphas are seemingly more sensitive to getting their phermone and hormone production disrupted/destroyed.

PHEW that was a lot. My spell/ grammar check is out of whack and english is not my first language, so if there are a lot of mistakes I'm really sorry, but really wanted to get this out today.

[browserfreak]

I can say I want to get rid of my boobs all I want but as soon as I say that I want male genitals everyone in the near vicinity is out for my blood

I get that they're organs that can be used for sex, yes, but also they are used to piss and regulate hormones and the like. Stop being weird about trans men wanting penises

[beabaseball]

I fell down a weird... hole in the internet the last 24 hours, reading articles that I want to talk about but cannot talk about for the exact reasons I want to talk about them. I've backed all these links up on the wayback machine in fear they ever go offline. All of these are explicit, talk about sex and genitalia explicitly, and discuss consent, social suppression, and non-consent. First, The Tearoom - A public bathroom simulator about police surveillance of MSM (men who have sex with men) based off a nonfiction study from the US and UK from the 1970s. Sent me off on so many directions, I clicked every god damn link this thing has. What I remember is mostly in the area of sexuality but only because the guns and masculinity commentary are so smoothly succinct.

"What if this gun is my penis" is a pretty obvious metaphor, but it helped me ensure a variety of shapes to orally service. You could say gun culture is somewhat body-positive -- there is relatively little size-shaming around unique pistol designs (e.g. a Mauser C96) or unique concepts (e.g. the trendy "Obrez"), a gun can be "cool" for a myriad of reasons. Take that, size queens! More importantly, guns also help me escalate my resistance against Twitch's draconian game-banning policies because guns are clearly not penises. Therefore, there is no basis for Twitch to ban my game, like it banned the rest of my games -- however, if they still ban my game, then it will be the first time in history that the game industry regulates and bans a game about guns

The Husband Stitch by Carmen Maria Machado - a short story, discussed in the next article. Warnings are for themes of non-consent (which is different from sexual assault, but also a warning for a mentioned semi-described sexual assault), explicit sexual situations, and just. The scariest stage directions I've ever read. Cultural context just in case: the green ribbon is a reference to this specific retelling as a children's story, which may be spoilers but I assume you're expected to recognize it? And 'The Husband Stitch' a medical practice/myth/nightmare where, during vaginal birth where the perineum is torn or cut, it is stitched up... with one extra stitch "for the husband" to make the wife tighter when having vaginal sex. Something about a human being an object for the pleasure of someone else. Of bodies not belonging to themselves. Not of specific incidents of trauma but the damage of existing in a world in a way that has you cut away pieces of yourself. I want to talk about this story and what I still don't understand about it. I want to talk about the ribbons.

What I Don't Tell My Students About 'The Husband Stitch' - an article discussing the above story. I guess it doesn't say anything you don't already get from the story. I think it intentionally glosses over the consent themes to focus on the disbelief at the root of that consent violation, and the role that disbelief plays in specifically misogyny. Which is also in racism, in antisemitism, in the way absolute reality is unbearable. Something something. Gender and sexuality. Something something, even as an aroace agender, the kindness and necessity of depicting perversion in art.

[ekebolou]

...I got tagged in a thing. I never get tagged in a thing! So I’m going to do the thing.

8 Shows to Know Me By...

Okay, so this is pretty hard, but I’m going with some instinct here... Like @afhenley​ said, I also had a regulated TV watching childhood. And I got sucked in to anime right when it was becoming much more widely available in the US, so I had that nice weird mix of bootlegs sourced from older dudes who suspiciously only had friends in highschool and below and like... TV dubs.

But I guess I should start with

Gundam Wing

DID YOU GUESS THAT THE LEGACY ANIME ABOUT MILITARY PHILOSOPHY AND INTERPERSONAL CONFLICT THAT WAS ALSO A WEE BIT GAY WOULD BE INFLUENTIAL? well then you get a cookie.

The Adventures of Pete & Pete

I don’t know if it’s actually a forgotten classic, but it feels like a forgotten classic and I own the DVD sets. Grunge-alternative influenced, slightly gonzo semi-fantasy about suburbia’s inherent nonsensicalness and... friendship.

The Haunting of Hill House

Blatantly stealing this from Henly to appear somewhat modern. But also I loved this show. It’s a good example of how fundamentally different something something can be when you change the message, but that doesn’t necessarily make it bad. I am still waiting for a really good adaptation of the actual story though. Very happy to rewatch this a million times in the meantime.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Yes, I chose the seasons 3-6 image over the station because I wanted people who weren’t familiar to be able to see the CAST. the CAAAAST. So I watched a bit of Star Trek as a youth as reruns came on TV, but did a watch through of all the series from TOS until Enterprise killed me. DS9 is so good. So good.

Horatio Hornblower

Honestly some of this is just stuff I own. This is an obvious choice when you realize I am into maritime history. and a huge nerd. The pictures are getting bigger because I don’t know what I’m doing.

Ren & Stimpy

LOOK, it was either this or Beavis and Butthead, and I think this one edges them out because I wasn’t technically allowed to watch MTV late enough to catch Beavis and Butthead. You want to talk about problematic creators? here’s a way to, through what was genuinely a discomfiting and absurdist and hilarious show. As far as I know Mike Judge is cool. But I did watch this one more. and quote it occasionally.

Queer as Folk (American version)

Yet another show I watched when I wasn’t supposed to watching TV and only when special preview weekends or deals meant that our cable company was carrying it for free. But I met nice people through Queer as Folk and learned a lot and also saw a lot of penises. or very nearly. it was hard to tell through the snow.

PBS Mystery

Probably part of why I love Edward Gorey (or at least, a large part of why I’m familiar with him - I might love him because his work is great). This is a weird one because it was kind of treat, but I also kind of hated it? Like, you never knew what you would get, and it was cool, and I loved watching it with my Mom, but it was never regular thing and sometimes my little kid brain just wasn’t turning at the rpm that let me enjoy it.

Aaaaaan... I dunno who I should tag. I don’t know who’s already done it, and who would be interested, but I guess it is fun? and I am curious. Always, tags are optional - no need to respond if you’re tagged, but if you want to: @nanavn​, @dharmagun​, @astronicht​, @leakingoven​, @marisolinspades​

[omegasmileyface]

If half the population had a genetic advantage like Michael Phelps, and all athletics world records set by people without this advantage were beaten by people with this advantage by the time they were age 16, we 100% would categorise by it. But Phelps' supposed advantage is minuscule. Out of the 39 world records he set, he still holds only 4. Whereas a woman has never broken the 10sec mark for a 100m sprint, though countless men have and do, including teen boys and 40 year old men. All women's athletics world records are matched by boys age 14-15. Men can punch 2.5 times as hard as women, all else being equal. That's insane! Not to mention women's necks and skulls are less robust and cannot take punches as well. Males like Khelif should not be in the ring with women, ever, it is both unfair and extremely dangerous, not to mention demoralising as hell. Go and see how upset the women were in the 2016 women's 800m, where gold silver and bronze all went to XY 5-ARD men. They knew there was no hope of winning vs that.

...no we wouldn't? biological sex (or at least one aspect of it— typically we divide by genitalia but you're proposing dividing by chromosome? and these things don't always go together, and i think the ADVANTAGE you're talking about comes from hormonal balance, which we'll talk about in a bit) is almost entirely the ONLY feature-correlating-to-success that we segregate sports by, except weight (only in the case of wrestling) and certain types of disability (in the case of the paralympics).

the vast majority of track records, for instance, are won by Black athletes, but if you said that means runners should be separated by race, people would correctly call you a racist— not to mention that means drawing a line on where Blackness starts and ends. uh oh! and we face the same problem if we decide to segregate by hormonal balance. there are people with vaginas and unaltered chemistry who have MORE testosterone than some people with penises and unaltered chemistry. It's not two disparate numbers, its an overlapping spectrum that just has two modes.

for a second example, synchronized diving gold medals are almost exclusively held by Chinese teams. does that mean, for non-Chinese athletes to have a fair shot, we should make them compete separately? and most of the best skateboarders are under 20, should we have "The US Olympic Older Skateboarders' Team"? and high-jumpers are almost exclusively tall. I'm 5'3" but i deserve a fair shot too, should they make a Short High Jumpers team i can try out for? in the Olympics? the celebration of the best athletes on Earth, many of whom have freaky body abnormalities that make them better at sports?

if i, a perisex-to-my-knowledge AFAB person who has never undergone any hormone therapy (well, other than a monthly birth control that pumps me full of estrogen for 21 days and then takes it away so as to regulate my period), trained my whole life to be the best hurdle jumper I could, and fantasized about being the champion, and then I went to compete against the champion and they said "no- you were born differently, you're not allowed to compete against the champion" i would be FUCKING PISSED.

and thats talking about desegregating sports ENTIRELY. we're just talking today about a person who has gone her whole life being told "youre a woman, a cis woman" due to her having the things we use to categorize a person as female, and people being mad at her for... what? complying with a system that says "genitalia determines team"? because of an attribute that cannot be seen without genetic testing? would you have had her say "no! ill play on the men's team, despite being a woman AND cisgender"??? or just not compete at all? after training her whole life? its the OLYMPICS. some people are gonna have an easier time hitting recirds than others. thats WHY WE HAVE A FESTIVAL, is to gawk at those people. THATS SPORTS. thats the endlessly diverse human condition.

anyway, im confused and flattered that you came to ME for this seeing as i havent actually said anything on this subject myself before, unless youre just sending this to everyone who reblogs a certain post. i dont expect you or anyone to read this, but everyday justice dies in silence. anyway, the olympics has way worse problems than this. go put up some posters about masking for the physical safety and health of women amidst covid, or explain to your friends how the genocides in Palestine and Sudan are destroying and maiming thousands of women. what you're doing right now is not protecting women, just an arbitrary status quo. i promise that NO policy they choose to implement or not implement at the olympics will have as much impact on the wellbeing of women as a whole, however you define that word, than volunteering at your local food bank or raising awareness about the way the Olympics plays with the lives of the homeless to function.

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The war of the dick togs: our Greatest Moral Battle

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The war of the dick togs: our Greatest Moral Battle

Australia’s greatest moral battle was fought on the beaches as churches sought to enforce who could swim — when they could swim — and what they could wear — the war of the dick togs.

Going to the beach only emerged as a popular leisure activity around the time of federation.

Changing into a bathing suit and plunging into the waves might seem as natural as riding a horse or kicking a ball. But in the early 1900s, Australians risked arrest for a daylight dip and ‘surf bathing’ remained a contentious issue across much of the country.

Mixed bathing

It was all about sex. A great moral battle raged across the nation.

“An abomination,” thundered Melbourne’s Archbishop Carr.

“The thin end of the wedge,” agreed Archbishop Duhig.

Not wanting to be outdone by papists, Reverend Adamson of the Methodist Conference chimed in: “Hideously immoral.”

“Cutting at the very taproot of national life,” wrote a correspondent to the Adelaide Register.

Doomsayers predicted the end of civilisation as we knew it, a descent into Sodom and Gomorrah, the destruction of traditional Christian marriage, and the wrath of a vengeful God. It’s a very slippery slope. Won’t someone think of the children!

The issue? Gender-neutral beaches, or in the parlance of the day, mixed bathing.

When the Australian colonies federated on 1 January 1901, municipal laws across much of the country prohibited swimming in the ocean during daylight hours. Numerous jurisdictions echoed section 77 of the New South Wales Police Act.

“Whosoever bathes in any part of Sydney Cove, or in any waters exposed to view from any wharf, street, public place, dwelling house in or near the said city or towns between the hours of six o’clock in the morning and eight in the evening shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding one pound.”

Men monopolised municipal beaches, bathing naked during the hours of darkness.

Increasing numbers of swimmers saw the morning session extended to 8 am. But that failed to satisfy the growing population of surf bathers. Other councils followed suit after Randwick Council legalised all-day surf bathing in December 1902. However, numerous new regulations replaced the old prohibition. Towns with big enough beaches segregated them — men here, women over there. Otherwise, councils stipulated separate times for male and female bathing.

The erections on Cottesloe Beach

Most local government authorities also banned wearing swimming costumes on the beach. Bathers had to change from daywear into swimsuits in bathing sheds, walk directly to the water with no loitering and, when they exited the waves, stride briskly back to the change rooms to change into streetwear before they sat on the sand.

In 1906, Freemantle’s Councillor Nicolas demanded: “The works committee go and look at the erections on Cottesloe beach.”

He did not refer to proud, blood-swollen penises sprouting on the sand like so many rampant sea slugs.

He spoke, of course, of dressing sheds.

Mr Nicolas thought the existing structures sufficient. However, Councillor Stevens desired the construction of mobile sheds that could be wheeled to the water’s edge. That would preclude bathers emerging from the surf and promenading across the beach with their scanty neck-to-knee bathing costumes clinging indecently to their bodies.

Predictions of a slippery slope proved prescient. Once swimmers achieved the right to bathe during daylight hours, they then agitated for gender-neutral beaches. Families wished to visit the beach as a group. They wanted to have picnics. They yearned to dip their toes in the shallows and frolic on the sand together. Few Australian women could swim, so men wished to teach their wives and daughters how to ensure their safety.

‘We told you so’, wailed the wowsers. But no one listened, so they then claimed religious discrimination. If men and women gathered willy-nilly on the shore, they whined; it would prevent good, decent, God-fearing Christians opposed to such debauchery from enjoying a day at the beach.

(And there’d be floods, fire, famine, locust plagues etc.)

No good — councils eventually surrendered to popular sentiment and desegregated the beaches, sometimes jolted into action by a spate of female drownings.

Dick togs

But wowsers, as we all know, never give up attempting to impose their beliefs on everyone else. So, they moved on to dictating dick togs. But without the dicks. Because Australia’s moral guardians insisted on swimwear designed to deny the existence of genitalia.

No camel toes or visible penis lines on Australian beaches.

Male and female swimsuits needed to cover the body from neck to knee with shoulders shrouded to the elbow and necklines no lower than two inches below the throat. A skirt of between six to twenty-four inches in length should encircle the entire waist of both men and women. Loincloths would not suffice. A belt should be worn to prevent mischievous ocean currents from dacking unsuspecting swimmers. The fabric should be black or dark blue and thick enough to avoid accentuating the outlines of the body. Not tight-fitting.

Brisbane Council, among others, required housewives to visit City Hall and take a copy of the approved pattern.

Even when Brisbane eventually allowed unskirted swimsuits, it required males 14 and over to wear a ‘V’ underneath their one-piece — a sturdy jock-style garment designed to compress the male genitalia and visually desex the male swimmer. Tucking underwear. Damn your dick togs to a fiery hell.

Beach inspectors and police checked that: “bathing costumes were not indecent or inadequate or that the material thereof was not too thin or in a proper state of repair or is, for any reason, unsuitable.”

Surf lifesaving associations, then in their infancy, complained the skirted swimsuits cost lives. Both swimmers and their rescuers risked becoming entangled in the skirts.

Scores of men rocked up to the beach in drag. They borrowed dresses and skirts from their wives, mums and sisters and camped it up to the horror of municipal authorities.

The dragged-up swimmers intimidated the wowsers en masse, but cops, clergymen and council beach inspectors waited for quieter days and picked off the dick-tog wearers one by one, fining them a shilling here and a shilling there.

Female surf bathers 

However, eventually, wowsers found easier targets. Women became enamoured of the beach, and male officialdom transferred their attention to harassing them. Until well into the 1960s, beach inspectors patrolled city beaches across Australia, armed with tape measures to check women’s bikinis complied with civic requirements.

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[kaysayurveda]

Ayurvedic Medicine for Erectile Dysfunction

Ayurvedic medicine is an ancient medical system that is still widely used in India.

Ayurvedic treatments typically use plant-based materials such as herbs, along with lifestyle changes, to treat physical and mental health issues.

Some people utilize ayurvedic treatment for erectile dysfunction (ED).

ED is the inability to get or keep a firm erection.

Significant research is lacking on the efficacy of Ayurvedic treatments to treat this condition.

Even so, anecdotal evidence and studies done primarily on rats point to positive effects.

We’ll go into detail about the practice of Ayurveda and erectile dysfunction in this article.

Characteristics of ED

People with erectile dysfunction can’t get or maintain an erection firm enough to use during penetrative sex.

ED is usually caused by problems with the blood supply to the penis.

This condition becomes more common as people with penises age.

ED can happen occasionally, because of stress or other issues.

Long-term or consistent ED may signal an underlying health problem, such as:

insomnia

hypertension

type 2 diabetes

alcohol misuse

prostate problems

It may also indicate emotional or psychological issues.

ED can be highly distressing for people who have it.

It can also negatively impact you’re your relationships.

Often, addressing the underlying cause will be effective at eliminating ED.

What is Ayurvedic medicine?

Ayurveda is a natural system of medicine.

It originated in India over 3,000 years ago, where it is still practiced and administered by trained professionals.

Ayurvedic medicine is based on the concept of addressing imbalances in the body caused by stress and other factors.

It has been shown to have some benefits for managing type 2 diabetes symptoms.

People with ED who also have diabetes may see an improvement in both conditions from some Ayurvedic treatments.

Ayurvedic medicine utilizes many strategies that are known to be effective for reducing stress, such as:

yoga

meditation

massage therapy

It also utilizes herbs and dietary supplements which are not regulated in the U.S for medicinal use.

How it can help

Some of the herbs utilized in Ayurvedic medicine have been shown in animal studies to mitigate the effects of type 2 diabetes.

If this condition is a cause of your ED, you may see some benefits from Ayurveda.

Herbs have also been shown in animal studies to increase “sexual vigor” and libido.

They may have a similar effect on humans, although the research is lacking.

Lifestyle modifications that include stress busters such as yoga plus increased physical activity, can have highly beneficial results.

Exercise, meditation, and yoga can benefit some underlying causes of ED.

They can also support enhanced blood flow throughout the body, including to the penis.

Stress reduction and mood elevation is a large, added plus.

How to take/implement Ayurvedic medicine

Ayurvedic treatments vary. You can work with a seasoned practitioner or try to utilize some common treatments at home. Ayurvedic preparations to try include:

Withania somnifera (Indian ginseng)

Withania somnifera is an herb commonly used in ayurvedic medicine.

It’s also called Indian ginseng and ashwagandha.

It has been found to improve sperm count and semen volume.

While this doesn’t specifically address ED, it may be beneficial for some people.

Indian ginseng works by regulating hormone levels and eliminating free radicals.

Indian ginseng has been shown to increase testosterone levels in older men who have overweight.

Due to its regulatory function, it may have some benefit for people with low testosterone.

The herb is also used to improve mental clarity and help reduce stress.

Both factors can have an impact on ED symptoms.

You can purchase this herb from most drug stores and health food stores.

It’s available as a powdered root extract and in capsule form.

In order for it to be most effective, it’s recommended that the daily dosage be tailored to each individual.

Asparagus racemosus

Asparagus racemosus is a particular species of herb that grows in regions of India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka.

In Ayurveda, it’s known as shatavari, or “curer of one hundred diseases.”

The Asparagus racemosus root is used in many preparations of ayurvedic vajikarana mixtures: It’s meant to improve sexual function and health.

An on hyperglycemic male rats showed benefits for reducing sexual dysfunction.

Some studies have shown its effectiveness on the male reproductive system in its capability to improve circulation and calm nerves.

Both of these benefits should aid men with ED.

In the ayurvedic tradition, it’s also believed to be an aphrodisiac that promotes love and loyalty in those who use it.

Asparagus racemosus extract is available as a tincture and as a powder, but there has been little to no research on what the optimal daily dosage for a person would be.

Safed musli

Safed musli, or Chlorophytum borivilianum, is also a vajikarana herb.

It was shown to boost libido in an animal study on rats.

Another animal study on rats indicated that it boosted sperm count and sexual activity. It can be purchased in capsule or pure powder form.

Yoga

To really embrace the ayurvedic method of treatment for any health condition, physical activity should be part of your treatment.

The practice of yoga is being researched more and more for its health benefits.

Yoga combines stretching, concentration, and meditation, improving circulation and reducing stress levels.

The stress-level benefit alone might be enough to improve symptoms of ED, but yoga has also been shown to promote healthy levels of testosterone.

Provided you’re healthy enough to engage in light aerobic exercise, you can begin a yoga practice at any time by attending a class led by a yogi or even following an exercise DVD or app at home.

Risks of Ayurvedic Medicine and How to Reduce Them

There are multiple risks to using ayurvedic herbal preparations.

These risks can be mitigated by working with a seasoned Ayurvedic practitioner, coupled with a licensed medical healthcare professional.

It’s important to know what you’re taking, what it contains, and how it will interact with other medications you’re on.

Only use herbs and supplements purchased from a reputable, transparent manufacturer who readily supplies comprehensive information about their ingredients and testing facilities.

Also, make sure to let your doctor know of any at-home preparations you’re planning to use before you start.

Potential risks include:

ingestion of toxic substances, such as arsenic, lead, or mercury

overdosage of an herb or supplement

negative interaction between a supplement and a prescribed medication

Not much is known about the proper dosages of Ayurvedic herbs and their possible interactions with other herbal and synthetic drugs.

Self-treating your ED with a combination of these herbs might be appealing, but without consulting your doctor first, the results are unpredictable.

[kirstenhacker]

Westworld vs. Wonderland 2

This is part two of my four part series on the four seasons of Westworld, a show that displays more penises than I ever recall seeing before. Stories about how the west was won are a fascinating tool to understand how the wild west of the internet evolves into a safe, regulated space. Part of this transition involves fights between those who value individual IP and those who don’t. Do…

[macarthurfranceshoweblog]

The fuck they wouldn't.

By the numbers, bullet firing vaginas would primarily be a threat to people with penises.

Penises that are also firearms would likely be fine, especially in places more likely to regulate vaginas than guns. Unless, of course, in the possession of a woman.

[radjoy]

One funny thing is that I hear so many TRAs talk about is how when you get into “higher level biology” suddenly people start saying men can be women and there’s no difference between males and females

But I was thinking about my PhD interviews and the researcher I was interviewing works in women’s health and we were talking about how female-specific issues are super underfunded, and talking about how the female body isn’t just a scaled down version of the male one, and she told me they call themselves “the ladies’ vagina club” and have that written on their door because they study vaginal models and women’s health, and that she loves walking into a conference and saying “VAGINA, CERVIX, UTERUS, VULVA” because “I love seeing the discomfort on their faces! Nobody flinches when we talk about penises, they’re just sexists who can’t stand talking about women’s bodies in a non-sexual way”, and then I went to see a woman’s thesis poster where she was talking about how they were studying immune cells in fat and how they got completely opposite data in male mice and female mice, and they showed the same gene was regulating completely different processes in male mice and female mice. Completely different! Which is unbelievably cool!

But it just made me think like... where? Where are these higher-level biologists that agree that men who’ve been operated on are indistinguishable from women? Because I’ve managed to be in medical research for years and not met a single one.