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Tue Mar-09-10 08:52 AM
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| 147. so you're saying there is no psychological component |
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to compulsive shopping, stealing or (ESPECIALLY)gambling??
wow...
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| -Too Much Sex? No Such Thing -- Why Sex Addiction Is Total B.S. |
jaysunb |
Mar-06-10 09:16 PM |
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Cool Story, Bro |
Happy Hippy |
Mar-06-10 09:17 PM |
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I WANT that addiction. |
cliffordu |
Mar-06-10 09:18 PM |
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It's awful Bro, |
jaysunb |
Mar-06-10 09:23 PM |
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I just caught the chronic masturbation version of that one..... |
cliffordu |
Mar-06-10 09:25 PM |
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ROFL ! |
jaysunb |
Mar-06-10 09:33 PM |
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Wear glasses yet, cliffordu? |
DemoTex |
Mar-07-10 11:14 AM |
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braille computer. |
cliffordu |
Mar-07-10 10:06 PM |
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But you have had all the 'fucking addictions' already. |
Ikonoklast |
Mar-07-10 11:44 AM |
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...Only if you're doing it right. |
cliffordu |
Mar-07-10 10:05 PM |
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"on which the survival of the species is dependent" |
Boojatta |
Mar-06-10 09:18 PM |
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I'd hate to go cold turkey n/t |
safeinOhio |
Mar-06-10 09:18 PM |
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That's a rookie mistake - take the turkey out of the fridge a bit earlier |
petronius |
Mar-06-10 11:56 PM |
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Oh no, |
safeinOhio |
Mar-07-10 07:54 AM |
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Has the Pope weighed in on this? |
SpiralHawk |
Mar-06-10 09:19 PM |
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Addiction should be something that is done so much that it interferes with one's normal life |
ck4829 |
Mar-06-10 09:19 PM |
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Exactly. Good point. |
Behind the Aegis |
Mar-06-10 09:24 PM |
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Eating disorders are treated using addiction paradigms |
seleff |
Mar-06-10 10:51 PM |
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i am no fan of '12-step' programs. |
dysfunctional press |
Mar-06-10 11:42 PM |
#46 |
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Your Ignorance is showing. 12 Step programs do not tell anyone to do anything |
digidigido |
Mar-07-10 11:20 AM |
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Some 12 steppers get so defensive when people point out the religiosity of their program. |
Hello_Kitty |
Mar-07-10 12:18 PM |
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Amen ! n/t |
jaysunb |
Mar-07-10 03:03 PM |
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I wasted years of my life in 12 steps. |
Hello_Kitty |
Mar-07-10 12:30 PM |
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Although 12-step programs help many |
lapislzi |
Mar-09-10 08:40 AM |
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I was referring to the title of the OP, which was a reference to the article posted. |
Behind the Aegis |
Mar-07-10 04:31 AM |
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... just one more, just one more link, then I'll go to sleep |
Voice for Peace |
Mar-07-10 10:53 AM |
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i knew i was losing my wife. i knew i would lose my kids. i couldnt stop |
seabeyond |
Mar-07-10 10:56 AM |
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To rub one out! ROFL!!!! |
kimmerspixelated |
Mar-08-10 04:53 PM |
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Hmm...I think that could be a problem... |
onpatrol98 |
Mar-08-10 06:08 PM |
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or being unable to control the urges when they interfere with things that matter to you. |
Voice for Peace |
Mar-06-10 10:22 PM |
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I saw a show on this once and the people talked about a lack |
roguevalley |
Mar-06-10 11:26 PM |
#41 |
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This sounds very plausible |
jaysunb |
Mar-06-10 11:38 PM |
#43 |
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for some people, sex can do that. |
dysfunctional press |
Mar-06-10 11:38 PM |
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Right. The amount isn't the point. n/t |
Orsino |
Mar-07-10 08:05 AM |
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If people were seeking help for it |
treestar |
Mar-07-10 10:10 PM |
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Unless your wife puts a golf club upside your head |
Fast Dude |
Mar-06-10 09:20 PM |
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Gambling, speeding, shoplifting, shopping |
sandnsea |
Mar-06-10 09:21 PM |
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Those aren't addictions, |
Codeine |
Mar-06-10 10:10 PM |
#32 |
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This is just a sad thread |
sandnsea |
Mar-06-10 10:24 PM |
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YOU KNOW IT SANDNSEA |
Skittles |
Mar-06-10 11:59 PM |
#52 |
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+1000 nt |
laughingliberal |
Mar-07-10 12:11 PM |
#83 |
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couldn't agree more |
BlancheSplanchnik |
Mar-07-10 12:32 PM |
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+100 |
dave29 |
Mar-08-10 07:38 PM |
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Actually, via brain plasticity that psychology/behavior also has a strong physiological component. |
HuckleB |
Mar-09-10 01:33 AM |
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so you're saying there is no psychological component |
Blue_Tires |
Mar-09-10 08:52 AM |
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You forgot "praying", sandnsea. |
Dogtown |
Mar-09-10 06:56 AM |
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actually i agree. when using religion as an outside source to fill a void within. |
seabeyond |
Mar-09-10 07:25 AM |
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The criteria for the proposed Hyposexual Disorder: |
rug |
Mar-06-10 09:21 PM |
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Do you think Medicare will cover the treatment costs ? |
jaysunb |
Mar-06-10 09:27 PM |
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Me too. . .cover my therapy sessions at the Bunny Ranch brothel outside Carson City, NV |
Suji to Seoul |
Mar-06-10 09:34 PM |
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No worry... |
onpatrol98 |
Mar-08-10 07:36 PM |
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Sonny you'll wish you had all that when you're 70! nt |
flamingdem |
Mar-06-10 09:32 PM |
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I've got 6 years to go |
jaysunb |
Mar-06-10 09:40 PM |
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Ernest Borgnine Talks About Masturbation (at 91). |
rug |
Mar-06-10 09:56 PM |
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Also known as male adolescence n/t |
Taitertots |
Mar-06-10 10:11 PM |
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I enjoy eating, does that make me a food addict |
Suji to Seoul |
Mar-06-10 09:21 PM |
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Do you indulge these activities to the extent they interfere with other aspect of your life? |
laughingliberal |
Mar-07-10 12:16 PM |
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Does it include masturbation? |
leftstreet |
Mar-06-10 09:23 PM |
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I must be really immature |
fujiyama |
Mar-09-10 12:56 AM |
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If Tiger Woods was to resurrect his career, he had to claim to have had an addiction. |
no_hypocrisy |
Mar-06-10 09:26 PM |
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Do you think that maybe, just maybe... |
varkam |
Mar-07-10 05:37 AM |
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Could be both. |
no_hypocrisy |
Mar-07-10 06:15 AM |
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No when it comes to celebrities behaving badly, the addiction or rehab ploy is a scam |
alarimer |
Mar-07-10 10:26 PM |
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'measuring rod' should not have been in this text! |
tnlefty |
Mar-06-10 09:29 PM |
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DAMMIT! You beat me to it. |
flvegan |
Mar-06-10 09:33 PM |
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Not nearly as bad as, Drill Baby, DRILL |
jaysunb |
Mar-06-10 09:36 PM |
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I kind of have my own personal measuring rod to determine if I'm having too much or too little sex. |
asdjrocky |
Mar-06-10 09:34 PM |
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I've got a measuring rod for you right here.... |
slutticus |
Mar-06-10 09:35 PM |
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I've got a measuring rod for you right here.... |
slutticus |
Mar-06-10 09:35 PM |
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according to wikipedia, he's wrong: |
unblock |
Mar-06-10 09:39 PM |
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Let's just stick with the physiological meaning, 'k? |
eridani |
Mar-06-10 09:42 PM |
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Of Course, There May Not be That Big a Gulf Between the Two |
On the Road |
Mar-06-10 10:42 PM |
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There is physical withdrawal from not shoplifiting? |
eridani |
Mar-07-10 02:28 AM |
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10 Surprising Health Benefits of Sex |
liberal N proud |
Mar-06-10 09:51 PM |
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Good article. It's a shame that American puritanism has attached so much |
Lorien |
Mar-06-10 10:04 PM |
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so can we be addicted to being healthy too? |
Supersedeas |
Mar-08-10 03:29 PM |
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Sex Addiction |
classysassy |
Mar-06-10 09:54 PM |
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Yeah, that's the big problem with classifying issues with things like sex and food as "addictions" |
Withywindle |
Mar-06-10 10:15 PM |
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There's a difference between wanting sex several times a day |
gkhouston |
Mar-06-10 10:22 PM |
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Is it really just a matter of how much money you spend? |
Withywindle |
Mar-06-10 11:57 PM |
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I think some might beg to differ. |
varkam |
Mar-07-10 05:10 AM |
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You're missing the compulsive to the point of destruction aspect of sex addiction |
gkhouston |
Mar-07-10 04:28 PM |
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"They don't even enjoy the sex anymore". this is what people are looking away from |
seabeyond |
Mar-07-10 04:45 PM |
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I think you missed the point if you look at it from a committed partnership view. |
1776Forever |
Mar-06-10 10:57 PM |
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A pretty good percentage of our population is NOT monogamous |
JCMach1 |
Mar-06-10 11:35 PM |
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Some are people are, and say they are. Some people aren't and say they are. |
Political Heretic |
Mar-06-10 11:52 PM |
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Is You or Is You Ain't ? |
704wipes |
Mar-07-10 12:12 AM |
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17-18% females screwin around, 20% men. lots of both gender not. |
seabeyond |
Mar-07-10 12:01 AM |
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Here's the problem written large in Statistics |
JCMach1 |
Mar-07-10 12:26 AM |
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Then DON"T GET MARRIED if your partners expectations are that you will be faithful. |
1776Forever |
Mar-07-10 11:15 AM |
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No such thing. |
proteus_lives |
Mar-06-10 11:39 PM |
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Heh! |
kimmerspixelated |
Mar-08-10 05:05 PM |
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couldn't agree more |
Whoknows44 |
Mar-06-10 11:43 PM |
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And, in the old days, alcoholics drank themselves to death instead of getting treatment. |
varkam |
Mar-07-10 04:49 AM |
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/facepalm Common People! Sex Addiction is not about having "too much sex" for fucks sake... |
Political Heretic |
Mar-06-10 11:47 PM |
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+1 |
varkam |
Mar-07-10 04:50 AM |
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well said. |
cali |
Mar-07-10 04:52 AM |
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Exactly |
Dorian Gray |
Mar-07-10 06:02 AM |
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And it seems to be 'sexual conquest' too, not just 'sex', at least in common usage |
muriel_volestrangler |
Mar-07-10 08:07 AM |
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I'm not going to bite on whether or not this should be considered a ligitmate condition. |
TheMadMonk |
Mar-07-10 04:57 AM |
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Mr. Lawrence's narrow interpretation of 'addiction' betrays his ignorance of the literature. |
varkam |
Mar-07-10 05:04 AM |
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+1 |
Kitty Herder |
Mar-09-10 08:47 AM |
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I've always laughed out loud at.. |
sendero |
Mar-07-10 08:12 AM |
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I wouldn't know about "sex addiction", but I do know about |
pipi_k |
Mar-07-10 11:08 AM |
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Now, now. You're messing up the narrative of those who denigrate anything they don't understand. nt |
laughingliberal |
Mar-07-10 12:08 PM |
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I've been there. |
Kitty Herder |
Mar-09-10 08:50 AM |
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i think the saddest about this op is the normal is the person with a major objective in life |
seabeyond |
Mar-07-10 11:20 AM |
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Dr. Drew is addicted to finding addictions. |
TexasObserver |
Mar-07-10 11:27 AM |
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Bingo ! |
jaysunb |
Mar-07-10 03:13 PM |
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But the meetings are GREAT places for picking up women! |
mitchum |
Mar-07-10 11:47 AM |
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There are certain simians that copulate many times a day with |
lumpy |
Mar-07-10 12:06 PM |
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very superficial and uneducated Counterpunch rant |
BlancheSplanchnik |
Mar-07-10 12:25 PM |
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delete |
jaysunb |
Mar-07-10 03:00 PM |
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I think he is intentionally misunderstanding and misrepresenting the addiction. |
LostInAnomie |
Mar-07-10 03:24 PM |
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Those with Kluver Bucy tend to have too much sex... |
NoodleyAppendage |
Mar-07-10 03:32 PM |
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Typical "radical" nonsense from counterpunch. ALSO a shitty appeal to nature |
anonymous171 |
Mar-07-10 04:48 PM |
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It is way more complicated than that |
treestar |
Mar-07-10 10:09 PM |
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I've been using the term "wealth addiction" |
guitar man |
Mar-08-10 04:50 PM |
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I think it is an excuse for shitty behavior. |
alarimer |
Mar-07-10 10:20 PM |
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A friend of mine -- |
Hell Hath No Fury |
Mar-08-10 12:47 PM |
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This sounds more like an |
jaysunb |
Mar-08-10 02:35 PM |
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From the outside looking in -- |
Hell Hath No Fury |
Mar-08-10 03:34 PM |
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Violence Addiction. |
Cetacea |
Mar-08-10 12:58 PM |
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Too much beer? No such thing. Too much food? No such thing... |
LanternWaste |
Mar-08-10 01:03 PM |
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Deleted message |
Name removed |
Mar-08-10 03:00 PM |
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"extreme feminists are people you wouldn't wanna fuck" . |
seabeyond |
Mar-08-10 04:05 PM |
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this kind of shit is welcome here |
noiretextatique |
Mar-08-10 04:17 PM |
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i do know the men that talk like this are the very men i also listen to saying they dont get it |
seabeyond |
Mar-08-10 04:39 PM |
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I get plenty, honey, |
SimonPhoenix |
Mar-08-10 09:01 PM |
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sure you do, big boy.... just keep telling us what a man you are. someone, somewhere |
seabeyond |
Mar-08-10 09:53 PM |
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Well, |
SimonPhoenix |
Mar-08-10 10:04 PM |
#137 |
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Hey you ! |
jaysunb |
Mar-08-10 07:14 PM |
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You're totally right |
SimonPhoenix |
Mar-08-10 04:20 PM |
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you know, those old men, that cant get it up anymore but it is the only thing they identify as being |
seabeyond |
Mar-08-10 04:38 PM |
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Whatever you say, Amarillo |
SimonPhoenix |
Mar-08-10 06:09 PM |
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in all your wisdom, do tell, what does amarillo have to do with anything? nt |
seabeyond |
Mar-08-10 07:42 PM |
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It means don't ever accuse me of talking big without proof |
SimonPhoenix |
Mar-08-10 08:53 PM |
#129 |
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so amarillo means that to you? you have proof all feminists are unfuckable? |
seabeyond |
Mar-08-10 09:51 PM |
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What proof, pray tell, would you like? |
SimonPhoenix |
Mar-08-10 10:08 PM |
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it was a stupid sexist comment that is old and tired made by old and tired men.... par to the racist |
seabeyond |
Mar-09-10 06:40 AM |
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You're totally right |
SimonPhoenix |
Mar-09-10 12:41 PM |
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size 6 womens boot firmly planted on your windpipe. grow up. nt |
seabeyond |
Mar-08-10 10:01 PM |
#136 |
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Under some, but not all conditions. |
LanternWaste |
Mar-08-10 06:30 PM |
#122 |
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Okay |
SimonPhoenix |
Mar-08-10 09:28 PM |
#132 |
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And precisely what do you base this conjecture off of? |
LanternWaste |
Mar-09-10 05:45 PM |
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The idea of sex addiction seems to have been misrepresented... |
MellowDem |
Mar-08-10 03:14 PM |
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If he (Tiger) were single |
jaysunb |
Mar-08-10 06:23 PM |
#121 |
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Very true.... nt |
MellowDem |
Mar-08-10 07:37 PM |
#126 |
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Sex can absolutely be an addiction. |
dave29 |
Mar-08-10 07:35 PM |
#124 |
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Only today Micket Rourke boasts of doing 14 girls in one night...(yowser! |
Imagevision |
Mar-08-10 09:00 PM |
#130 |
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Well, I'd love to have sex every day if I could, |
liberalhistorian |
Mar-08-10 09:57 PM |
#135 |
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