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There was something on MSNBC a little while ago about a bunch of people who experimented (are experimenting?) with spending a month as though they each own only six items of clothing. Not in an attempt to achieve empathy with people who actually own only six items of clothing, like the thirty-hour famine the local Catholic church has the confirmation kids do. In an attempt to prove that excessive shopping is curable, because excessive shopping is apparently based on the assumption that other people notice your clothes and this experiment disproves that assumption.

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Poll #3920 latest from the sexuality course

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 7

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Deviance in sexual behaviors is defined in your text as all of the following EXCEPT

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involving pain or humiliation
0 (0.0%)

going against the religious or moral beliefs of a culture
4 (66.7%)

statistically infrequent
2 (33.3%)

involving a persistent preference for nongenital sexual outlets
0 (0.0%)

Ticky!

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rainbow
4 (57.1%)

night
3 (42.9%)

mint chocolate chip
6 (85.7%)

snow
2 (28.6%)

I checked the book. All four of those are defined as deviant. I put 'statistically infrequent', because by that measure vanilla sex eight times a week would be deviant, but I'm curious what y'all think.

I'm also curious why the book doesn't give the common names for half the stuff it mentions in this chapter. I'd never heard the terms urophilia or hypoxyphilia before. They mean watersports and breathplay.

Also I fucking HATE fucking Blackboard. And fucking dial-up. The discussion boards on Blackboard don't let me see more than one post at a time, and the test I'm in the process of taking loads no more than one question at a time and prohibits backtracking. Both of these take quite long enough to load on high-speed. And because the dial-up randomly disconnected while I was on seventy-two and when I reloaded the test it put me on thirty-something (proof), I am now clicking 'next question', waiting a few seconds for the 'This assessment prohibits backtracking' page to load, clicking OK, waiting twenty to thirty seconds for the next question to load, clicking 'next question', waiting a few seconds for the 'This assessment prohibits backtracking' page to load, clicking OK, waiting twenty to thirty seconds for the next question to load...did I mention this is a timed test? I've got less than ten minutes on the timer and I'm still on question fifty-three.

Emailed professor re above. Hello, I am away from campus till Tuesday July,27th. I will respond to any emails that come in during my absence on my return. Argh.

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So about Leverage. Last week Eliot said he couldn't afford to have his face out there where it might be recognized, due to events preceding last season.

Didn't last season end with Eliot as a baseball star?