The BFG of AGI

You hear it sometimes online, that some people don't want to use (external) condoms bc it makes the experience worse for them. Is that true? I guess I could see it. If there's a barrier and a little air bubble at the top, it probably makes for less friction.

I personally don't have a penis so I wouldn't know how they feel. You just always hear about sleezy guys trying to get out of wearing condoms, but maybe if it's worse for them, we shouldn't judge too hard? Maybe? Idk.

Hi! (For anyone wondering, this ask is from a bit ago and I forgot it in the queue.)

Some people don't like using condoms, external or not. Most studies on condoms, in that respect, have seemed to point towards the fact it really doesn't impair sensation but it depends on the person and the condoms, obviously. Generally though, it's just a personal preference thing.

But condoms in general are not "worse" for guys or people with penises. They're often made explicitly to preserve friction and maximize pleasure and comfort for the people wearing them, actually.

But even if it were, the issue is not "guys not enjoying/complaining about wearing condoms"; the issue is specifically people, generally cis men, putting their pleasure above someone else's consent and bodily autonomy and pushing specifically people who can get pregnant to have sex with them without condoms whether they want to or not.

It's actually such a large issue of cis men in particular believing they're owed the right to that extra pleasure or "right" not to wear a condom that there's a specific term for a type of rape where they promise someone to wear a condom and then take it off right before/during sex, which most frequently happens to people assumed to be capable of getting pregnant.

(It's stealthing, for anyone wondering.)

The issue is entitlement and coercion, as well as general misogyny. Not condoms.

no getting up. no looking at the flag.

The administrators of that extremely early city had to keep track of lots of things, and doing this by memory alone was a nightmare. These spreadsheets were devised as a solution to that as an evolution of an earlier system that used clay tokens and balls.

Societies had oral storytelling traditions that had functioned without writing for millennia. They didn't need to write stories down, they had a very good system in place.

Then with semi-settled existence and early agriculture in came the need to administrate more resources than you carry. Inventories are much harder to remember than stories, and change more often. Writing them down makes much more sense.

so there's this old cartoonist i like, WK Haselden right? bit of a born curmudgeon, if you've ever seen those old vintage comics that are like "damn these modern women things used to be better in the 80s! the 1880s that is!!!" thats usually a haselden, maud of the 80s vs gladys of today etc

im forever FASCINATED at all the slice o life satire cartoons he does bc there's like, the regular shit to be grumpy (flappers driving cars, ladies hats are too big etc) about but there's also comics of fads that i could not BEGIN to fathom what it woulda been like to live through them through the eyes of this one dude like

?? was there a live meat/game meat trend in 1906??

this one's captioned "bull fighting up to date" like ????? was there a safety craze amongst bullfighters in '06???

i... i guess this one's mocking vaudeville??? like variety acts where you do a bunch of wild bullshit whilst playing an instrument perhaps?? tf was up in 1921??

man i didnt realize ping pong was such a thing of contention in..... 1922??

what the fuck was happening with elopement this year:

bitch you live like this??? 1915 edition. i do like that egg fellow in the corner though

man can't believe we've been making the pride and prejudice and zombies joke this whole time, this one's called "why not a crook drama harlequinade"

yknow you're right they SHOULD breed horses like harvestmen what were we thinking. not sure whats happening with that milk diet tho.