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I would very much like to see these reports as I have yet to see a satisfactory (hell, ANY) explanation of the mechanism of action in videogames that triggers addictive behavior. People buy DVD rewinders and inject lethal poison into their faces to look pretty. What people buy and sell are...

I accept fully that someone can become psychologically dependent on something to the point where it becomes a serious problem, including videogames. My basic assertions are: 1. Psychological dependence and addiction are different things 2. Videogames are not inherently more or less prone to...

I have a problem with the idea of "video game addiction" for a couple of reasons. First, it's often diagnosed by people with less than zero psych training and who rarely play games themselves. The criteria are set by non-gamers and the label is virtually impossible to get rid of because...

From my experience, a plurality of the people who actually identify as "polyamorous" today are 35 years of age and higher. They're either direct participants or products of a lot of the "free love" philosophy of the 60's and 70's and when the term "polyamory" came along they picked it up to...

He doesn't sound terribly open-minded. That sort of clashes with the picture you paint in the introductory paragraph. There really is no gentle way to put it. I mean I suppose you can make it creative and play a game of Charades or 20 Questions but that's not really going to cushion the...

I would second this. I've found a lot more people my age who are functionally poly but just dont call it that. The vast majority of the people I've found who declare themselves to be "polyamorous" are of a greater vintage than I.

I cant exactly speak from experience (my experience with being a woman in her 40's is VERY limited) but I do know that changes in libido can be linked to a couple of different factors. First, how happy you are. If you're depressed or stressed, sex generally seems less appealing. You may still...

This is pretty much it. When you're on the outside already, the other people sharing that space with you suddenly dont seem as strange.

And that's the kind of influence that we need that will help to diminish and eventually eliminate using that kind of language, I applaud it fully. There's a difference between accepting and condoning. I dislike rain. Its cold, its wet, it makes travel difficult. I dont condone rain but I know...

Hmm, hope I'm not to sure I can provide, but some form of resolution, why not? Wait. That's it. That's the plan. Wait. We have to look at the parts of the problem we can reasonably expect to effect and change. Aggressive, dickish behavior has been around since time was only now we cant...

When you publically denounce someone else in the way Bereznak did for the reasons she presents, I find it difficult to classify it as anything else. What would the motivation be for attempting to publically humiliate a guy who, according to her own story, made the mistake of choosing an odd...

I've seen that article before and I want to discuss it but I dont want to derail this thread, I'll open a new thread for it. http://www.polyamory.com/forum/showthread.php?p=176024#post176024

I've seen that article before and while I do agree with most of the major points, I think it misses a couple of important things. First, THIS is the article that spawned the one you linked to. Its character assassination, pure and simple. It may not have been intended that way but that's how it...

No piercings (not really my thing) but I do have tattoos. Only a couple so far but MANY more are planned pending funding. I have a blue crescent moon on my right shoulder with a "T" in it. I got it for an ex (no, I dont regret it nor do I plan on covering it). Her name was Theresa, blue was her...

Ohhh gods I'd almost completely forgotten about Gatsby. I'll have to change my answer; Great Gatsby was unequivocally the worst book we read. It had zero relevance to any person in class reading it, it was not interesting, it was not informative, it was not funny, and it was as boring as a...

Catcher in the Rye would have to be the worst just for being bad. Holden is a whiny little bastard who complains about everything and that's basically the entire book. I want to just grab him by the scruff of the neck and throw him into Palestine or Syria. I ended up hating Shakespeare but I...

I'm glad someone enjoys him. After having Romeo and Juliet read to us in Ye Olde Timey script with the teacher pausing every two words to explain the modern equivalent to the Ye Olde Timey word she had just read should be put in the fucking Geneva Convention under "crimes against humanity." I...

Normally I dont send on stuff I read, especially Cracked. They're funny and all but any good information is usually drowned out by the bad. From someone who had to read Lord of the Flies, Catcher in the Rye, and developed a life-long hatred of Shakespeare, I feel like this one is an exception...

I'm not accusing you of anything at all and understand I'm speaking entirely for myself (though others may agree), but again understand that you're coming onto a forum and asking about ways to anonymously log onto that forum. I have no idea why you're asking for that information. You could...

I mean if you really feel like you want to do this, its your system though I cant profess to understand the reasoning. I'm a little more cautious than others may be on account that you're asking questions about how to effectively use anonymity software to get onto a forum. That sends up no...