Sinus gremlins talk
There are some people in this world who very much enjoy being sick. They revel in it, and take full advantage of every opportunity to retreat to bed. At the ominous appearance of a single sneeze they will declare any physical exertion entirely impossible and demand that chicken soup be delivered to them in mass quantities.
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Random Rants
Students speak out about what’s on their minds in 142 words, and you’re invited! If you have a random rant, email it to me at anderseb@grinnell.edu. After all, complaining in a public forum is always more fun than doing it alone.
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Masturbation: His and Hers.
The monograms on towels are usually similar but slightly different - same embroidered font, different letters. So too are male and female masturbation habits and needs, despite the act being so fundamentally human (and chimpanzee). Masturbation can be simply defined as stimulating nerve-rich areas of the body until an orgasm-threshold is crossed. Hands-on groin action alone, however, is often not enough. Arousal levels are boosted by using other senses: non-genital touch (the inside of the elbow, the curve of the waist), vision of self (mirrors) or another (the pornography industry), pleasing sounds (a human voice crying out in similar sexual rapture) and meaningful or memory-linked smells and tastes (leather, human skin, vanilla). It is often enhanced by fantasy - either driven by an external suggestion (back to porn or maybe that great erotica story) or created in one’s mind. The fantasies in ones head can be primarily image-based (beautiful woman straddling you), situationally-based (five guys on a desert island), emotionally based (he finally gets to consummate his desire for me, after all this time) or some combination. Among both sexes, masturbation is far easier when one is in a relaxed state or low-stress private place (in the shower or alone in your room). Relaxation is not absolutely necessary and sometimes less fun since the eustress of “danger” (like being discovered by your coworkers) can add into the mix of sensations.
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Token, not tokin’, conservative
When I first came to Grinnell and they asked me to fill out a form for housing, I put down that I wanted to live with someone who does not do substances. Unlike most people who have that written on their housing forms, it was my idea and not my parents’. At that point in my life, I would not have been happy to be living with a hard partier and I stand by that choice as a good one.
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