Amuse and Confuse

It’s pretty telling — and revealing of our evolutionary and cultural history — how very much time and effort people and groups spend attempting to police who should be allowed to have sex with whom.

Mostly, I just stand back and observe, amused and confused. Of course no one admits that’s what they are doing. But it is what you’re all doing.

TSP

The other day, I saw a porn ad for the “tightest sorority pussy exposed.”

Which caused me to wonder, what is the verification and validation procedure for the tightest sorority pussy? What’s the confidence interval and sample size? Was the study preregistered? Also, a person can be in a sorority, but can a pussy?

I have questions.

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