Author: dave-o

Urologist reporting up to 400% increase in vasectomies since Roe decision

Washington Post: Men rush to get vasectomies after Roe ruling

Urologist are reporting up to a 400% increase in vasectomy inquiries and scheduling since the repeal of Roe last week. Some young men—a group not known for its forwarding planning—are specifically citing concerns that Justice Thomas will seek to use this repeal as a jumping off point to limit access to birth control (based on Thomas’ concurring opinion). Absolutely astounding. 

Incidentally, if you’re considering a vasectomy: I got one after our second kid (about 9 years ago). Have never had any issues or complications since. It’s ambulatory surgery, they don’t put you under, and in my case they had one matronly middle-aged nurse there who’s entire job was, apparently, to hold my hand and be fucking hilarious. It was literally less unpleasant than any single dental cleaning I’ve gotten in the last ten years. I spent the weekend icing my nuts, and was fine.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️Recommended; would snip again.

I LOVE this web comic! 👨🏾‍🦲

“Your Black Friend” by Ben Passmore

This is a situation where I want to grab frame or two to put here, to entice you to click through and read the whole thing. But at the same time, I don’t wanna grab a full frame, b/c every frame of it—and the way the entire thing locks together—is So. Damn. Perfect, and such a perfect presentation of the thing it’s trying to talk about.

I love it. There’s nothing left to say. It’s 100% perfect for me. It is MAUS for this moment.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s claim that “the leading cause of death among children is a firearm” is actually MUCH MORE upsetting than you think

Yes, “the leading cause of death among children is a firearm” is an extremely upsetting sentence—and also, a sadly accurate one (given that you define children as “humans between the ages of 1 and 19”; infants in their first year die from lots of stuff that doesn’t kill you after your first year; if you include them in this number, then it skews toward premature birth, birth defects, and SIDS).

But, the truly upsetting part is buried in this chart (shown below with a big dumb pink circle to emphasis the “Mechanisms” section), which was an addendum to the original source Schumer’s staff cited. 

Guns are the leading cause of death among children, and most of those deaths are murder.

Population wide, gun deaths are usually ~66% suicide and ~33% homicide. Among children, that’s now basically flipped.

In other words, in America today most gun deaths are suicide, and most adults will die of something else (probably disease). But for kids in America, the leading cause of death is guns, and most of those gun deaths are murders.

Stay classy, Ancient Rome!

Please note that the cock-lion’s “tail” is itself another phallus. *fingertip kiss* Magnifique!

Anyway, the next time you hear someone sounding off about how hopelessly depraved and perverted the present is, just remember this 2,000-year-old ding-a-ling and laugh in their prudish faces.

Bronze tintinabulum hung with small bells to function as a wind chime. It is decorated with a winged lion-phallus which was believed to provide magical protection against evil and to bring good luck to the household. Date 1st-Century
“Bronze tintinabulum hung with small bells to function as a wind chime. It is decorated with a winged lion-phallus which was believed to provide magical protection against evil and to bring good luck to the household. (Date 1st-Century)” source