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Yes, it is all right to skip a period now and again, but it is not healthy to continue skipping periods for several months in a row. I have asked my doctor about this before and she told me that skipping periods frequently causes osteoporosis later on in life.

Though I'm sure they were smart enough to know that smothering their offspring was not a good thing. If this is still prevalent after thousands of generations, how did people become interested in supermodels? How did we go through the flapper stage (where flat-chested, small-hipped women were popular)? And how come many are now interested in having a size 2 woman with huge breasts, hips and butt when it is near impossible for them to maintain such a tiny waist and yet store so much fat around the top and bottom? In addition hip size has much more to do with attraction and breeding than breast size, which is probably why pear-shaped women are the most common today. Guess which body shape is the rarest among women? The hourglass.

You're right; along with all these huge-breasted Playboy-type women you also get plenty of slim, small-breasted actresses and models accross the media. This isn't true because small breasts produce just as much milk for babies as big breasts. Also, many mothers were quizzed on breastfeeding and they found that it is easier to feed a baby with small to medium sized breasts rather than large ones due to the danger of accidentally suffocating the baby.

Personally I think that when you love someone you will do things for them because you love them and not just because you are expecting them to do something in return. When my boyfriend is not feeling well I will do more than my fair share of work and cater for him, but I don't keep track of how many times I do that and then calculate that he owes me this much in return. When he asks, "Honey, will you please massage my shoulders for me? They've been hurting me all day." I don't say, "Sure, but it's going to cost you $30, three hugs and you cooking dinner alone tonight." If you would say such a thing, then I think your girlfriend is right. However, if you are always helping out when she's feeling bad and she never does the same for you I would start thinking about having a talk. A relationship isn't a one-way street; both partners need to work at it.

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta Jones, yet. Don't they have a 20 year age gap between them?

I didn't find Elektra's post insulting and I am a virgin who has waited for the right man to come along. All I saw was her saying that there are virgins who don't respect themselves and non-virgins who do, i.e. virginity has nothing to do with somebody's value as a human being and whether a person respects themselves or not. She was not, in any way, calling all virgins "freaks" or saying that they are abnormal.

Yea, same here! I guess my techniques must be pretty good to have such an effect when people are only reading about them.

I agree with Mythical Suicide; you can't pinpoint a particular age because everyone matures at different rates. As for myself, I don't think I really knew what love was until I turned 19. When I was 14 I thought I was in love, but it was just a crush. When I was 16 I thought I was in love, but it was just infatuation since I didn't really know that guy, either; I was in love with the idea of what I thought he would be like.

I have heard the opposite; that wearing bras is not as healthy as being braless. I read a study on it before, but I cannot find it at the moment. I will keep looking. Also, this same study showed that wearing a bra does absolutely nothing to prevent sagging even if you began wearing a bra the moment you grew AAAs. Found the book relating to the study on Amazon: link removed More links: link removed link removed

I get called both cute and sexy, though mostly cute because I'm tiny. I don't really mind as I would rather be called cute than ugly.

Hi there. I posted about this a while ago since there are lots of women who worry that their vulva looks weird. Here is the link: I hope it helps.

Ailec, don't worry; I'm 20 and still a virgin. I have problems that are preventing me from being able to have sex, but I cannot see a professional about it.

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LOL I love the way you phrased that. How can they tell? A C cup on an average height woman probably looks like a C cup, but the same C cups on a 5'10" woman can easily look like A cups and on a 5'0" woman they can easily look like DD cups. And that is before even discussing the weight of the woman; DDs on a very obese woman can look tiny in proportion to the woman herself, whereas on a very slim woman they can look enormous. I just don't believe that these guys can know every woman's bra size in one glance, let alone control their attraction to a woman based upon her bra size.

If Tesseract is right, why did you not say this yourself when I said that statement was condescending? Why did you feel the need to defend your statement by telling us about how cruel your mum has been to you? You could have simply said you did not mean for it to sound that way and tell us what Tesseract has just explained for us.

Your mum sounds pretty cruel... I hope you do not want to make people cry in the same way she made you cry about spots. Also, popping is not always bad. At beauty salons and spas they steam your face and pop them in a certain way so that it does not leave a scar, though you will walk out with a bright red face and not be able to go in the sun for several days. I have had scarring (discolouration) from plenty of spots that I never even touched and then from some I have touched it does not leave a mark. I think it is pretty random as to whether you get scars or not, though if you pop them in a bad way it can increase the risk.

Well, that is quite shallow and condescending towards people suffering from acne. It is not their fault. I had quite a lot of spots and still suffer from one or two bad ones that pop up every now and then. I tried hundreds of different products and visited doctors about it and nothing helped. Starting facial treatment as soon as a spot pops up does not always prevent it.

I agree with the article. I believe that everyone has multiple soul mates and that they won't just be partners; they will also be close friends.

joe45 - I am 20 years old and I am still a virgin. I wear short skirts, tight tops and high-heeled sandals on occasion. I had my first kiss with my first ever boyfriend about a month before my 20th birthday. I am also half Chinese. You can't judge people by what they wear one day or by their race. I also wanted to say that even though your comment about Asian girls is somewhat racist and is a generalisation, there is some truth to it. People living under extremely strict parents and also in very restrictive societies are under more risk of becoming "rebels"; they are much more likely to become promiscuous. Girls that come from very strict religious families (and other similar situations) can also become extremely promiscuous. It has been shown in studies that families where the parents are less strict and actually sit down and talk to their children like adults have more well-behaved children than those who are always screaming, "NO! NO! NO! THIS IS WRONG BECAUSE OF GOD/CULTURE/TRADITION, YOU SHOULD ALWAYS DO WHAT I/THEY SAY!"

I think you could be over-analysing, though I can't be sure. He might just be a very indecisive person and so he doesn't want to set up the date and be forced to decide where it is going to be. Perhaps he doesn't want you to feel like he is crowding you by asking you to be with him a lot of the time and so he leaves that up to you. As for not trying to kiss you or hold your hand; maybe he is worried you might think he is moving too fast? There are some girls who like things to move very slowly and perhaps he is playing it safe with you even though you're not the same as them?

I concur: standardised tests and essay questions cannot measure a person's intelligence. Also, many people can pass these just through memorising and not really learning so that they know these things. Once they've passed the test they forget, whereas things they know will stay with them forever whether they have a test to pass, or not.

I know both guys that are drawn to intelligent women and those that are repelled. My own boyfriend loves the fact that I am intelligent, but at the same time he dislikes feeling stupid next to me in certain areas. For example, the English language, despite that not even being his first language (maybe not even his second) and having better spelling, grammar and punctuation skills than the majority of native Britons I have met. I don't understand why he is so sad about it when I don't feel too bothered by the fact he is a Mathematical genius whereas I am not so good in that area.

Read my post again. I did not say she cannot express her opinion; I said she cannot force it onto other people.

You know Vida's butt is actually covered in cellulite? They always airbrush that off. It is very difficult for a woman to maintain a tiny waist yet gain a lot of fat in her butt, breasts and thighs. Even if she does manage to achieve this it is extremely difficult for her to get this kind of body without ending up covered in stretchmarks and cellulite. There was a study conducted on over 6,000 women and they discovered that the majority of women are rectangular-shaped. The next largest group were pear-shaped, then apple-shaped and the rarest of all shapes was the hourglass shape. Now, if the vast majority of women today are born either rectangular-, pear- or apple-shaped it is near impossible for them to achieve this hourglass figure with thick thighs, big butt and huge boobs to go with it: - If you're born rectangular the only option you have is boob and butt implants and even then you are only going to change yourself to apple-shaped because there's nothing you can do to widen your hips to be in proportion with your bust. The only other thing I can think of is walking around with a corset to shove all your organs up into your ribcage for the sole purpose of achieving a thinner waist for our superficial society. - If you're born pear-shaped the only option for you is to get a boob job. Even then, if your hips are a lot larger than your bust you're simply going to end up getting such huge boobs you can't even see your tiny waist and so you just look fat and get crippling back aches 24/7. - If you're born apple-shaped you can't do anything because there is no operation to increase the width of your hips. You could probably take your chances and get a boob reduction to match your hips, but then you'd probably end up classified as rectangular. But oh, wait! No-one can get surgery because fake boobs and butts are disgusting. So, either way; you lose. You're not an hourglass? You're disgusting. You got surgery to become an hourglass? You're still disgusting. My point is that all these ridiculous superficial standards of society are impossible for the vast majority of women to achieve. Don't try to be the best of what society wants you to be, be the best that you can be for yourself.

I agree, but I think it is best kept to themselves rather than forced upon everyone else around them as they say, "You must believe what I believe else you're going to hell!" It is rather childish if you ask me. Reminds me of my brother when he was a toddler; if I didn't like a TV show he liked he would throw a tantrum saying I am not allowed to dislike it simply because he likes it. I think it is equally immature to say that people are going to hell because they don't believe what you believe in, especially when said people have entirely different beliefs. I don't shout to all the Christians that they are going to hell because they are Christian.