Comments on: Even 94 year-olds are sexy sex sex people.

Even 94 year-olds are sexy sex sex people.

miss lynnster — Wed, 09 May 2007 14:37:24 -0800

Sex Education media has been around since the days of silent films. Seems most everyone can use a bit of guidance when it comes to the appropriate handling of their lustful urges... your geriatric, dementia-ridden parents, so ldi ers, B o y s, Gi rls, couples, te ens, Ch ri st ia ns, and yes, trainables. On a less serious note, the topic of Sex Ed as addressed by: Monty Python, Conan O'Brien, fireside chats, Amy Sedaris, MAD TV, Fry & Laurie, Weeds, Al i G and the Simpsons, Family Guy, and some Florida trailer park slut on youtube. Note: this fpp will not play well in Bangalore. NSFW. Duh. (Previ ously.)

By: po

po — Wed, 09 May 2007 14:49:12 -0800

why, oh why, oh why did I click the "fireside chats" link first?

By: tristeza

tristeza — Wed, 09 May 2007 15:23:08 -0800

The Trainables is, sadly, one of my favorite web finds ever. I am such a bastard.

By: hypocritical ross

hypocritical ross — Wed, 09 May 2007 15:34:21 -0800

For some reason I went right for the trainables link. Reminded me of this. Now excuse me while I go blow my brains out.

By: everichon

everichon — Wed, 09 May 2007 15:36:13 -0800

Good post! I love this kind of stuff.

By: milestogo

milestogo — Wed, 09 May 2007 15:36:44 -0800

I have never seen a more awkward interview on Conan. Ray Ramano had my sympathies.

By: ORthey

ORthey — Wed, 09 May 2007 15:38:51 -0800

First I thought that was some pun on BANG-alore. I was gonna say, probably not so popular in Djibouti or Bangkok either. Um... yeah.

By: tkchrist

tkchrist — Wed, 09 May 2007 15:39:40 -0800

"Thompson! What about a kiss. A simple kiss, boy. No need to go stampeding straight for the clitoris... And tonguing is sure a way to monitor how the juices are flowing. " Thank you Mr. Cleese. You have no idea how well those words have served me.

By: timsteil

timsteil — Wed, 09 May 2007 15:43:09 -0800

is there a point where making every letter of a word a different link stops being clever and just becomes annoying? I mean, neat stuff and all...especially the Fry and Laurie bit, but come on ...enough already.

By: ORthey

ORthey — Wed, 09 May 2007 15:45:07 -0800

Actually, timsteil, if you pass your cursor over those words rapidly back and forth, it becomes beautifully hypnotic.

By: miss lynnster

miss lynnster — Wed, 09 May 2007 15:50:38 -0800

Huh. Ok, well I generally do that mostly to make it easier & more convenient for everyone by including one link for each part of a multiple part video. If that bothers people & you'd rather see fewer links, next time I'll just link the first part only and you guys can be on your own to find the rest of whatever comes after it. Less work for me that way, so no skin off my back. You guys just tell me what you'd prefer.

By: ORthey

ORthey — Wed, 09 May 2007 15:51:53 -0800

(miss lynnster, I like all the links).

By: miss lynnster

miss lynnster — Wed, 09 May 2007 15:53:00 -0800

For example, on the "Christian" part, The first link is the WMFU page, and the next 4 are direct links to the individual audio files. I could've just linked to the first link & let you guys do the work yourselves if you'd prefer.

By: timsteil

timsteil — Wed, 09 May 2007 15:57:42 -0800

miss lyn.... no offence meant, and hopefully none taken... I'm just thinking there is usually a main and salient point to all posts on the blue, and when you have to wade through a bunch of stuff to get to it....it can be some combination of frustrating and time-consuming. I seem to be in the minority with that opinion, and thats fine. But when I'm up to 20 different links by the third line I tend to forget why I was interested in it in the first place. just my .02 move along....nothing to see here OK...the rest of you....I said move along right?

By: miss lynnster

miss lynnster — Wed, 09 May 2007 16:01:12 -0800

I wasn't offended, I was being serious. If people want fewer links, I can do it. I was asking genuinely wanting to know if there's a preference.

By: snsranch

snsranch — Wed, 09 May 2007 16:04:11 -0800

Ah, no problemo, miss lynnster! Your post is perfect in every way. (But now I might be sick from too many awful childhood memories.) Metafilter: check your anus for demons.

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Wed, 09 May 2007 16:08:15 -0800

"stops being clever and just becomes annoying... ...come on ...enough already." Gee, a ittle harsh, there timsteil, no? Well, ain't nobody forcing you to click on links, now, are they? "You guys just tell me what you'd prefer." Well, since you're soliciting opinions miss lynnster, may I suggest that when putting together posts that are this chock full'o'links, you use mouseovers?

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Wed, 09 May 2007 16:10:06 -0800

Hmm, should've previewed. Missed your 'move along' there timsteil, and stood around gawking instead!

By: miss lynnster

miss lynnster — Wed, 09 May 2007 16:13:34 -0800

Can't believe I forgot this!

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Wed, 09 May 2007 16:14:30 -0800

I was asking genuinely wanting to know if there's a preference. Of course, preferences will vary widely. There's no way to reach some golden consensus on a question like "how many links?" Just follow your heart! Go with your dream! Baby let your mind roll on!

By: elpapacito

elpapacito — Wed, 09 May 2007 16:18:10 -0800

Oh noes, they did it again ! That's their 17th kid. Meet the The Duggars a nice family with rejects contraception entirely , because every sperm is sacred !

By: timsteil

timsteil — Wed, 09 May 2007 16:18:45 -0800

didnt mean to be harsh, and hopefully no one took it that way...just mentioning a personal peeve about some posts I've seen some folks pretty much e-burned at the stake for posting something that wasn;t "worthy" of MeFi, or they didn't realize someone posted something similar in 2000, and got roasted as well. I don't really get that part of it, but a community is just that, and I'm glad to be able to read this stuff every day. Personally...this site would probably work best for me if there was a huge 'HEY DUMBASS....YOU MIGHT BE INTERESTED IN THIS" tag, but I take the wheat and the chaff with the rest of us. Frankly...if you could just come over, print it out, and wake me up when you're done mowing the lawn...that would be pretty sweet too. Peace to the neighborhood

By: everichon

everichon — Wed, 09 May 2007 16:50:00 -0800

That Duggars link convinces me that my secular humanist non-child-having demographic is on its way out, just by dint of numbers. Zoinks!

By: pax digita

pax digita — Wed, 09 May 2007 17:46:52 -0800

(Beautifully done post, miss l. No wacky animals to be found anywhere in this one...thank $DEITY...) I'd seen the Anne Meara-narrated one about awareness of sex issues for older folks suffering from dementia, and it was amusing, shocking and saddening by turns -- especially the husband who had to be discouraged from hitting on his wife now that she no longer quite recognized him as his partner. It left me wondering about subtext -- what sort of long-term issues they might've had when they were still together in their home; whether she'd been a happy and fulfilled participant or merely a dutiful spouse who, psyche bared, now wasn't seeing in him whatever she might've seen when they were a much younger couple. I'm glad my own 'rents, in the last years of their shared decline, apparently didn't seem suffer from any issues in that department (but then, dementia wasn't a problem for them either). Funny story: Shortly after Mom found out she was going to undergo aggressive radiotherapy that would cost her her hair, one afternoon she eagerly showed me the wig catalogue she'd recently gotten in the mail. "They have a threefer deal! This is perfect. I'll get one that looks like my original hair" -- nicely iron-gray frosting the auburn/brown in the short style she favored in those last months; rapidly turning pages, "a Dolly Parton sort of long blonde one -- I've always wanted to try being a blonde -- and this" -- she flipped to a page she'd paper-clipped, showing me a wonderful, long, dark-red number in a sort of Maureen O'Hara kind of cut -- "especially for your father," she concluded with a private smirk. (I was one of six sibs.)

By: mr_crash_davis

mr_crash_davis — Wed, 09 May 2007 18:05:17 -0800

My favorite has always been Your Testicles and You, from Johnny Dangerously.

By: mauglir

mauglir — Wed, 09 May 2007 18:25:03 -0800

Wow, that silent film had a lot of information to digest, but I did learn an awful lot! This is what I learned:

Women are for marriage and making babies
Babies are made when something from a man meets with something from a woman, and it takes nine months
Masturbation is selfish, childish, and stupid
Sexually transmitted diseases are always the man's fault
Comfortable shoes are very important
Family trees are huge and boring
The syphilis germ is spiral shaped
The secrets to a long and happy life are: fresh air, locomotives, and NO SEXUAL STIMULUS OF ANY KIND

By: Dizzy

Dizzy — Wed, 09 May 2007 18:43:31 -0800

Comfortable shoes ARE very important. Otherwise my winkie gets all red.

By: champthom

champthom — Wed, 09 May 2007 19:01:43 -0800

And here's a sex ed (well, more like dating how-to) MST3K style

By: UbuRoivas

UbuRoivas — Wed, 09 May 2007 19:06:35 -0800

Less work for me that way, so no skin off my back. You guys just tell me what you'd prefer. If taking skin off your back is the issue, miss lynnster, my preference would be for it to be on your carpet, not mine. You can do as much or as little work as you like.

By: miss lynnster

miss lynnster — Wed, 09 May 2007 19:10:17 -0800

Uhhhh... whaaaa?

By: dilettante

dilettante — Wed, 09 May 2007 19:10:20 -0800

# The secrets to a long ~~and happy~~ life are: fresh air, locomotives, and NO SEXUAL STIMULUS OF ANY KIND Fixed that for you. Should I really be looking forward to shriveling away to a cricket?

By: Dizzy

Dizzy — Wed, 09 May 2007 19:13:13 -0800

Must be some kind of Aussie rhyming slang. Came for the post; stayed for the format.

By: UbuRoivas

UbuRoivas — Wed, 09 May 2007 19:13:30 -0800

Uhhhh... whaaaa? (forgive me. it's just all these sexy sex sex links. gotta find me a bromo. or a cold shower)

By: miss lynnster

miss lynnster — Wed, 09 May 2007 19:20:22 -0800

Umm, is it warm in here?

By: cgc373

cgc373 — Wed, 09 May 2007 19:21:58 -0800

No way, miss lynnster. It's hot!

By: UbuRoivas

UbuRoivas — Wed, 09 May 2007 19:22:09 -0800

Why yes, it is. That's why I'm not wearing any clothes.

By: Dizzy

Dizzy — Wed, 09 May 2007 19:26:24 -0800

Told you it was rhyming slang!

By: mr_crash_davis

mr_crash_davis — Wed, 09 May 2007 19:26:27 -0800

Like that's unusual.

By: Dizzy

Dizzy — Wed, 09 May 2007 19:27:23 -0800

But he's posting from the City Library.

By: UbuRoivas

UbuRoivas — Wed, 09 May 2007 19:35:47 -0800

The librarians here run a strict & disciplined shop. Clothes off at the door, get strapped to your chair. Come to post, be treated like a doormat.

By: maxwelton

maxwelton — Wed, 09 May 2007 20:11:39 -0800

There are some hints for dealing with puberty in Harry Potter as well.

By: mds35

mds35 — Wed, 09 May 2007 20:58:56 -0800

That was cool. Also, the first film has a clip of CU's South Field at about 11:45 (athlete).

By: mds35

mds35 — Wed, 09 May 2007 20:59:23 -0800

I love my alma mater. So sue me.

By: Rhomboid

Rhomboid — Wed, 09 May 2007 21:37:52 -0800

Re: linking to each part of a series, I don't like the single-letter business either. Why not just make a playlist and link to that? This post was worth it solely for the Amy Sedaris bit.

By: Rhomboid

Rhomboid — Wed, 09 May 2007 21:40:39 -0800

And by solely I don't mean that was the only worthy part, I mean that link alone would have been an OK post by me. (Of course the others are good too.)

By: dhruva

dhruva — Wed, 09 May 2007 21:54:58 -0800

I suppose this as good a place as any to reveal that I'm from Bangalore ... goddamn it. Explains a lot.

By: miss lynnster

miss lynnster — Wed, 09 May 2007 23:39:14 -0800

What about when I'm linking to multiple parts of a youtube video? Can't put that on a playlist here, right?

By: !Jim

!Jim — Thu, 10 May 2007 02:38:18 -0800

Metafilter: the protecting armor the strong man throws around the god-given creative power in his body.

By: LordSludge

LordSludge — Thu, 10 May 2007 07:42:36 -0800

The multi-link words are fine because they link to multi-part videos. You done good. Can't think of a better, more concise way to do that. It's the every-letter-is-a-link-to-a-different-video that people object to; they're essentially a forest of links with no context nor explanation. (Why does "e" link to this video while "p" links to that video?)

Also, Metafilter: Stampeding straight for the clitoris.

By: dreamsign

dreamsign — Thu, 10 May 2007 08:42:55 -0800

I have never seen a more awkward interview on Conan. Wow, Sue made it bigtime! A long way from Q107 and WTN. Cool.

By: dreamsign

dreamsign — Thu, 10 May 2007 09:14:57 -0800

Jesus. Is all of Weeds like that?

By: rossmik

rossmik — Thu, 10 May 2007 11:11:49 -0800

Couldn't resist, Metafilter: That's why I'm not wearing any clothes

By: algreer

algreer — Thu, 10 May 2007 13:50:37 -0800

Bring out the monkey with the cymbals!

By: Firas

Firas — Mon, 14 May 2007 20:46:54 -0800

Yeah, that Weeds guy makes me majorly insecure. Does everyone walk around with slick monologues about masturbation at the ready? Complete with banana props? I've clearly been slacking.