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Hey guys, I hope I can help put everyone’s minds at ease a bit. Human sexuality is a bit hobby of mine, and thus STIs fall square in the middle of that.

There is a lot of stigma surrounding STDs, and HPV is the leading the charge right now. HPV while it carries some small risk of cancer is not the big scary dangerous monster it is made out to be and most everyone reading this will have at least one if not more HPV infections in their lifetime and clear it without even knowing they had it.

Please keep in mind, the most dangerous symptom of HPV and most STIs is SOCIAL STIGMA. The emotional damage far outweighs the small amount of risk. This stigma has its roots our western culture’s very conservative and religious background.

Because of how low risk this particular virus is, pelvic exam recommendations are starting to move towards every two to three years. More frequent exams fail to give your body time to clear infections on its own and lead to emotional distress with no improved health benefit due to the high amount of social stigma assigned to an infection that is benign in most people it infects.

There are over 100 strains of HPV that humans can catch. Most are asymptomatic, several cause warts and several can cause cancer. The cancer causing strains, most commonly 16 and 18, are the ones considered high-risk. Most of the time your body will clear an HPV infection on its own.

The only time doctors generally will, or should, consider treatment for HPV is if your PAP is showing abnormal cells and even then progression towards cancer is so slow that they will often choose to simply watch and wait because your body has some phenomenal mechanics to combat cervical abnormalities. Your cervix really is a phenomenal organ in so many ways and is actually built to clear abnormalities and keep itself healthy.

If treatment is elected, it will generally be in the form of a LEEP. There are no medicines proven to combat HPV except preventative ones. If anyone tells you that they have a medicine that will clear HPV be very wary of their motivations.

As to male diagnosis, there is no effective routine HPV test for men short of an anal PAP which is only recommended for homosexual men with a certain number of partners. For heterosexual men who are engaging in vaginal intercourse you will never have an HPV test as part of a standard STI panel.

Because most HPV infections clear on their own you will also never track down where it came from, and there is really no need to.

The best news is that high-risk HPV generally is accompanied by a cofactor to progress to an abnormal PAP. The most common cofactor is smoking. You are three times more likely to contract an HPV infection from an infected partner and three times less likely to clear one if you smoke. Don’t smoke and eat well and you will equip your body to deal much better with all the little nasties you’ll run into in this world.

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Dorian was a great guy, super nice and an honest to god Jedi. He made his own bending machine and is continually enhancing it he also made his own oven for baking the powder coating on the aerial equipment he makes. If you are going to buy a lyra or lollipop you gotta go through this guy.

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Thanks for the kind words vicious. I’m not particularly eloquent I just say whats in my heart.

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Thanks litlbit. We have been married for 19 years and while it hasn’t always been easy it has been amazing. I love my beautiful dancer so much and I look forward every day to the adventure that comes next.

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It is impossible to tell you what your ceiling can support in this regard. Your best bet would be to have a professional come in to evaluate the load bearing capacity of your ceiling and whether its realistic to install the necessary hardware to hang a lyra.

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I wouldn’t recommend an aftermarket machined part:

1) Differences in metal composition could mean different expansion rates which could mean its either nearly impossible to get apart or doesn’t want to stay together.
2) The original X-Pole is chromed, to get a matching finish along with the machining of the part you would have been far better off purchasing a brand new X-Pole with the extension you needed and then have support far into the future.

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Have you called X-Pole? They have some extensions in stock but I do believe they have discontinued their manufacture.

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Great deal on lessons!!!

https://www.studioveena.com/user_registrations/cyberweek2015

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We are having delivery issues to AOL addresses it seems, I’ll check into why these connections might be failing. In the meantime all other providers seem to be working just fine.

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Veena does a periscope cast at least once a week.

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Thought you guys might find this interesting considering the topic.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2015/10/21/ads_for_thinx_period_underwear_might_be_too_lewd_for_the_subway.html

Evidently the company that manages subway ads for New York won’t allow the tasteful ads for Thinx even though they will allow scantily clad sexualized images.

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I have to say that the term appropriation is a very loaded term and was used by the article’s author purely for its emotional impact. The term is sensational and irresponsible from a journalistic perspective.

If we take that stance that we should never try to emulate or adopt another culture we take the stance that humanity should not seek to understand anyone else and we further the separations between ourselves and others.

Cultural adoption and emulation has gone on throughout the history of mankind. It is one of the primary ways cultures evolve, change improve and find solidarity in one another. We find understanding by emulating others in life and in art.

Much emulation in art or life comes from a perspective of honor and desire to understand. When someone dances to cultural music in their understanding of the cultural dress they have found something beautiful about it and are simply trying understand a culture in the way that they explore the world.

We can then choose to accept that gift in the spirit in which it was intended or we can be offended. If someone chooses to be offended, that is on them and not the person who was trying to understand or honor them.

This argument breaks down in the face of caricature and that is where we need to apply some critical thinking. Is someone making a statement through their caricature? Perhaps they do not understand the implications of their costume choice? Someone who chooses a sexy Native American costume for their halloween party probably doesn’t understand the implications of their choice while someone who chooses an unflattering representation of Obama or Trump most likely full understands what they are doing and is making a statement. I will leave it to you to choose how to deal with intentional and unintentional caricature.

In the end we need to seek to understand each other, not just the cultures we emulate but the ones emulating us. Being offended just gets in the way of open dialog and better relationships between everyone.

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Thank-you all for the birthday wishes. Veena made me feel really special today.

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