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elstaffe
is on page 145 of 382
"Being with the tribe doesn't replace the Feels built into completing the cycle." (145) oh FFS. How can you be so chronically online you cutesily use the word "Feels" instead of "emotions" in your scientific book and also so in a bubble you use the word "tribe" to describe being among "your people" -- oh, it's white privilege, isn't it. Never mind.
— 18 hours, 28 min ago
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elstaffe
is on page 60 of 382
"But a guy who wants sex more when he's anxious or depressed may have less sensitive brakes. A woman who wants sex more when she's anxious or depressed may have a more sensitive accelerator." (60) Italicizing words doesn't actually prove anything about sex differences in the dual control model of sexual desire." (60)
— 18 hours, 33 min ago
elstaffe
is on page 110 of 382
"Stress is the physiological and neurological process that helps you deal with threats. Love is the physiological and neurological process that draws you to your tribe." (110) tell me you're a white woman of a certain age and social strata without telling me you're a white woman of a certain age and social strata
— Mar 21, 2026 08:48PM
elstaffe
is on page 27 of 382
"But the hymen doesn't break and stay broken forever, like some kind of freshness seal. If a hymen tears or bruises, it heals." (27) the freshness seal imagery gives a whole new meaning to the mislaidenhead/wandering hymen in a certain romance novel era
— Mar 21, 2026 08:45PM
