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I Ask My Constantly Naked Husband to Avoid Windows. He Says Thatโ€™s Body-Shaming.

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My husband likes to be naked all the time at home. I think he should cover up when heโ€™s in front of the big window in our front room and can be seen from the street, but he says I am being body shame-y. What do you think?

I dated a guy who thought he should be able to walk around in front of his large picture windows at home, naked and sometimes hard (morning wood-y), and he was adamant about it. And then one day the police came and arrested him for indecent exposure. Anyway, you should put up curtains and/or plant some tall bushes in front of those picture windows.

At a party recently I was chatting with a parent who mentioned that he lets his (elementary school age) kids look at porn. He had a laissez-faire attitude about the whole thing, but I found it disturbing. Am I being a judge-y childless witch?

There were no middle schools where I grew up, so an โ€œelementary school ageโ€ child could be a six-year-old first grader or 14-year-old eighth grader. For the record: I obviously donโ€™t think a six-year-old should view porn, and a responsible parent would not allow a young child to view pornography. I also know itโ€™s almost impossible for a parent to stop a motivated 14-year-old kid from looking at porn. So, if this manโ€™s children are older, perhaps he said, โ€œlets his kids,โ€ when he meant, โ€œcanโ€™t stop his kids.โ€ Whatever his kidsโ€™ ages, you canโ€™t stop him from not stopping his kid from looking at porn, but you are free to offer him some unsolicited advice. (Is there anything parents enjoy more?) You could also send him the clip of Billie Eilish on Howard Stern talking about how watching porn at a young age really messed with her head.

44-year-old here whoโ€™s on the dating scene for the first time in 11 years. A few months ago, I hit it off with a hot, hot guy. Great! My problem/question is about distractions during sex, and I need a sanity check. Once during intercourse, Hot Guy called out an answer to an NPR news quiz that was playing in the background. Is this behavior rude? Iโ€™m operating under the assumption that if oneโ€™s mind wanders during sex, one should at leastย pretendย to be focused.

โ€œMaybe this letter writer shouldโ€™ve chosen a more appropriate time for intimate relationsโ€”like when This American Life is playing,โ€ said Peter Sagal, the host of Wait Waitโ€ฆ Donโ€™t Tell Me!, National Public Radioโ€™s long-running news quiz program. โ€œStill, I completely understand why the letter writer would be offended by this manโ€™s behavior. First, by thinking our show would be appropriate as an audio background for lovemakingโ€”although Bill Kurtis is known, for good reason, as the Barry White of anchormen. And second, the fact that he actually answered questions out loud while in flagrante. But the letter writer shouldnโ€™t think he was completely ignoring her to concentrate on us: our questions arenโ€™t that hard.โ€

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Been playing with one of my fellow guys recentlyโ€”Iโ€™m a gay guyโ€”who says heโ€™s into men, but who absolutely refuses to let me (or anyone else) touch his butt. What is this?

The Ass Ceiling. (Itโ€™s also a boundary of his, and one you must respectโ€”but youโ€™re free to ask him about it. Conversations, even follow-up conversations, about limits, boundaries, and reasonable expectations are not inherently coercive. Wanting to better understand a โ€œnoโ€ doesnโ€™t mean you didnโ€™t hear it and donโ€™t respect it. But at the start of a follow-up conversation like that, you need to emphasize that you did, indeed, hear that โ€œno,โ€ and will, of course, continue to respect it.)

Iโ€™m a 40-year-old cis het man. For more than 20 yearsโ€”most of my life so farโ€”Iโ€™ve been obsessed with one woman. We were never a couple, and I havenโ€™t had contact with her since my mid-20s. How to get past this? The easiest way would probably be to start a relationship with another woman. Or I could get therapyโ€”but I donโ€™t know if my insurance would cover it.

Some days my Instagram feed is mostly memes about how straight guys will do literally anything to avoid getting the therapy they clearly needโ€ฆ and your question brought every one of those memes to mind. I mean, youโ€™ve been miserable for almost two decades and you canโ€™t be bothered to check whether your health insurance covers the therapy you so clearly need? Jesus, dude. Make that phone call, get some therapy, donโ€™t date anyone until youโ€™ve been seeing your therapist for at least a year.

My husband and I (bio female, newly transmasc) recently became poly. We have created a โ€œclosed kitchen table poly quadโ€ with our two best friends. The breakdown is one older married couple, one younger engaged couple, and itโ€™s getting serious. We are now talking about moving in together. Any tips on living together for poly newbies? I think we have a chance at making it work long-term, but I donโ€™t want to add pressure.

Hereโ€™s a tip for poly newbies: donโ€™t move in with other singles, couples, triads, battalions, etc., you just started dating. If moving in together is the right thing to do, moving in together will still be the right thing three years from now. If itโ€™s the wrong thing to do, moving in together will be a disaster three months from now. Take it slow.

A date recently tried acting out a Daddy Dom roleplay with me. I donโ€™t want to judge, butโ€ฆย 

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