"The Kiss of Death Mistake"

You replay the conversation at 2 a.m. She texted back fast yesterday. Today, nothing. Was that smile friendly or flirty? What did the shoulder touch mean?

Every hour you spend decoding her signals drains your confidence and hands her the controls. Women can sense that insecurity from across the room — and it repels them.

One of the "22 Rules" kills the obsession on the spot: assume she likes you, and act accordingly. Sounds too simple. Works anyway.

Her interest tends to rise to meet your expectations. Psychologists call it a self-fulfilling prophecy.

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There’s a new way to avoid getting STDs without wearing a condom

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For those who didn't know.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/ot...could-also-make-the-problem-worse/ar-AA1egrdM

Public health officials are deploying a powerful new weapon in the war against rising sexually transmitted infections: a common antibiotic that works as a morning-after pill.

It is the latest advancement as the sexual health field shifts to preventive medicine — not just condoms, abstinence and tests — as the best hope for quashing the pathogens that can spread during sex.

For the past decade, people have been able to have unprotected sex with a low risk of contracting HIV thanks to daily pills known as PrEP, or pre-exposure prophylaxis. But they were still susceptible to bacterial bugs, including the recent spike in syphilis, gonorrhea and chlamydia — until now.
 

"Nervous Around Beautiful Women? There's a Rule for That"

I could talk to any woman I wasn't attracted to. Charming, funny, relaxed. Then a gorgeous woman looked my way and I'd become a sweating, babbling mess.

The fix took me years to find and ten minutes to learn. Nervousness and excitement are the same physical state — pounding heart, adrenaline, flushed face. Your brain just picks the label. And you can pick a better one.

Rule 16 shows you how. You feel the nerves, relabel them as excitement, and let that energy pour out as enthusiasm. Women notice the guy radiating it. They always do.

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Doxy has been around for 60 + years; it's particularly effective against most STDs. Still, few people (outside healthcare) knew that a mega oral bolus could act as a morning-after solution to unprotected sex.

Unfortunately, this article has mainstreamed it, as it could be used in states where rape victims couldn't receive ru-486 because of recent changes. Its increased use will also foster the creation of antibiotic-resistant strains of STDs, bad all around.
 

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Doxy has been around for 60 + years; it's particularly effective against most STDs. Still, few people (outside healthcare) knew that a mega oral bolus could act as a morning-after solution to unprotected sex.

Unfortunately, this article has mainstreamed it, as it could be used in states where rape victims couldn't receive ru-486 because of recent changes. Its increased use will also foster the creation of antibiotic-resistant strains of STDs, bad all around.
Correct me if I am wrong. But you say that it's basically an illusion of safety? Because at first you're unaffected by STDs, but over time you might catch a incurable infection?

Sounds like chemotherapy where you kill of everything in order to survive.
 

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Condoms offer very poor protection for STDs.

If you think of the natural openings in the material of a condom, the virus would be the size of a pinpoint and the condom's natural openings would be the size of a giant double door.

Which means it's not very good protection at all. Condoms are to prevent pregnancies. Trying to use them for any other reason will not provide the benefits you think.
 

"The Coffee Shop Girl You Never Spoke To"

You've replayed it a hundred times. She stood three feet away, scrolling her phone. You had an opening. You composed the perfect line — after she was gone.

For all you know, she's married now. To some guy who said something. Anything.

Openers are cheap. Almost any sentence works when it's delivered within three seconds. The expensive part is the standing there, drafting and deleting, while the window quietly closes.

The "22 Rules" stripped out my hesitation. What to open with, how to keep it alive, and the one habit that costs guys more women than anything else: waiting for perfect.

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Condoms offer very poor protection for STDs.

If you think of the natural openings in the material of a condom, the virus would be the size of a pinpoint and the condom's natural openings would be the size of a giant double door.

Which means it's not very good protection at all. Condoms are to prevent pregnancies. Trying to use them for any other reason will not provide the benefits you think.
This should immediately make any man think twice about honoring and visiting prostitutes and thinking its " perfectly safe ".
 

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antibiotics should only be used for the amount of time that they are prescribed for. They should only be used once the efficacy is guaranteed for the particular bug you’re trying to kill.

When you don’t do this or follow the instructions completely, you allow bacteria to develop defenses against the
method of action the antibiotics use to kill pathogens. Hence allowing natural selection to take place a zillion times a day and mutations to occur that render the antibiotics ineffective.

Correct me if I am wrong. But you say that it's basically an illusion of safety? Because at first you're unaffected by STDs, but over time you might catch a incurable infection?

Sounds like chemotherapy where you kill of everything in order to survive.
 

"Stop Asking Your Friends What to Text Her"

Your buddy Dave has been single for three years and thinks "hey u up" is a valid strategy. Your other buddy Mike just got dumped and told you to "just be yourself."

You showed them her text. You asked them to decode the emoji. You drafted four responses and sent the screenshot to the group chat for a vote.

She's been waiting forty minutes.

Put the phone down. Stop crowdsourcing your love life. Type something that sounds like you. Hit send. Then go do literally anything else with your evening.

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Not sure if I have to be happy or annoyed honestly.

Anyway I would rather avoid any chemicals unless strictly necessary.
 
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