In the United States, the last recorded clitoridectomy for curing masturbation was performed in 1948--on a five year old girl.
I am still learning. (at age 87)
What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?
I serve for the love of God and in Him have all my hope.
Love is a beautiful image Imagined or seen within the heart, The friend of virtue and gentility.
The mind, the soul, becomes ennobled by the endeavour to create something perfect, for God is perfection, and whoever strives after perfection is striving for something devine.
Do you know that women who are chaste remain much fresher than those who are not?
There is no fashion for the old.
I think somebody who is more self-reflective should ask why they personally aren't going on that path. If amateurism is so great, why didn't you stay one? You have to look at the larger economy, a backdrop of unemployment; it's shitty out there.
Life is not over because you have diabetes. Make the most of what you have, be grateful.
For 35 years, I was a writer. I wrote a lot of jokes. Some of them weren't funny. Some of them weren't appropriate. Some of them were downright offensive. I understand that.