Hey, Faggot:

It’s one of those two or three days a year when everyone and everything conspires to heighten our expectations to absolutely unrealistic levels, assuring us a miserable letdown of an experience. If we dare watch TV, or pick up a paper, or leave the fucking house anytime around Valentine’s Day or Christmas or Thanksgiving or New Year’s Eve or Mother’s Day we’re barraged with images of impossible-to-attain levels of material and emotional comforts, images that force us to draw unflattering comparisons with our own piddling less-than-Hallmarked lives.

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And you know what, B? Valentine’s Day sucks whether or not you have a squeeze. If you don’t have one, you feel like a loser. If you do, they forgot to send you flowers, or they were too busy to see you, or you couldn’t get reservations at a decent restaurant, or whatever. But something invariably happens that makes you feel like “your” Valentine’s Day, the Valentine’s Day promised you by every goddamned Hallmark card commercial and every fucking florist from here to the Arctic Circle, was ruined.

Or you could go to Vegas for three days, hole up in a suite with a case of Scotch, a stack of Dean Martin CDs, and order up yourself a boy or girl from one of those classy modeling agencies that serve the hotels. It’ll cost ya, but you won’t be alone–there’ll doubtless be plenty of other folks there doing the exact same thing.

The risks? Well, if a woman is HIV positive, her breast milk contains pretty much the same amount of the virus as her blood or the semen of an HIV-positive man. For this reason, HIV-positive mothers are advised not to breast-feed.

When I make love, I love my breasts to be squeezed and sucked very hard. Although I enjoy this a great deal, my nipples rarely get hard–even during intercourse. I have tried to pleasure myself and that doesn’t work either. If they get hard, it’s only for a brief moment. My boyfriend always thinks he isn’t satisfying me. Even when he does, they still don’t get hard. Are there any other women with this problem and what does it mean and what can I do, either alone or with him? I’ve rented a few porno movies over the years and I have never seen any of the women with anything other than hard nipples. What do I do? –Thanks