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Wow! Of all places, indeed! Cosmo! Man, reading that is so exciting! They handled it so well. ;u; Go, Rachel Morris!

Ah, but this is UK Cosmo, huh? No wonder. XD OK, my excitement level has decreased quite a bit. I'd be absolutely floored to see that in America, but I bet we have a long way to go yet... The only mention of asexuality I can find on US Cosmo's website is a sort-of derogatory slur. :/ http://www.cosmopolitan.com/sex-love/hot-sex/hot-sex-tips-challenge-30?click=main_sr

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Yeah, wow. Cosmo?! The magazine known for headlines like "20 Hot Moves to Give Your Man the Orgasm of His Life!"??? Fairly impressive.

For now, I'll refrain from bitching about how much I hate the herterocentricity (did I just make that word up?) of 99.9% of Cosmo articles. <_<

In my case the article was 100 odd things about sex (or something like that), asexuality was one of them. I'm very glad tI read that article, very.

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I couldn't see your link OP as I wont subscribe to Devian. I discovered asexuality reading Cosmos LOL, it was just a line, basically, I dropped the magazine and ran to the computer to search more about it I was like :o :blink: :o :D :lol: :) and then like...

I can't see the article either. OP, do you have a link to the article on the Cosmo website? I'd love to read it.

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It's hard for me to take Cosmo seriously at all after hearing all of the parody sex tips.

Like this one:

As you’re about to go down on your partner, suddenly scream at the top of your lungs: “I’M GONNA WRECK IT!!”

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Here's a pretty good Cosmo parody cover, while we're on the topic. :P

Haha wow that is pretty accurate though XD

Here's a funny link to a Cracked article making fun of Cosmo: http://www.cracked.com/article_19066_7-psychotic-pieces-relationship-advice-from-cosmo.html

But anyways back to the main point - even though Cosmo can be ridiculous it's still good to be seeing the term asexual used in such a popular magazine. They may not be using it 100% accurately but it may get people to go out and do their own research.

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It wouldn't let me read it. All I got was a pop up screen that said sign up or log on.

Edit: Thanks for posting the Cosmo article, Jic.

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Ahh sorry I didn't get back to everyone, I was away from my computer -.-

Thanks Jic for posting the picture. How did you post it like that?

That's what I wanted to do originally but I couldn't work out how to do it, hence the link. I also didn't realise it would ask people to sign up to DA :/ (Never experienced that before)

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Here's a pretty good Cosmo parody cover, while we're on the topic. :P

"Do cupcakes make good boyfriends?"- uh yeah, of course (duh!) :L

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Wow! Of all places, indeed! Cosmo! Man, reading that is so exciting! They handled it so well. ;u; Go, Rachel Morris!

Ah, but this is UK Cosmo, huh? No wonder. XD OK, my excitement level has decreased quite a bit. I'd be absolutely floored to see that in America, but I bet we have a long way to go yet... The only mention of asexuality I can find on US Cosmo's website is a sort-of derogatory slur. :/ http://www.cosmopoli...0?click=main_sr

Yeah, it is the UK cosmo. I didn't think there was too much difference between the US and the UK in terms of the awareness though (I am guessing I am wrong)?

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It's hard for me to take Cosmo seriously at all after hearing all of the parody sex tips.

Like this one:

As you’re about to go down on your partner, suddenly scream at the top of your lungs: “I’M GONNA WRECK IT!!”

Guiggy, I just had to thank you for the laugh-out-loud I had when I read this! How delightfully absurd.

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Haha, nice. Nice to see AVEN got plugged at the same time. :D

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Thanks Jic for posting the picture. How did you post it like that?

That's what I wanted to do originally but I couldn't work out how to do it, hence the link. I also didn't realise it would ask people to sign up to DA :/ (Never experienced that before)

Not to worry.

Really simple trick. ^_^

Go to any image, right click: "Copy Image Location" and it'll give you the url for the image (so it'll end with .jpg, .gif, .png, etc.).

For example:

https://www.google.co.uk/logos/2012/120th_anniversary_of_the_nutcracker_ballet-992006-hp.jpg

Is the url for the current Google image.

Post with the image tags.

120th_anniversary_of_the_nutcracker_ball

Voilà.

AVEN currently has an annoying system, where right clicking on an image opens up a pop-up of the image... for some reason.

So, if you wanted to copy an image from an AVEN post. Click it, open up the pop-up and then click "SAVE". It'll open up a new tab and you can copy the url in the address bar. There's your location, image tags, etc.

NB: I hope the first Google link is working. Originally it didn't, but it magically fixed itself. Hopefully it stays that way.

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For some reason, the part 'Nothing speaks louder to a man than an adandoned erection' made me laugh really hard...^_^

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Thanks for the post Jic :)

How did you get it to show as a picture rather than a link though? That's what I am really curious about :)

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Thanks for the post Jic :)

How did you get it to show as a picture rather than a link though? That's what I am really curious about :)

I'm not too certain of the question. Are you asking how image tags on AVEN work?

If that is the question:

This:

[img=http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lw9nfgfg4z1qjokxe.gif]

Becomes this:

tumblr_lw9nfgfg4z1qjokxe.gif

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Wow. Cosmo? Damn. Kudos to them for broadening their scope!

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Thanks for the post Jic :)

How did you get it to show as a picture rather than a link though? That's what I am really curious about :)

I'm not too certain of the question. Are you asking how image tags on AVEN work?

If that is the question:

This:

[img=http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lw9nfgfg4z1qjokxe.gif]

Becomes this:

tumblr_lw9nfgfg4z1qjokxe.gif

I think I get it actually now....

The google logo today is boring, so here is a another picture instead :)

tumblr_mhe8rq2Zap1r0wqrdo1_500.jpg

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