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As winter term begins, most of us return to OSU campus stuffed from the feasts and festivities that we call the holidays, ready to resume business as usual, or maybe that's just me. It will be interesting to see if competency can replace comedy as we welcome a new president.

Once when I was fourteen, I was playing cards with the neighborhood boys, and they started talking about masturbating. Actually, I think they referred to it as "slapping the salami." When I shared one of my own stories about masturbating, their reaction was something between erotic shock and disgust.