I'm a guy and I have several female friends that I've cuddled with. I'm not interested in them in the dating sense and I know they aren't interested in me, but we are close friends. Sometimes though, I randomly get a boner even though I wasn't even remotely thinking about sex. What the hell? I don't get it and I'm not sure if anyone has ever noticed but it's super awkward. Is that normal? It makes me feel like such a pervert but I don't know what to do. I don't want to start acting all weird around them and never cuddle, but I also hate getting a boner when there is no reason to. To the ladies: if you were cuddling with a guy friend and he got a boner, would you be grossed out?
#hormonessuck

I have a hard time understanding many people's views about God. I have always seen God as a loving father and I have also been blessed with a loving earthly father to help show me what that looks like. I know my dad loves me and would never do anything to hurt me, so I have a difficult time when people say God makes us sick or gives us cancer as a gift. It's like "Happy Birthday! It's cancer!" Does the fact that my dad hasn't tried to make me sick mean he doesn't love me enough? Because I know God loves me way more than my dad does. I know God can take horrible things and make them be used for good, but to say he causes them or turns a blind eye doesn't seem like love to me.

The girl I took to formal was the most amazing girl, and I've never cared about anybody so much in my entire life. I thought we might have a future but she just stopped talking to me. I've tried putting myself out there, but to no success. Now I don't know how to tell her goodbye, considering I might actually love somebody on this earth.

To the guy who doesn't think female piercings are attractive. Try making out with a guy, and when he whips it out, seeing he has a piercing. That's right, a dick piercing. Attractive? Possibly. Useful, very.

I knew our relationship had no serious future when you told me you were agnostic, because God is so vital to every part of my life, and I could not share that with you. But that is not the last time I spoke to you. I tried a few more times to reach out to you, and when you never responded with real interest, I gave up. I still believe you are a kind and loyal person, and agnosticism did NOT change my view of you. I hope you never believed I thought you were worthless, because I never did.

I'm a guy and I used to self-harm. NO ONE knows this. I quit because I met people who cared about me and I couldn't hurt them. Now one of my close friends started cutting. Authority figures already know. However, their self-harm is triggering mine again. I feel ashamed because at the same time as I'm telling them not to, as I'm getting angry at them for not considering the feelings of those around them, I NEED to do it myself.

I'll always have George Fox to thank for introducing me to the love of my life

Being at home this summer and away from the family I made at Fox is awful. Being away from the few special friends gives me a hole in my heart, especially being away from a certain close friend. The emptiness I feel sends me into dark places because I am without that friend. I've never felt this way about someone before and I know it's not love...I just don't know if this is normal.