Occasionally I post some of the more interesting search engine queries that bring people here. Here's July's batch.
Mo Cuishla: I'm amazed that this still such a popular search. Perhaps the DVD was released recently. Anyhow, it means "my darling, my blood".
do you walk to work or carry your lunch: Are these mutually exclusive on your planet?!
last ruling on Catholic Purgatory: I have no idea what ruling is intended or by whom. I do know we still believe in it.
presentation on the life cycle of a serial killer: Replace "serial killer" with "praying mantis" and you have a nature program on PBS.
toga party and catholic: I guess the new pope is wilder than his predecessor. 
free turn paper on beneficial side of stem cells: Downloading term papers is plagiarism and grounds for failing most courses or worse. Thinking "term papers" are "turn papers" means you deserve to fail.
I had sex with my gay brother-in-law: Say what now?! How in Heaven's name did this search lead someone to my blog?
transgender who wants to be a woman and a leg amputee: Um…Eww.
regain virginity surgery: Huh? Somebody failed health class in high school.
transgender leg amputee personal dating: Who are these freaks?!
Funky Dung
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For many societies, the presence of a hymen is proof of virginity. Unfortunately, there are numbers of ways the tissue can be torn without involving sex (esp. sports). In such a situation (and there are people with those attitudes living in the United States), surgery restores the virginity — at least based on that definition.
The surgery is done on young rape victims as well as part of helping the person overcome the trauma of the rape. While I do not believe that rape takes away a woman's virginity, I'm pretty uncommon in that attitude. The surgery can sometimes be useful in restoring a victim's mind.
And, for those who wake up one day and realize that they've made some terrible mistakes, such "secondary virginity" is something to be encouraged. I don't think that the surgery is all that necessary in that case, but again, if it helps, who am I to argue?
I had a relative who played with a plastic cigarette for the last decades of his life. It kept him from smoking. Same concept. Freud would say "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, but not when you make analogies like that."
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Posted 01 Aug 2005 at 4:57 am ¶Mo cuishla might be explained by Million Dollar Baby's recent release on DVD.
Regarding amputations, the NY Times had an article on people who elected to have amputations because of some serious body image issues. This has been connected with trans-sexual operations in the bioethical sense, since we have organically healthy people who want to get a part of them removed so that they fit whatever self-image that they have. How you popped on a search for this, I do not know, did I maybe post this a while ago? Or maybe we linked to a site that had information on this, like First Things.
Speaking of the devil, there's a cool article on this by a Johns Hopkins psychiatrist at:
http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft0411/articles/mchugh.htm
Happy reading. Paul McHugh last cropped up in blog circles regarding a study he was commissioned to work on by the US Catholic bishops regarding pedophilia. (Exactly regarding what aspect of the disorder, I forget.)
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Posted 01 Aug 2005 at 7:56 pm ¶How in Heaven's name did this search lead someone to my blog?
Well… next time you'll know!
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Posted 05 Aug 2005 at 3:03 pm ¶Thank You
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