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"Sharing intimate sex and relationship details with your girlfriends can be one of the best parts of friendship, but how do you know how much is too much? If there&amp;amp;#8217;s one thing I&amp;amp;#8217;ve learned after 24-years of being friends with women, it&amp;amp;#8217;s that we all have very different ideas about what constitutes &amp;amp;#8220;too much information.&amp;amp;#8221; Alarmingly different. I have one friend who has absolutely no qualms about sharing extremely vivid body descriptions and preferred sex positions, and another who feels the need to preface the revelation that she gave her boyfriend a blowjob with the disclaimer, &amp;amp;#8220;I hope this isn&amp;amp;#8217;t too inappropriate, but...&amp;amp;#8221; Though I always think I know which friends will be comfortable sharing (or listening to) graphic details, I&amp;#x27;m constantly finding myself surprised. And those who I&amp;amp;#8217;d expect to be tight-lipped on the topic? Well, they often turn into X-rated fountains of filth if only given the opportunity. I know so many things about so many penises I&amp;amp;#8217;ve never seen. I personally tend to err on the side of caution, but there are a few tricks for picking up on who among your friends is just waiting to participate in a good and dirty dishing session. 1. Watch a few episodes of Sex &amp;amp; the City with her to see how she reacts. If she gets squeamish over Samantha&amp;amp;#8217;s various double entendres, she&amp;amp;#8217;s probably not going to be any more eager to hear them from you. If things are going well, though, you can ask her &amp;amp;#8220;has that ever happened to you?&amp;amp;#8221; when one of the girls&amp;amp;#8217; hook-ups goes awry in some specific way. 2. Or, if you&amp;amp;#8217;re hanging out with her, share a few mild details from a recent escapade and she if tries to draw more out of you. If she says to tell her &amp;amp;#8220;exactly what happened,&amp;amp;#8221; she probably means it, so feel free to launch into excruciating detail. 3. My final suggestion is to live with her for a year. After that, all bets are off, and you&amp;amp;#8217;ll know things about each other that you never necessarily even wanted to know about any other human being in your life. For example&amp;amp;#133; Friend #1: &amp;amp;#8220;My butt is really sore.&amp;amp;#8221; Friend #2: &amp;amp;#8220;Thanks for letting me know.&amp;amp;#8221; Friend #1: &amp;amp;#8220;You don&amp;amp;#8217;t want to know why.&amp;amp;#8221; Friend #2: &amp;amp;#8220;You&amp;amp;#8217;re right, I probably don&amp;amp;#8217;t.&amp;amp;#8221; Friend #1: &amp;amp;#8220;I was going at it for like, three hours.&amp;amp;#8221; Do you have a friend who is fond of giving TMI? How do you decide who gets the full story and who doesn&amp;amp;#8217;t? Katie Heaney is a writer and dedicated text message analyst in Minneapolis. Follow her on Twitter @KTHeaney. More Ways to Get Glamour: Chat with celebs, VIP fashion stars, beauty pros and more on our Facebook page! Visit Facebook.com/glamour for this month&amp;amp;#8217;s schedule Download Glamour Magazine for your iPad--print subscribers, it&amp;amp;#8217;s now part of your subscription plan! Enter the latest Glamour sweepstakes! Follow us on Twitter Photo: Thinkstock"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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