This Dildo Can Be Filled With The Ashes Of Your Deceased Lover

Morbid masturbation, people.

Dutch designer Mark Sturkenboom created a glass dildo that can hold your cremated loved one’s ashes.

The urn—which is part of an art exhibition—offers the possibility to conserve the ashes of the deceased while also manifesting an immortal desire, according to Sturkenboom.

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The dild-urn holds exactly 21 grams of ashes.

Why 21? Early 20th century physician Dr. Duncan MacDougall came up with the idea that the human body lost around 21 grams of weight, which represented the soul, after a person died.

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The dild-urn also comes with a kit that includes a ring holder, iPhone speakers, and a fragrance diffuser.

"By bringing different nostalgic moments together like the scent of his perfume, ‘their’ music and reviving the moment he gave her her first ring, it opens a window to go back to moments of love and intimacy," Sturkenboom says.

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There's a spot to store your iPhone, too.

And you can put your playlist on repeat.

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22 Things You Should Know About Fertility

If you’re ever thinking of having kids, here are some things you should know.

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Heads up: This story addresses fertility issues that specifically apply to cisgender men and women. Cisgender means that you identify with the gender you were assigned at birth. We'll be posting a story about everything that trans individuals should know about fertility in the near future, and will update this story with that link as soon as it's live.

If you think you might ever want kids, you should start thinking about it and planning for it in your twenties.

Yes, seriously! "Just like we plan for retirement, we should plan for reproduction," Dr. Lubna Pal, reproductive science specialist, OB-GYN, and director of the Polycystic Ovary Syndrome Program at the Yale University School of Medicine tells BuzzFeed Life. That's because there are a lot of things that might make it harder for you to get pregnant in the future, and it's important for you to know about them now so that you can better understand your own risks and make informed choices about your potential timeline. Start talking to your doctor about it, if you haven't already.

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Fertility issues can affect both men and women. It's a couple's issue, not just a woman's problem.

When a couple seeks help for fertility issues, about a third of the time it's due to male-factor infertility, a third of the time it's female-factor infertility, and the other third is a combination problem — where both partners are contributing, Dr. Landon Trost, assistant professor of urology and head of Male Infertility and Andrology at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, tells BuzzFeed Life.

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If HGTV Shows Had Honest Taglines

“They’re gonna list it.”

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Here's What Happened When We Made A "Harry Potter" Star Try Our Butterbeer

Jason Isaacs, who currently is starring on USA’s Dig, stopped by the BuzzFeed Los Angeles offices to taste-test our enchanting concoctions.

All Potterheads know this to be true: There is no better wizarding beverage than Butterbeer.

You can try some at the Wizarding World of Harry Potter in Orlando, or the Warner Bros. Studio Tour in England. But what if you made your OWN Butterbeer at home, from scratch?

Luckily, we're always up for a challenge, so four "Hogwarts students" (JK, BuzzFeed employees) decided to test their Potions prowess and whip up their own interpretation of the drink, which has been described as a "less sickly butterscotch" by none other than J.K. Rowling herself.

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But we couldn't just make four Butterbeers and call it a day. We needed to determine a WINNER, and who better to judge our efforts than Jason Isaacs, aka Lucius Malfoy himself?!?

Jason currently is starring on USA’s Dig — an “action-adventure, murder-mystery, conspiracy thriller,” as he described it, that travels across the world — and said it's “more real and more exciting than many things I’ve done” (also, you should be catching up on the show, he said, because “you don’t want people to spoil the huge, surprising fun shit that happens.”)

Luckily for us, he said he’s “always loved sweet things.”

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Jason stopped by BuzzFeed's L.A. office to lend his discerning Death Eater taste to our Butterbeer taste test.

Our contestants, from left, representing the four Hogwarts houses of Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, and Slytherin, respectively: Sheridan, Kirsten, Brian, and Lara.

Our four Hogwarts students had 15 minutes to whip up their best interpretation of a Butterbeer for Jason to taste-test. Let's just say the competition was VERY heated!

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And they're off!

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Here's How Old Microsoft Thinks The Characters From "Harry Potter" Are

Remember the time Fred and George tried an age potion? It’s kind of like that.

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Should You Date Thorin Or Bard From "The Hobbit?"

Team Dwarf or Team Human?

17 Cross-Stitches That Say What You're Actually Thinking

Meet the OG subversive stitcher. (NSFWish).

If you spend any time on Etsy or Pinterest or really the internet in general, you've probably encountered subversive cross-stitches.

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Maybe they're needlepointed rap lyrics; maybe they're incredibly sexual images rendered in thread.

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But they're not a new trend: Julie Jackson, of the Subversive Cross-Stitch blog, has been making these pieces since 2003.

"I was at a really awful job and my boss was a huge bully," she told BuzzFeed Life, "so I picked up a really ornate sampler at a craft store and stitched 'fuck' in the middle of it. I couldn't believe it was so freakin' therapeutic."

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"I put up a site to share with friends and hoped they'd join me," she said.

"Then it went viral, so I quickly put up an email sign-up and decided to sell kits. It really just kind of happened like that."

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