Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pyuxc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxc!chris From: chris@pyuxc.UUCP (R. Hollenbeck) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Birth Control Message-ID: <624@pyuxc.UUCP> Date: Tue, 5-Mar-85 09:31:16 EST Article-I.D.: pyuxc.624 Posted: Tue Mar 5 09:31:16 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 6-Mar-85 05:05:42 EST Organization: Bell Communications Research, Piscataway, NJ Lines: 13 I once slept with a woman who was offended that I had had the forethought to bring condoms with me. She felt that being prepared indicated that I presumed we would have sex, i.e., that I thought she would be "easy." The lesson from this, I guess, is that being prepared for sex requires both men and women to admit that they are, or plan/hope to be, sexually active. In a society that still frowns on sex, this is a hard leap to make. Many take what they think is the easy way out, to be unprepared, rather than to go against social conventions that might label them promiscuous.