Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site sdcsla.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxj!houxm!whuxl!whuxlm!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcsla!clark From: clark@sdcsla.UUCP (Clark Quinn) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: Responsibility for birth control Message-ID: <810@sdcsla.UUCP> Date: Tue, 5-Mar-85 17:52:08 EST Article-I.D.: sdcsla.810 Posted: Tue Mar 5 17:52:08 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 8-Mar-85 04:51:59 EST References: <3850001@csd2.UUCP> <8283@watarts.UUCP> <1635@ittvax.UUCP> <615@mako.UUCP> Organization: U.C. San Diego, Cognitive Science Lab Lines: 41> OK, so we agree on one thing: it's unromantic. However it's quite > necessary. What happens if she forgets? Is it really so horrible > to ask "What about birth control?" and get an "All taken care of, I > use the method." Wouldn't you rather hear an "Opps, I forgot, > hang on a minute" than get a "We have a little problem" call a > couple months down the road? Yes, Yes, Yes, I say, as that just recently happened to me. So we had to spend 15 minutes tearing her room apart trying to find the thing (she hadn't used it in a while :-(), it made me twice as glad I had asked. > A little consideration goes a long way. Again, yes, yes, yes. I have many times heard "It's taken care of but thank you for asking!" ^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^ ^^^^^^ Come on folks, wake up, it's the twentieth century. It takes two to well, tango, and so the responsibility is on both partners. There is a lot of fun to be shared, but so is the responsibility. > _____ > |___| the Bavarian Beagle > _|___|_ Snoopy > \_____/ tektronix!mako!seifert > \___/ > -- Clark "What do you mean you used it as a pincushion?" Clark N. Quinn Institute for Cognitive Science C-015 University of California, San Diego La Jolla, California 92093 (619) 452-2541 (UCSD): (619) 481-0952 (Home) {ucbvax,decvax,akgua,dcdwest}!sdcsvax!sdcsla!clark OR clark@nprdc