Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/3/84; site cfa.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!wjh12!cfa!wyatt From: wyatt@cfa.UUCP (Bill Wyatt) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: Re: Yet Another New Topic Message-ID: <128@cfa.UUCP> Date: Fri, 1-Mar-85 12:56:09 EST Article-I.D.: cfa.128 Posted: Fri Mar 1 12:56:09 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 4-Mar-85 06:18:45 EST References: <3850001@csd2.UUCP> <8283@watarts.UUCP> <1372@watcgl.UUCP> Organization: Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Lines: 20 > In article <8283@watarts.UUCP> judy@watarts.UUCP (Judy Belyea) writes: > >In a recent all-female wine & chat the conversation turned to sexual > >etiquette. A casual poll was taken. Here are the results: Out of 15 > >women, none of them listing exactly how many partners they had had, > >exactly *one* male partner had expressed any concern about birth control > >before the first love making session. > > I find it difficult to believe the implication of this: that the vast > majority of men do not want to take any responsibility for birth control. > I take this responsibility seriously, and the few men that I've talked > to about it also do. > ... I also take this responsibility seriously, but I unfortunately do not find it difficult to believe the above implication. One of my women friends (i.e. not an SO) told me that every man she ever slept with (I don't know how many) simply expected her to be "ready". When I expressed some shock at this state of affairs (no pun intended), she was shocked that *I* was shocked! -- Bill {harvard,genrad,allegra,ihnp4}!wjh12!cfa!wyatt