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From: judy@watarts.UUCP (Judy Belyea)
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Subject: Re: Yet Another New Topic
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Date: Tue, 26-Feb-85 09:53:38 EST
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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.  That is, at the very beginning of
the relationship, just before the initial contact.  Others mentioned it
later, after a physical relationship was well on its way.
 
Most of the women were in their late twenties to mid thirties with at
least one marriage or live-in relationship.  Giving them each at least
five partners in their lifetime up to that point, that is a rather large
number of men who *jump in* without thought of the consequences.  
 
All of us were professionals and for the most part mature and responsible 
adults.  We had all used some method of birth control during our 
relationships when needed.  But how many women are that prepared?  If
at the end of a marriage or significant relationship a woman goes into
seclusion and stops using birth control whose responsibility is it if
two people meet and are *swept away*?  From our poll, we discovered that
the men definitely have decided it's our responsibility.  Both the precaution
and the consequences.  Things don't seem to have changed much after all.