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- From: kcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Keith "Justified And Ancient" Cochran)
- Subject: Re: Well, I lost that article...
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.230141.26249@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 23:01:41 GMT
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- In article <4bmmq2c.ray@netcom.com> ray@netcom.com (Ray Fischer) writes:
- >kcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Keith "Justified And Ancient" Cochran) writes ...
- >>Stating that abstinance is the only 100% guaranteed way of preventing pregnancy
- >>is value neutral. If says that if you don't want to become pregnant, don't
- >>have sex. If you want to become pregnant, then you'd better have sex. If
- >>you don't want to become pregnant, but have sex, you're taking some risk.
- >
- >It is value neutral only to the degree it is accurate. Since abstinance
- >is obviously not the only 100% certain way of preventing pregnancy, one
- >might easily conclude that you're pushing your own agenda by making this
- >statement.
- >
- >What other ways work?
- >Sterilization
- >Homosexual sex
- >Masturbation
- >Death
- >And most versions that don't involve inserting a penis into a vagina.
-
- (Sigh. I need some way to keeping all the context without having to spout
- off 500 lines of quoted text...)
-
- I was talking about ways guaranteed 100% to avoid pregnancy and STD's.
- Abstinance is one. Masturbation _by yourself_ is another. I'm sure pretty
- much everybody can think of others.
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