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- From: nfh@leland.Stanford.EDU (Nancy Fisher Hansen)
- Subject: Re: SAFE SEX or SAFER SEX?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.202253.8307@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News)
- Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
- References: <16B61ADAE.M18611@MBVM.Mitre.Org> <1993Jan25.185255.22318@netcom.com>
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 20:22:53 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan25.185255.22318@netcom.com> shannah@netcom.com (Teri Miller) writes:
- >In article <16B61ADAE.M18611@MBVM.Mitre.Org> M18611@MBVM.Mitre.Org (Kathy Wilk) writes:
- >>
- >> If you talk about sex with a condom, use the correct term - SAFER sex.
- >>If condoms are AIDs-proof (and I don't mean 99.1%), please clarify this
- >>matter for me.
- >
- ><sigh> OK, let's see now: I cannot say "we are pregnant", and now I
- >cannot say "safe sex". What else can't I say?
-
- IMHO, the distinction between "we are pregnant" and "safer sex" is
- a big one. Although I don't usually make a big deal about whether
- to say "safe sex" and "safer sex," I will most definitely say the
- latter with my children. It is simply a more accurate use of the
- English language.
-
- >Is this really necessary? If you want to be excruciatingly correct,
- >knock yourself out. I think it's completely inappropriate, though,
- >for you to correct my usage, especially when my usage is correct
- >according to the rules of common usage, albeit as a slang term.
-
- The original poster may be trying to be "excruciatingly correct,"
- but if we somehow convince children that having promiscuous sex
- while using condoms is safe behavior, they could very well end
- up "excruciatingly" dead!
-
- >*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*
- >Teri Miller tmiller@cisco.com -or- shannah@netcom.com
- >*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*
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-
- --Nancy Hansen
- nancy@d31ha2.Stanford.EDU
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