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- From: shannah@netcom.com (Teri Miller)
- Newsgroups: misc.kids
- Subject: Re: SAFE SEX or SAFER SEX?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.225716.24187@netcom.com>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 22:57:16 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan25.202253.8307@leland.Stanford.EDU> nfh@leland.Stanford.EDU (Nancy Fisher Hansen) writes:
- >
- >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.
- >
- I think you should say whatever you like. What I object to is being
- told what *I* should say. If Kathy had originally posed it that way,
- I would not have objected. I'm just getting tired of hearing that I'm
- not supposed to say certain things.
-
- >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!
- >
- Where did you hear that the use of condoms was the only prerequisite
- for "safe sex"? I'm not convinced that using condoms, and not all of
- the other techniques for "safe sex" even qualifies as "safer sex".
- Condoms break too easily, in my experience, to be useful as anything
- more than one small facet of an overall method. Using them as the
- only method is (IMHO) terribly risky, and not something I would brand
- as "safer sex".
-
- The only truly safe sex is no sex. If you can convince your kids to
- never have sex, great. Otherwise, I think it would be well for folks
- to concentrate on educating people rather than picking nits on verbiage.
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