Comments on: So Whose Fault Is It?

By: Glynnis Kirchmeier

Glynnis Kirchmeier — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 06:52:59 +0000

@Chris Van Vechten,
You missed my point. My point was that sexually transmitted infections are a risk of sexual activity. None of the methods listed protect against sexually transmitted infections; they only protect against pregnancy. Ergo, they are not, in and of themselves, “safe” sex methods, because without complimentary condom use, they do NOTHING to protect against disease. These are, I repeat, only alternatives to condoms insofar as pregnancy risk, not disease, so they are not safer sex by themselves.

By: Jen Drake

Jen Drake — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 21:39:45 +0000

I read the homework assignment, do I now get my 50 points extra credit? Dude, that was a long history lecture!

By: Jen Drake

Jen Drake — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 21:35:51 +0000

Favorite quote: “voting is just one of those things responsible people do; like saving 10% of every paycheck or never having sex without a condom.”

By: Jen Drake

Jen Drake — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 21:35:29 +0000

@Glynnis Kirchmeier:

GLYNNIS, YOU ARE SO RAD! haha! Givin’ Chris the smackdown! Booyah!

yes, chris, 7 pm. I’m even opting to skip a portion of class time to go to this.

By: Chris Van Vechten

Chris Van Vechten — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 19:59:25 +0000

@Glynnis Kirchmeier, There are 22 alernatives to condoms on that list (including abstinence). I am perhaps wrong to say that they are all “safe” (certainly the pull-out is not) but they all have value.

I admit you’re the expert on this, so I will defer.

By: Glynnis Kirchmeier

Glynnis Kirchmeier — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 19:21:55 +0000

Now that I’ve read the rest of it: interesting. I feel like your love of history and grasp of where we have come from, though, is one of the more obvious influences on your attitudes toward voting and so forth, given what you’ve said in conversation.

By: Glynnis Kirchmeier

Glynnis Kirchmeier — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 19:11:31 +0000

Chris, don’t be dumb. Pregnancy is not the only or even the primary risk of sex. A sponge won’t stop HIV or herpes; only the plastic will do that.

Seriously, what the hell? The “safer sex” options in the link are ONLY valid as safe sex IF both partners share their test results before having sex AND they get retested and share those every six months. That is the ONLY time that one can say the only risk of sex is pregnancy, and that mitigating pregnancy risk alone is “safer sex.”

When you say something as flippant as that, how do you not expect me to give you a smackdown?

By the way, you’re coming to the Babeland workshop tonight. Jen and I will make you.

Sheesh.