Comments on: Don’t tell me – I don’t want to know http://cblpi.org/senseandsexualityblog/2009/09/dont-tell-me-i-dont-want-to-know/ Sun, 23 May 2010 03:46:09 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: betoma http://cblpi.org/senseandsexualityblog/2009/09/dont-tell-me-i-dont-want-to-know/comment-page-1/#comment-40 betoma Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:43:44 +0000 http://cblpi.org/senseandsexualityblog/?p=21#comment-40 The issues this post raises are about safe sex and the possibility of transmitting STDs. Other posters have eloquently questioned those arguments. But that doesn't even consider the possibility that people could have anal sex in long term relationships, after they've been tested for diseases and are sure everything is safe. If you're not risking an "incurable disease," what is the risk supposed to be? Anal sex with someone you just met is a disease risk, but that hardly proves that "the rectum is an exit, not an entrance." To draw an analogy, many committed couples go condom-free and have unprotected sex all the time in order to try for a baby. That same behavior would be terribly risky if you tried it with all the guys you meet at the local dive bar. By your logic, then, it's terribly unnatural to have vaginal intercourse to get pregnant, & no one should ever do it. The issues this post raises are about safe sex and the possibility of transmitting STDs. Other posters have eloquently questioned those arguments. But that doesn’t even consider the possibility that people could have anal sex in long term relationships, after they’ve been tested for diseases and are sure everything is safe. If you’re not risking an “incurable disease,” what is the risk supposed to be? Anal sex with someone you just met is a disease risk, but that hardly proves that “the rectum is an exit, not an entrance.”

To draw an analogy, many committed couples go condom-free and have unprotected sex all the time in order to try for a baby. That same behavior would be terribly risky if you tried it with all the guys you meet at the local dive bar. By your logic, then, it’s terribly unnatural to have vaginal intercourse to get pregnant, & no one should ever do it.

]]> By: Jane http://cblpi.org/senseandsexualityblog/2009/09/dont-tell-me-i-dont-want-to-know/comment-page-1/#comment-38 Jane Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:30:06 +0000 http://cblpi.org/senseandsexualityblog/?p=21#comment-38 I wonder if any of the ladies who responded know of women, married or not, who became pregnant while using condoms? Of course they do - we all know women who have created babies while using condoms-both now and 20 years ago when Surgeon General Koop said they just don't do the trick. Please use common sense and think a little more deeply about this. Jane I wonder if any of the ladies who responded know of women, married or not, who became pregnant while using condoms? Of course they do – we all know women who have created babies while using condoms-both now and 20 years ago when Surgeon General Koop said they just don’t do the trick. Please use common sense and think a little more deeply about this. Jane

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