Sex sex sex! Ha, made you look!

[sineala]

I finished the 70s lesbian book, and it was pretty awesome and occasionally cringeworthy. In addition to learning that butches are evil destroyers of the sisterhood and male chauvinist pigs, I learned that the first big gay bar raid (in the 50s), which was big enough to get the ACLU defending the arrested people, happened in my district of my

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Sex sex sex made me look

[fiatlouis]

The truth is that the great majority of Lesbians and/or heterosexual women have never seen a dildo.
I don't understand why they use "and/or" in that sentence. If they are saying that most women haven't seen a dildo, and don't use it, shouldn't it just be "and"?
Also, considering that our generation grew up in the era of AIDS, and all of my friends have been pretty concerned about the possibility of STIs, I continue to be amazed at how focused college sex ed classes are on pregnancy, and pregnancy prevention, to the exclusion of STIs. I mean, I think STI's are pretty important, especially considering the amount of "hooking up" on campuses, not to mention that fact that accidental pregnancy is really not a big issue in the queer community. I just don't understand.

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[sineala]

I was wondering about that while I was typing it out. I don't understand it either.

The sex fair did have a table from the Health Center that had STI-related info, but they seemed to be not all that popular. (Neither was the queer table, so there goes the people who don't have to worry about pregnancy.) I never had a college sex ed class so I wouldn't know if they focus on pregnancy. It does seem a little weird that they wouldn't also worry about STIs, but maybe they can only worry about one thing at a time?

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[fiatlouis]

Well, my experience with the various sex ed programs on the UCSC campus, and a very limited amount of experience in grad school, was that the focus was "all possible forms of birth control". Now, of course, this included a discussion of condoms, both male and female, and the ubiquitous "condoms are the only form of contraception that also protects against STI's", but then they go on to talk all about oral contraceptive pills (which they love, because. . . I don't know why. Well, I guess because the woman is in charge, which is valid), and IUDs, and Depo-Provera, and the diaphragm, and on and on. And I don't remember them talking much about "of course, if you are not in a long-term monogamous relationship where both partners have been tested". I guess the wory is that pretty much all men have sperm, but not all men have STI's, so that's what they want to worry about.