[The Unnamed Chick]

About half way through this I wanted to slap this guy. How dare this guy try to teach people my age (17) and younger that any kind of pre-marital sex can be really, honestly, 100% safe? UGH!

I searched to see if this was posted anywhere else and I couldn't find it, used all kinda of keywords that should fit. So if it was already posted... SORRY! : )

[Keith in Iowa]

Lust is OK - just don't act on it...

[tet68]

Dear Roger,
Next time please LICK the envelope closed.
Signed the Editors.

[Question_Assumptions]

If they built up this straw man any larger, it would spontaneously burst into flames and kill thousands.

[madprof98]

Libby had a talk show called "The Pleasure Dome" on a local music station here in Atlanta, 99X. Drunken kids would call in and sound anguished about various sexual things they had supposedly done--"I had sex with my college roommate last night"--and Libby would chuckle and assure them it was all normal and fine. (But girls with that unfortunate problem girls have were referred to Planned Parenthood for help.) I think the station has replaced him with old Green Day tunes.

[Reaganesque]

Politicians supporting repressive laws affecting sex and sex education have yet to learn that no one can legislate sexual morality.

Except, of course, for SJC judges in Massachusetts.

[Paul Atreides]

Methinks this is another member of the light-loafer crowd.

[RightWingAtheist]

He's nothing if not honest. The pro-condom/sex ed Left cares less about people's health and security than encouraging mindless, self-centred hedonism.

[joesnuffy]

women's reproductive choicesobjective sex education, sexually explicit depictions and gay and lesbian expression are all under vicious attack.

Oh no not the infamous vicous 'verbal' attack?..... I imagine ABORTION is the so called reproductive choice?

[Old Professer]

I know from where this author speaks:

I have three dogs; a papa dog, a mama dog and one of their puppies.

When the mama dog first came to live here she was a stray that had wandered onto a friend's property and he could not keep her so we brought her home.

When she met Patch (the papa dog) it was lust at first sight, for unbeknownst to us she was just going into heat.

We kept her in diapers and kept them apart for almost the whole time, but alas one day a man came to my door to talk business and Aussie (the mama, AKA Hussy) took advantage of my preoccupation and pushed through the latched but unbolted door and seduced Patch with a passion the likes of which I've never seen since (she's "fixed" now); he gallantly rose to the occasion and she had the audacity to yelp as love had it's way; try as I might I could not separate them, so engrossed were they in their pleasure and the eternal mission to bring forth..., shrugging my shoulders, I turned to my visitor and said, "Aren't they just like us?"

[Bonaparte]

"We know from research that homosexuality is largely a genetic predisposition, certainly not a choice."

The Gay Gene: Going.. going... gone"

Liars at the S-PI? Who woulda thunk it?

[Billthedrill]

...the federal government is trying to make erotic pleasure frightening by denying accurate information about condoms and other ways to prevent AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases (STDS).

This makes absolutely no sense at all. (1) The federal government isn't denying information to anyone, it simply isn't subsidizing its transmission as much as it used to; (2) accurate information about all of those items is frightening, and should be. There is no such thing as "safe" sex, the act is intimate, unifying, and inherently risky because of that. There's nothing wrong with this, but its hazards are what courtship and marriage were designed to protect against long before the advent of antibiotics and effective (more or less) prophylactics.

It is a disservice to the young to pretend otherwise for political purposes. There are physical and emotional risks over and above pregnancy that are not met by condoms, diaphrams, and dosing growing bodies with endocrine system modifiers. Telling them "go ahead and do it, we'll take the pregnancy problem away and you can deal with the rest" is a copout, not a program.

[lilylangtree]

"responsible lust" --oxymoron!

[Reactionary]

Responsible lust.

Leave it to liberals to make passion and "lust" into just another calculation involving health and well being.

These people are about as inspiring as prison guards.

[John Valentine]

It's obvious that this person is trying very hard to say something coherent.

Inspite of the effort, however, the attempt failed utterly.

[Dan Evans]

If they want get kids to use condoms they should ban them for people under 18. Then evey boy will have one in his wallet just like in the fifties.

[workerbee]

It is time to once again "make love, not war."

Oh gag, did he actually say this? The whole time I'm reading this tripe, I'm thinking "is this guy pining for his lost 60's youth or what?" Yeeeacchhh!! What a big bowlful lies, distortions and paranoia.

[dangus]

By definition, if you're worried about condoms, abortions, AIDS, etc., your lust is not responsible lust.

By the way, EROTICISM is frequently healthy, but lust is always evil. By definition, lust means *excessive* or misplaced desire. ("A lust for gold" is greed, not commonsense responsibility; "a lust for war" is not self-defense, but beligerance.) It is one of the seven deadly sins. The slack-jaw columnist feels pontifical enough to decide morality in the country but is ignorant enough to not know what lust means. (Granted, the misuse of the word "lust" is getting very common.)

[squidly]

women's reproductive choices

Is that one of the current euphemisms for abortion?