To my daughter, who occasionally lurks here: Don't even think about it. 
Posted on 08/15/2007 4:35:21 PM PDT by fanfan
When Claire Thomas saw the name "Dan" flash up on her mobile, she felt a flutter of excitement. She'd met the handsome 24-year-old on a girls' holiday to Crete only a few weeks earlier, and recalling the passionate fling they'd enjoyed on her final night, she was convinced he was ringing to ask if they could continue their summer romance.
Not for a moment did she anticipate the bombshell that followed.
Dan, a dark-haired charmer who'd declared he was "smitten" with Claire, casually announced that in fact he'd always had a girlfriend.
Then, for good measure, he added that he also had the sexually transmitted infection chlamydia. It was not the kind of holiday souvenir Claire had intended to bring home.
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So sad.
But he was a fungii to be with.
LOL, Martin!
Thanks.
What shocked me weeks back was a post including the bit of info that something like 1 out of 4 of both sexes is infected with one of the common STDs. I would not want to be part of the dating game these days.......
Me neither.
Nice to see things haven’t changed in 20 years.
My daughter, on the other hand, guards her drink carefully when she is out and will not drink it if she has stepped away from it or did not have someone watching it. Sad to have to be that way.
I wonder if people like this have parents who read the newspaper.
Probably not.
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Don't you just love the mothers of these sweeties who would be really distressed to know their babies had "unprotected sex?" Like using a condom makes everything ok as well as "safe."
What foolish bimbos! I hope they all live long enough to regret their actions.
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Nothing new here and it is more than just the “middle class.”
Back when Natty was a young, single, Naval Officer, he hazily (too much sun, dontcha know) recalls time spent in numerous Christian Science Reading Rooms (yea, that’s the ticket) in ports across the Med, “researching” (ahem) British, German, and Scandanavian young ladies on holiday.
It was absolutely “remarkable” (that’s the word for it.)
If I recall the data correctly, the demographic would have been properly classified as “upper middle class to wealthy.”
Natty also clearly remembers when the Air Wing Flight Surgeons got their first studies and reports on what was later identified as AIDS. Enshrined in the “Quotable Quotes Log” were the immortal words: “Gentlemen, I think the PCOD was somewhere around 1979.”
Fortunately, most of us survived and settled down.
I freely concede to those who serve today that the military is much more challenging professionally (and “recreationally”) than it was back in the day.
I’m not surprised.
As I posted earlier, I was torn about posting this, but ultimately, I think it was the right thing to do.
This kind of stuff needs to be brought to the light, and discussed.
It is probably similar to the experiences that all too many American and Canadian college students have in Florida and Cancun over spring break.
To my daughter, who occasionally lurks here: Don't even think about it.
When I was seventeen
It was a very good year
It was a very good year for small town girls
And soft summer nights
Wed hide from the lights
On the village green
When I was seventeen
When I was twenty-one
It was a very good year
It was a very good year for city girls
Who lived up the stair
With all that perfumed hair
And it came undone
When I was twenty-one
When I was thirty-five
It was a very good year
It was a very good year for blue-blooded girls
Of independent means
Wed ride in limousines
Their chauffeurs would drive
When I was thirty-five
But now the days grow short
Im in the autumn of the year
And now I think of my life as vintage wine
>from fine old kegs
>from the brim to the dregs
And it poured sweet and clear
It was a very good year
Because if you do, my maniac FRiend from Canada will come south to kick your butt home, before you even know what happened.
;-)
It’s too bad that they don’t have more pride in themselves.
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