There are limits to "being a good sport," beyond which it starts to reflect poorly on one's judgment. I believe the woman in that story crossed that limit.
Pulling back is NOT an effective method of prophylaxis!
A few years back I worked for a company that ran a lot of reproductive health clinical trials. A particular study was on emergency contraception and, logically, one of the collected datapoints was the reason for needing EC. One of the available options was "withdrawal failure," a somehow separate category from "no birth control used." The phrase made me chuckle: "I tried to pull it out, but it's just so damn long."
There are limits to "being a good sport," beyond which it starts to reflect poorly on one's judgment. I believe the woman in that story crossed that limit.
Posted by Adam Kotsko | Link to this comment | 06-13-05 12:50 PM
How many people looked at the capitalization on the post title and thought this was by Labs? Just me, huh?
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 06-13-05 1:00 PM
I did think it would confuse you, and briefly considered capitalizing it all, but it was from the page, so...
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 06-13-05 1:01 PM
There are limits to "being a good sport," and Ogged brushed up against those limits, before pulling back, thank heavens.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 06-13-05 1:09 PM
Pulling back is NOT an effective method of prophylaxis!
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 06-13-05 1:16 PM
The way Ogged does it, it is. (Ref: first parenthesis.)
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 06-13-05 1:18 PM
Tremble is awesome in its self-loathing. Nice link.
Posted by FL | Link to this comment | 06-13-05 1:22 PM
Pulling back is NOT an effective method of prophylaxis!
A few years back I worked for a company that ran a lot of reproductive health clinical trials. A particular study was on emergency contraception and, logically, one of the collected datapoints was the reason for needing EC. One of the available options was "withdrawal failure," a somehow separate category from "no birth control used." The phrase made me chuckle: "I tried to pull it out, but it's just so damn long."
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 06-13-05 1:23 PM