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“I’ve decided that I’m not going to fuck or get fucked without two condoms,” said Richard, a 31-year-old community activist. “But there have been times when I’ve deviated from my standard a little. There have been times when I’ve let one of the condoms go.” Richard told me the times he had used only one condom were when he was embarrassed about letting a sexual partner know his safer-sex standards. “I felt it might be perceived as too weird, too reactionary, just like people used to worry about proposing one condom.”
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Robyn M. Dawes, Rational Choice in an Uncertain World (San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1988), p. 29.
The passage Tucker referred to is from Shakespeare’s Henry V, act V, scene ii, where Henry first addresses an interpreter and then Katharine herself: King Henry. It is not a fashion for the maids in France to kiss before they are married, would she say?. O Kate, nice customs curtsy to great kings. Dear Kate, you and I cannot be confined within the weak list of a country’s fashion. We are the makers of manners, Kate, and the liberty that follows our places stops the mouth of all find-faults.
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Johnston, W.I. (1995). Deciding What’s Unsafe. In: HIV-Negative. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6106-8_18
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