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Comment author: Good_Burning_Plastic 05 January 2016 12:03:56AM *  0 points [-]

I suspect Clarity was thinking about unprotected sex with somebody they've already been in a stable monogamous relationship for a while (possibly partly because they want a baby), whereas polymathwannabe was thinking about something more like a one-night stand with a stranger. But if the latter is right, the dramatization ain't that unnecessary, at least in certain geographical locales.

Comment author: Lumifer 05 January 2016 01:09:15AM 0 points [-]

at least in certain geographical locales

In such geographical locales a lot of things, starting with just being there, tend to be a matter of life and death.