"Safe Sex" by Wollstonecraft (an285729@anon.penet.fi). The girl is hot for the boy. They have engaged in mutual oral sex, but the girl is still a virgin. She doesn't want to get pregnant. He shows up with a condom. With no further reason to say no, she accepts his cock inside her; but in the heat of passion they forget to use the condom. Too late; she's pregnant; they get married. Five years later she tries it just one more time with another man. Ooops; she's pregnant; they get divorced.

The author describes this and the preceding two stories as a "variation on a theme." One way to state that theme is to say that it's a good idea to decide on a set of rules ahead of time and then to live your life in such a way that you won't deviate from these rules by accident. In other words, if you're going to make decisions that will radically change your way of life, you might want to try to make those decisions on purpose - not by default. My mother taught me the same lesson when I was a teenager. This version is more interesting than the way my mother tried to teach me that message - and more likely to be convincing to a teenager. Oddly enough, my mother's sermon would be acceptable in churches, whereas holy people would like to ban these stories from the Internet. Go figure.

The stories are NOT simply sermons or parables. The sex in them is graphic and erotic; but anybody who thinks at all about these plots is likely to conclude that the girl came out behind on each of the exchanges. These stories make that point better than most moral lectures. I was going to suggest using stories like these to enlighten teenagers; but the better idea would be to let kids know that they exist and then to forbid them to read "this kind of trash." This would insure that the kids would read them and possibly gain some useful insights.