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"  Doesn&amp;#039;t breast-feeding work as contraception? Yes, but it will never catch on, because it&amp;#039;s too hard to fit in your wallet. Three conditions must be met for the lactational amenorrhea method (LAM), which exploits the natural infertility that occurs after childbirth, to work: the mother&amp;#039;s period has yet to return, the baby is less than six months old, and the baby is exclusively breast-feeding. That last one is tricky. If the baby has anything else -- a Sprite, some oysters, anything -- the effectiveness of LAM dwindles. &amp;quot;This is round-the-clock demand, both breasts,&amp;quot; says Dr. Vanessa Cullins of Planned Parenthood. It&amp;#039;s unrealistic for most, but it&amp;#039;s the hottest thing with devout Catholics right now. For Sheila Kippley, author of Breastfeeding and Natural Child Spacing: How Ecological Breastfeeding Spaces Babies, pregnancy and breast-feeding are &amp;quot;basically the same condition, except the baby&amp;#039;s in a different position,&amp;quot; a phrase I urge her to copyright if she hasn&amp;#039;t already. Ecological breast-feeding, as it&amp;#039;s called, has not three but seven standards (called &amp;quot;the Seven Standards&amp;quot;). Let&amp;#039;s let Sheila describe them: &amp;quot;The mother doesn&amp;#039;t use pacifiers or bottles, she sleeps with the baby for night feedings, she sleeps with the baby for a daily nap feeding,&amp;quot; and there are four more standards somewhere if you&amp;#039;re still interested.  How safe is it to have sex with a call girl nowadays? Of all the people doing it, they seem to be the most careful.  There are few things safer than sexual intercourse with a board-certified Nevada prostitute. Teela Sanders, sociologist and author of Paying for Pleasure, thinks &amp;quot;there&amp;#039;s a certain stigma attached to sex workers and their sexual health.&amp;quot; True, the bobbing syphilitic heads of the old neighborhood ladies haunt me still, but things have changed a lot since the seventies, and in Nevada, when they legalize a brothel, they legalize the shit out of it. The women are kept current on all disease-prevention information and receive excellent medical care. They, in turn, must regularly provide proof that they are, to quote Sanders, &amp;quot;checked and screened and fine.&amp;quot; (Well, checked and screened and free from infection, anyway.) All this special treatment hasn&amp;#039;t made Nevada brothel girls haughty -- no way! Sunset Thomas, frequent guest of this column, whose manager calls her &amp;quot;perhaps the world&amp;#039;s most famous legal courtesan, star of HBO&amp;#039;s hit series Cathouse, and the first adult-film star to work in Nevada&amp;#039;s legal brothel system,&amp;quot; has this to say: &amp;quot;We used to joke that the only safer sex than brothel sex was a certifiable monogamous relationship -- only, in one of those, you might die of boredom!&amp;quot; Generally, &amp;quot;indoor prostitutes,&amp;quot; legal or not, routinely use condoms and even gloves for hand jobs and dental dams for oral sex, which must account for the fact that prostitution is attracting so many former nurses and people who were, as Sanders says, &amp;quot;working in the caring profession anyway.&amp;quot; She&amp;#039;s heard lots of stories about sex workers &amp;quot;literally seeing STDs&amp;quot; on their male clients and advising them to get a checkup. So why don&amp;#039;t more states operate like this utopian state, this Nevada? Some blame the Femi-nitpickers. (I think we should stop equating them with Nazis, plus mine works better sonically.) They say policies like these &amp;quot;police women and their sexuality.&amp;quot; Now, I&amp;#039;ve long supported my local Sex Police and donated to their balls, but what remains clear is that whether you want to be a nurse or just look like one, the legal brothel is the way to go. And you can thank Sunset Thomas for that. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve been called the Rosa Parks of prostitution,&amp;quot; she says. &amp;quot;I blazed a trail.&amp;quot; Long may it blaze. It has, on occasion, in certain academic and bestiality circles, been suggested that you&amp;#039;re not so innocent yourself, John. It is John, isn&amp;#039;t it? &amp;quot;Because,&amp;quot; explains Sanders, &amp;quot;at the end of the day&amp;quot; (when most people have sex), &amp;quot;the onus is as much on the man to think about who he is having protected and unprotected sex with.&amp;quot; Guys, you heard her: You might have contracted an onus. Better have it looked at.  If a woman goes through an extreme dry spell, sexually speaking, is it possible for her hymen to grow back? Mrs. Reagan, you can still make me laugh! No, dear, your hymen is gone. Gone with the wind. Dr. Bruce K. Young, of NYU, coauthor of Miscarriage, Medicine &amp;amp;amp; Miracles (and I&amp;#039;m sure this hymen thing fits in there somewhere), says that sometimes menopausal or postmenopausal women have &amp;quot;difficulty with having relations,&amp;quot; because over time, if not used, the vaginal walls atrophy, shrinking the tissues, which makes everything colder and danker. &amp;quot;So then, if intercourse occurs,&amp;quot; says Dr. Young (italics mine), &amp;quot;the experience will be very much like having your hymen again.&amp;quot; I wouldn&amp;#039;t chance it. Got a sex question of your own? Send it to us via esquire.com/talk. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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