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...peculiarly appropriate for Martin, a Wellesley alumnus, to explain the intricacies of modern-day relations between the genders to Harvard Dating seems easy enough, only three parts: food, entertainment and affection. Even Miss Manners saves the best for last. Harvard is relieved to know that phone calls after a one-night stand are not required but dismayed to learn that transportation back to Cambridge is also not mandatory...

Author: By L. JOSEPH Garcia, | Title: Behaving | 8/13/1982 | See Source »

...epidemic has clearly made married philanderers extremely wary. Few things cool extramarital ardor like the specter of passing on an incurable disease to a mate and then having to explain where it came from. A chemical engineer from New York knows how the one-night stand can go these days: on a business trip a beautiful woman invited him up to her room. He went, but was troubled by thoughts of herpes sores. He asked the lady outright. Her denial was not enough; he was impotent. "I wanted to go through with it," he confided to a friend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Scarlet Letter | 8/2/1982 | See Source »

...pass it on to everyone for vengeance until everyone had it and it became normal." Some people act out their fantasies of revenge. A Midwestern woman says she has infected 75 men in three years. Says a Philadelphia man who brags that he infected 20 women: "They were just one-night stands, so they deserved it anyway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Scarlet Letter | 8/2/1982 | See Source »

...problem should be demystified. It's just cold sores in the wrong place," says Paul cheerfully, if not entirely accurately. He is a New York real estate agent who is divorced. "I picked it up in 1974," he says, "on the only one-night stand in my life." He bolsters his self-esteem by telling himself, "Basically there are a lot of people out there as miserable as me." He has occasional bouts of depression, dabbles in herbal remedies and recently took out a personal ad in New York's weekly Village Voice seeking a woman with herpes. Aside from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Scarlet Letter | 8/2/1982 | See Source »

Many herpes sufferers think that it is not necessary to tell early in a relationship, or on one-night stands. The idea is to tell only when the relationship reaches a stage in which intimate matters come up naturally. Even then one may face rejection. A schoolteacher in Los Angeles developed herpes blisters on her genitals and legs a month before her scheduled wedding. Her fiancé, who had given her the disease, walked out. So did a later boyfriend. "Now I don't tell anybody, and I won't unless I'm having a serious relationship," she says. "What...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Scarlet Letter | 8/2/1982 | See Source »

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