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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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
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...