In loving, living memory, John Melançon 1928 – 2007
Eight months later I finally have the words to say what I mean about having sex without a condom being not about trust.
Matters of life and death of other people are beyond trust.
I can trust you completely, I can trust you with my own life, but I cannot take a gun from you that you say is unloaded and squeeze the trigger with it pointed against someone else's head.
Life and death don't make the best analogies, but similarly, I cannot take infertility or birth control as clearing my need to not help bring life into the world without knowing what I'm doing.
With life, at least, there's something that can be done after the fact– simply taking responsibility.
And I was certainly aware of this, and by my life philosophy of expecting nothing, it was a possibility I w ad . (But yeah, it's better that I don't have a kid.)