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Relationships | August 14, 2009

John Edwards: a case of the missing condom

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Rielle Hunter
  AP Photo/ Chuck Olsen (Rielle Hunter)

What’s going on with sex these days?  Rielle Hunter whispers, “You are so hot” and John Edwards fathers her child.  Condoms anyone?  Then there is Rick Pitino accused of paying for an abortion.  Was she pregnant?  Do we know?  Condoms anyone?

Let’s not even talk about Mel Gibson’s girlfriend.  And what about Jude Law’s new baby? Excuse me – do any of you know how to condom-up?

Companies spend millions of dollars on campaign ads  and what messages do young people get from Hollywood and politicians?  Adultery and sex – without condoms, of course.

Tinseltown gets behind all of these campaigns to stamp out AIDs, prevent STDs, reduce the number of unwanted pregnancies – but what is the real message? Do as we say, but not as we do. 

In Hollywood, people take chances.  Why?  I think the collective response might be: "We are heros.  We have unprotected sex.  We like making love-children.  We like committed, but unmarried."

As for Rielle Hunter and John Edwards, as I wrote in an earlier piece: Husband snatching facts: why Reille Hunter is angry at Elizabeth Edwards  it appears that she believed she had a future with John. And when she came to grips with reality and felt she was not treated fairly in Elizabeth’s book, she decided upon revenge – the paternity test. (Though today we know that she knew, John was the father of her child.)  John Edwards: new baby, new Elizabeth heartbreak 

Perhaps for a fleeting moment or two John did have feelings for Reille, maybe he still does.  And we would like to believe that she had feelings for him – but we don’t know. In fact, we never know what other people experience behind closed doors. However, in this day and age, a “love child” is rarely a mistake – it is nearly always deliberate or deceptive.
 
As for the adults fathering love children and the women luring other women’s husbands – through the great law of karma, what goes around comes around.
 

As for condoms, I know, guys hate condoms. But here is what our friends from The Frisky tell us in Girl Talk: The Condom Commandments:

This might come as a shocker to most guys: Women hate condoms, too! We think they feel weird and clinical! For this reason, it is particularly hard to be put in the position of “policewoman” in the bedroom. Still, we know we have to because, well, STDs and accidental pregnancies are scary.

 Isn't it time we all take the message seriously and condom-up?

Another piece today in line with my "Condom-up" ranting, this from Tinamarie Bernard: The unprotected pickle: politics, power, pregnancy, and absentee condoms (muddled musings)

Copyright 2009 Rita Watson

 

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Rita Esposito Watson writes about love, lies, commitment and sex for both her syndicated blog at www.ritawatson.com and the Providence Journal. She...

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  • james 2 years ago
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    why do people like rita always act like its impossible to get pregnant if you use a condom.

    just because edwards might be the father that automatically means

  • james 2 years ago
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    sorry msg got cut off automatically means he didnt cover up

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