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...Soon after, she suffered severe menstrual cramps and a pelvic infection. Issler eventually turned to the diaphragm, but she found its use messy and inhibiting. Now 33 and living in North Hollywood, Calif., the working mother of one relies uneasily on a combination of the rhythm method and the condom. "Birth control is a very important decision, but also a very frustrating one," she says. "The options are so limited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health & Fitness: Birth Control: Vanishing Options | 9/1/1986 | See Source »

...small that "the vast majority of users will experience only the benefits." But many women are wary. The most popular birth control is now sterilization. One-third of sexually active women are either sterilized or have partners who are. Another choice is the sperm barrier, especially the condom. Its sales have increased dramatically, mainly because of the fear of sexually transmitted diseases, particularly AIDS and herpes. No longer hidden behind drugstore counters, condoms are openly displayed on self-service racks. The customers have changed too. Today women buy at least a third of all condoms, and they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health & Fitness: Birth Control: Vanishing Options | 9/1/1986 | See Source »

...earliest and most enduring successes has been Jean-Louis Palladin. In 1979, after ending his partnership in a two-star restaurant in Condom, France, he went to Washington to cook at the Watergate Hotel, in an intimate setting named for him, Jean-Louis. He is a master at game and sweetbread dishes, and his soups and sauces based on purees of sweet peppers are seductively silken. Such enticing food enthralled an audience that included President Reagan, who celebrated his 70th birthday at Jean-Louis and thanked the chef for immigrating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food: Have Toque, Will Travel | 8/25/1986 | See Source »

...space opera, and Howard battles a scientist (Jeffrey Jones, funny against all odds) whose body is invaded by a giant lobster-scorpion space troll. Moviegoers who are in search of a porno Zoo Parade may enjoy the bedroom tryst in which Howard's human sweetie (Lea Thompson) discovers a condom in his wallet, snuggles up and asks, "You think I might find love in the animal kingdom?" More fastidious viewers are advised to purchase a Daffy Duck videocassette...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Love in the Animal Kingdom the Fly | 8/18/1986 | See Source »

...Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III, commenting about a late-night condom delivery service started by six freshmen. Upon the recommendation of the dean, the so-called Spermbusters closed up shop--after supplying only six contraceptives in two nights to needy Harvard students (October...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Quotable Quotes | 1/29/1986 | See Source »

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