Word: partnering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Then how do you protect yourself and your partner? Sex educators often speak of a spectrum of risk and encourage individual to engage in the lowest risk activities they perceive as reasonable for themselves. At one end of the spectrum is abstinence, which is the behavior of choice among Harvard student, whether it be because of moral, religious or health reason. Abstinence is, in fact, the only sure-fire way of protecting oneself from infection by STIs...
...every sexually active individual to empower themselves in negotiations of sexual behavior. For the sake of your physical as well as emotional health, take all the precautions that you need to make yourself as comfortable with the encounter as you can be. These precautions include communicating with your partner--discuss your and your partner's sexual histories and be honest. At the same time, for the sake of your own health and safety, take care in trusting your partner, especially a new one. Do not hesitate or be afraid to say no--many people realize too late the consequences...
...JOINING IS NETWORKING Mingling with people who have formed an association around a common interest is as old a custom in job seeking as in politics. But be sure you are really willing to get involved. Consider Lawrence Tabas, 45, partner in the Philadelphia law firm of Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel LLP, whose passion for local politics helped land him his current position. Tabas was running as a Republican for a city-council seat in 1991 when the chairman of his current law firm, Marvin Weinberg, a staunch Democrat who was backing Tabas' opponent, took notice of his vigorous, well...
...someone who believes that the relationship narrative is central to much of great literature, then you, gentle reader, are suddenly spoiled for choice. In the unhappy-families category, autobiographical division, British novelist and screenwriter Hanif Kureishi bares all about his decision to leave his partner in the fictional Intimacy (Scribner; 118 pages; $16), while New York City journalist John Taylor skips the novelizing but tells a strikingly similar story in Falling: The Story of One Marriage (Random House; 225 pages...
...woman who has ever lived with a man will be particularly dismayed by Intimacy. A claustrophobic little trap of a novel, it recounts one night in the life of a screenwriter named Jay as he prepares to abandon Susan, his partner of six years and the mother of their two young sons. As Jay goes through the rituals of an ordinary evening at home, he also meditates on the history of their relationship and waits until Susan goes to sleep so he can pack his bags. "It is the saddest night," the novel begins, "for I am leaving...