reasons for their obsession with what consenting adults get up to behind closed doors. --- BTW, Taiho--have you ever been...?! Let me rephrase Kimpatsu's thesis in a nastier tone. The infamous "double standards" of sexual "morality" arose from a male attempt to ensure that men were not stuck with having to help raise other men's children. Also, and this is the nasty part, I suspect a lot of men are insecure about their sexual "rating". Hence the preference for a woman who was a virgin at the time of marriage and who remained mono-androus thereafter. Such a woman has no basis for comparison of her man's sexual performance vis-a-vis other men. Now DNA testing makes it unnecessary, but many men actually seem uncomfortable with female sexuality when it is open and aggressive, sorry Tailho. That is probably the reason for the backlash, but cheer up ladies, it won't work. We owe our sexual liberation to science. Birth control devices freed us from having children unless we wanted them. DNA technology allows us to prove who the father of our child is. No longer can a man father a child and disclaim responsibility. Attempts to curb female sexuality may continue, but those attempts will be in vain. Nobody can put the clock back or re-bottle the genie [substitute cliche of choice] To paraphrase Dr Johnson "sex has many pains but virginity has no pleasures." People should learn to do what comes naturally and take sensible precautions to protect their health. In