Talk:Unprotected sex

message: These two articles are basically on the same thing, bareback simply originates in gay slang, but has since crossed over, furthermore unprotected sex isnt a strong enough stand-alone, but it is a better more encyclopedic title, bareback/barebacking can be a redirect to unprotected sex. Qrc2006 12:09, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Notes

message: yes, merge per nom Qrc2006 12:10, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: merge

message: While not common usage in the general population, the fertility awareness community frequently uses the definition "no birth control" rather than "no condom".  This is because couples avoiding pregnancy with FAM only use birth control for a portion of the women's menstrual cycle; there is a need to distinguish between reliance on an external method (use of birth control) vs. reliance on the woman's infertility (unprotected sex).  In any merge, please retain this secondary usage of the term. Lyrl    Talk     Contribs   12:49, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Comment

message: Unprotected sex is the more generic phrase, barebacking is just a subset of it. Mathmo Talk 04:53, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yep, I agree. Plus barebacking appears to be more concerned with homosexual anal sex whereas the term "unprotected sex" mostly refers to heterosexual sex especially when considering the contraction of HIV/AIDS. So this article should be kept separate and expanded beyond stub-class. Ekantik talk 06:18, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Barebacking should be combined into unprotected sex 

message: Whoever posted the topic about not merging is incorrect. Barebacking has nothing specifically to do with "anal sex" just because the word "back" is in it. It's simply slang for sexual intercourse without a condom.
I say merge these articles as they are very similar. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Tomfarvour (talk • contribs) 00:21, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Barebacking is not specific anal sex 

message: whats wrong with the image of unprotected sex?Ah0000000ga (talk) 02:14, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: First, photographic images of people having sex are not used on Wikipedia in general.  Paintings and line drawings are preferred, as in sexual intercourse.  Second, the image did not add information or help make more understandable the information in the article.  Contrast this to an article like pre-ejaculate where an image is arguably more descriptive than words. LyrlTalk     C   03:24, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  image 

message: I think that penicillin might be a more sourceable example of a drug which can be transmitted through sexual contact.  WhatamIdoing (talk) 21:01, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't know that a specific drug is going to be a likely navigation target for someone who ends up at this page.  The point of a disambiguation page is to get a reader to the page they're looking for, not to define the term.  Maybe Transmission (medicine) would be a more appropriate target for that line? LyrlTalk     C   13:28, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I added some relevant details to thalidomide.  But I take Lyrl's point against Unprotected sex as a disambiguation page. --Una Smith (talk) 04:46, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: You may take my point that way, but I did not intend it that way.  My intention was to propose changing the last line to Sex without protection from sexual transmission of an allergen or teratogen. LyrlTalk     C   23:13, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Drugs