The scarlet number

I can't believe someone actually writes stuff like this in this day and age, establishing a number (of sexual encounters) past which women would be considered loose or immoral. I mean, I could see this stuff in mainstream print maybe 30 years ago. But we've actually entered a new millennium and *this* is what people are getting hung up about. Yes, sexual health and responsibility are issues for every woman, at any age ... but establishing moral judgements for something that is really no one else's business in the first place!! Grrr. That's not the way to go about it, folks.

Emotional and physical responsbility is the issue, not dated ideas about how many sexual partners a woman should have by the time she's 20, 30, 40, 80 years old.

Thanks to Elise for that pointer.