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Quote of the Evening
Michelle Cottle, on a Washington Post article on DC pharmacies placing their condoms behind locked doors to prevent shoplifting:
[I]n a piece about stores erecting contraceptive barriers … for people who have clearly already made the decision to have sex, this line of argument [abstinence-only] sounded even more absurd than usual.
Yes, the double pun was intentional (as she makes clear in the ellipses).
One Response to “Quote of the Evening”
The article is behind a registration wall, so I couldn’t read much of it, but this Michelle person does sound more than a bit loony on this one. If condoms (or anything else in the store) are being shoplifted, the store certainly has the right to try to prevent that, doesn’t it? Somehow, I really doubt the store managers got together and said “Hey, our stores are making way too much money off of condom sales. Maybe we should do something about that.” Quote of the evening, indeed!