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About abstinence
Originally Published: June 28, 2002
 
Dear Alice,

In your otherwise excellent response to WHERE CAN I FIND INFORMATION ABOUT ABSTINENCE? (June 21, 2002), you say, "Some sites... emphasize the worthlessness of condoms." I'm a professional copyeditor, and I was taken aback by the phrasing, which grammatically means that condoms *are* in fact worthless, but that "some sites" put a lot of stress on this, when it isn't necessary to. Surely you meant to say, "Some sites... claim that condoms are worthless," which connotes that they are not, in fact, worthless, even though these sites say they are. I hope you can correct this!

All the best.

 

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