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This post ties into my previous ones about penetration in a sex scene. When do the hero and heroine discuss protection? I just finished a book, which shall not be mentioned to protect the horribly guilty and awful, where the heroine is supposed to be a hip, urban chick. Yet not once in the entire book (and it's a long one), is protection or the lack thereof or the consequences mentioned. And since the book was a time-travel, there would be many consequences. Say like dying of syphillis or the clap or something. It totally ruined the book. I don't want to be a slave to the condom, but still, there has to be some mention of what happens when a man and a woman have sex without protection. Especially if the book is a contemporary or has contemporary characters. As a reader this issue bugs me! As an author, I think it is irresponsible. I read romance novels at the tender age of 12. I am quite lucky that my mom, an RN, was also a Red Cross approved AIDS educator. I knew the facts long before I wanted to, which came in handy in writing those romance novels back in jr. high and high school. *wink!* But many other young women aren't as lucky as I and might only get their facts from a book. Television certainly doesn't cover the condom issue, though the consequences of not using one are the subjects of countless dramas. I also like to read, and write, fantasy and science fiction. If a book is set in the future, I expect two things. 1) Birth control has to be mentioned. Why? Look at us now. We're dealing with global overpopulation. It isn't going to get any better unless, say, a meteor hits earth, and we're all starting over. In which case birth control is going to be mentioned probably from the standpoint of having to be fruitful and multiplying. 2) It damn well better be better than what we have today. This would be a rant in and of itself about today's birth control, and well, would probably also include way to much TMI. Suffice to say, I hope for the sake of women in the future, it's much better. When writing fantasy, I prefer to take the easy way out and have my heroine know herbal lore to keep her child free and disease free. I still like to have something mentioned. And yeah, you can probably quote places in my books where I didn't, but it's a subject, after having read this book, I'll be thinking about. As a reader -- what do you think? Mention it or don't. Is it an issue that will make you hurl a book at the wall and wish you hadn't spent your money? Or does it not bother you? Curious minds want to know. . .  
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