PERSONALS PURIFIED
In the May 18, 1994, Calgary Sun business personals, one small ad stood out amidst such services as Erotica Video Exchange and Live XXX Shows and videos. Its message, “Bring home flowers, not STDs! For information, call 282-8411,” was penned and paid for by Pat Collins, a grandmother and sales manager from Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Disgusted with column after column of sex ads in the classifieds, Pat decided to fight back. With the support of her husband of forty-two years, Scott, she ran two different ads in the newspaper. And she did get responses. “One caller said, ‘I thought a condom was safe.’ Another asked, ‘What’s a person like me supposed to do?,'” Pat said. “I tried to encourage them to talk about their situation. Surprisingly, most were willing to honestly open up, to talk about how hard it was to have self-control.” It’s a subject Pat knows from personal experience; she and her husband, who met as teenagers, waited until marriage…
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