katl, all is true, and is the risk all people take when having sexual relationships with any others - including those they are married to. Put him down, you don't know where he's been. The only way to avoid risk of STDs at all is to live a life of total asexuality, and you might be unlucky then. People don't and won't do that. People have affairs. That's a GOOD thing, because sexuality is good. There are risks, there are risks about everything in life.

I don't approve of the use of prostitutes myself, but many would say that's because I'm too mean to pay. It does increase the risk, especially if precautions are not taken, but unless you know a lot about Oaten than I do, you don't know exactly what he was doing.

A climber exposes his children to the risk of sudden bereavement. A driver may well be risking having his loved ones burned alive. Someone selfishly keeping themselves alive using powerful drugs risks a small child taking those drugs inadvertently. I know one mother whose small child ate a whole month's supply of contraceptive pills.

I think a blue- nosed moralising approach is more suitable for the pews and pulpits of the Wee Free kirk, and I bet even the Meenister is having it away on the QT when he goes for those trips to Edinburgh.

What did someone say about chucking stones?