Redefining terms

That was the case for one 24-year-old woman in San Francisco, who recently learned she has one of the high-risk types of HPV….

"I was scared, sad, disappointed and definitely ashamed. It seemed unfair that I should have it when I’ve had relatively few partners," says the young woman, who’s been sexually active for eight years and had four monogamous sexual partners, including her current boyfriend of two years.

	Jester Hat Tip:	Jill Stanek

"Monogamous sexual partners" is surely the oxymoron of the year. Serial fornication is now called monogamy. Though it makes sense since serial adultery is now called divorce and remarriage.

Wikipedia says: Monogamy is the custom or condition of having only one mate. The word monogamy comes from the Greek word monos, which means one or alone, and the Greek word gamos, which means marriage or union.