Perhaps we should also have been taught that responsibility for safe sex is not solely the female preserve – right down to putting on a condom for a man. Is it beyond the realms of reason to expect that if a man wants to have sex with you, he is able to summon up enough energy and commitment to unwrap the packet and put the condom on using his own fair hands? Or are we destined forever to be treated as concubines in the service of our superior male bedfellows, who do us the erotic favour of penetration?