OK people, I have to get something off my chest here. My husband and I were watching an episode of <a href=”http://abc.go.com/primetime/privatepractice/index?pn=index”>Private Practic</a>e last week, and we concluded the show with our jaws on the floor. (For those of you who aren’t familiar with the show, it’s a spin-off of Grey’s Anatomy, starring Kate Walsh as Dr. Addison Montgomery. When Addison left Seattle Grace, she moved to Los Angeles to meet up with her old medical school friends Naomi (Merrin Dungey), a fertility specialist, and Sam (Taye Diggs) to put up their own private practice.)
So back to the topic, the reason why my husband and I were shocked at the end of the show was because two of the characters who were dating (Cooper and Charlotte) decided that it was time for them to take their overly-charged sexual relationship to the next level. Together, they decided that they would be exclusively monogamous only with each other. In the show, this “next step” was defined as the two of them taking an HIV test together and ditching the condoms after the results came back negative.
Not only did Cooper and Charlotte accept this scenario as a common thing in the relationship world, but so did their friends. In fact, Cooper’s friends were happy that he was “taking the next step” in the relationship and also interpreted ditching the condom as an act of commitment. In fact, this was such a big step in their relationship that Cooper and Charlotte were both extremely nervous about “taking off the condom” and practicing monogamous sex with each other.
Did I miss something? When I think of taking relationships to the next level, I think of adding in a sexual component at all, or maybe moving in with one another or (GASP) getting engaged. I commend the show’s characters for acting somewhat responsible in their sexual encounters, but I have to ask why wasn’t this a concern to begin with? Maybe this clueless newlywed is old fashioned, but when did monogamy become equated with bare-back humping? Is this really the way the rest of the world operates? Maybe I’m even more clueless than I thought…
OK people, I have to get something off my chest here. My husband and I were watching an episode of Private Practice last week, and we concluded the show with our jaws on the floor. (For those of you who aren’t familiar with the show, it’s a spin-off of Grey’s Anatomy, starring Kate Walsh as Dr. Addison Montgomery. When Addison left Seattle Grace, she moved to Los Angeles to meet up with her old medical school friends Naomi (Merrin Dungey), a fertility specialist, and Sam (Taye Diggs) to put up their own private practice.)
So back to the topic, the reason why my husband and I were shocked at the end of the show was because two of the characters who were dating (Cooper and Charlotte) decided that it was time for them to take their overly-charged sexual relationship to the next level. Together, they decided that they would be exclusively monogamous only with each other. In the show, this “next step” was defined as the two of them taking an HIV test together and ditching the condoms after the results came back negative.
Not only did Cooper and Charlotte accept this scenario as a common thing in the relationship world, but so did their friends. In fact, Cooper’s friends were happy that he was “taking the next step” in the relationship and also interpreted ditching the condom as an act of commitment. In fact, this was such a big step in their relationship that Cooper and Charlotte were both extremely nervous about “taking off the condom” and practicing monogamous sex with each other.
Did I miss something? When I think of taking relationships to the next level, I think of adding in a sexual component at all, or maybe moving in with one another or (GASP) getting engaged. I commend the show’s characters for acting somewhat responsible in their sexual encounters, but I have to ask why wasn’t this a concern to begin with? Maybe this clueless newlywed is old fashioned, but when did monogamy become equated with bare-back humping? Is this really the way the rest of the world operates? Maybe I’m even more clueless than I thought…
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CluelessMe.com is written by Nikki Flores, a clueless girl who lives in Cleveland, Ohio and blogs about all of her clueless life's adventures.
