“I want to tell you a terrific story about oral contraception. I asked this girl to sleep with me and she said 'No.”

— Woody Allen

Standup Comic (1999)
Context: A fast word about oral contraception. I was involved in an extremely good example of oral contraception two weeks ago. I asked a girl to go to bed with me, she said "no."

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