Anyways, this story reminded me of an ugly tale I have of discrimination pertaining to numbers of sexual partners. I went into the campus health services center to seek birth control and wanted to go about it properly. I was told that I needed to have a full physical for this, and the doctor asked me a series of questions which in retrospect, I'm pretty sure he wasn't even legally allowed to ask me. He asked me how many partners I'd had among other questions – although he failed to ask me how long I'd been sexually active for. Upon hearing the numbers, he responded with "Don't you think that that's a bit much for a girl your age?" I was embarrassed and unsure how to respond to this. I was livid upon leaving the clinic, especially because this man was a doctor in a university campus clinic making women (and probably men) feel guilty about their sexual history. No one – not even someone with an M.D. – should be able to make you feel inferior, guilty or embarrassed about your sexual history.

The double standard still exists, I admit. But we should be able to recognize that it's not okay.