Here’s a fictional story that the Present Writer came up with. Things may get complicated as we’re going along, the Present Reader might want to have a drink before reading.

Governments and mass media and institutions and companies and some people pushed other people to take it.

There are people who took it when pushed to take it. There are other people who didn’t take it when pushed to take. Fair enough.

There are people who took it and when asked whether they took it, they say they did take it. There are people who didn’t take and, when asked, say they didn’t take. Fair enough.

There are people who took it and don’t care whether other people took it or not. There are people who didn’t take and don’t care whether other people took or not. Fair enough.

There are people who took it and think that they don’t want to get close to other people who didn’t take. There are people who didn’t take and don’t want to get close to other people who took. (It seems that there are no people who took and want to get close to people who didn’t take and vice versa.) Fair enough.

What it was that people took or didn’t take, I will not say. But everybody knows what I’m talking about.

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There are people who did or didn’t take and do or don’t care to get close to others who did or didn’t take but when it comes to having sex with another person, they do care if that person took or didn’t. This is not on the news. Fair enough.

There are people who took it and got certificates that show they took it. There are people who didn’t take it and got themselves fake certificates that show that they took it. Fair enough, arguably.

There are people who didn’t take it and got themselves the fake certificates and among those people there are those who, when asked, will admit that they didn’t take it. But also, there are those who didn’t take it and got themselves the fake certificates, but, when asked, won’t admit that they didn’t take it. This is complicated, but that’s just the beginning.

Now, what if there was a man, at a minimum just one man, who didn’t take it and doesn’t mind being close to people whether they took or didn’t take, even though he would a little bit prefer that they didn’t, but he would have sex only with a woman who didn’t take.

And because there are people who took it and now say that they didn’t, and because there are people who didn’t take, got themselves fake certificates, and, when asked, might not admit that they didn’t take, the man (who didn’t take it and didn’t get the certificate and who doesn’t want to have sex with any woman who took it), well, he has no choice but assume that all women who have certificates, be they real or fake certificates, took it. This is very complicated.

He would be a lonely man, probably. The conclusion the man makes is that casual sex is no longer. Can you see it?

Would anyone be able to understand how that man gets to that conclusion? If yes, could anyone see the good sense of that conclusion? And finally, could anyone see the absurd situation the man finds himself in, or is it only that man who has a rare disease of coming to the conclusion and seeing the situation in which he finds himself when he considers having or not having sex with a woman? In that situation, might he have no choice but the one choice that comes to him as a surprise: try to find out if she does or doesn’t have the certificate, and whether the certificate is real or fake doesn’t matter.

This may well be very complicated. But casual sex is no longer as long as she has the certificate.
Q.E.D.

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Thanks for reading my stuff. I kiss you on the mouth.

Tomasz Goetel
the Present Writer
Ibiza, Spain
27 January AD 2023

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