Your Response Worried Me

Question:

I have been reading your responses to questions for about a year.  I appreciate the advice you give to all writers.  Your response to the Without a Condom email worried me, it seems like this was a teachable moment to get the writer go get some reliable birth control she is responsible for.  Although a condom is better than nothing, it certainly isn’t a fool proof method of birth control

Phyllis replied:

You’re absolutely right.  A nurse or doctor or Planned Parenthood would have good advice about birth control.  The question I printed was only part of a very long letter, most of which concerned the relationship with the boyfriend.  I had answered the reader personally, but chose a small part of her letter to post on the fan mail page.