I mean you're free to sleep with as many people as you want... but was anyone else bothered by the fact that she did it unprotected?
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Wow Priestly, please let me know when your true love leaves you.
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There were condoms when she did it with those three men?
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I'm thinking the play was written and presented in 1999, the story is set at the same time. So Donna's whole sex would have happened in the late 70s since Sophie 20 or whatever. Now you think why she would do it unprotected...
Btw, maybe she did it in a fit of passion with all three....do people think about getting a condom at that point of time? Just a thought.
A-ha! So you admit that believe in marriage is kind of like believing in Santa Claus!
This is a Greek fairy tale not reality-based, as we could see with the activity of the gods. This isn't an accurate depiction of any one period and seems to include parts of the hippie era, disco era, and the present day. I'm from the era pictured in the photos and I know more than one baby was conceived because of defective birth control--generally the pill, condom, or diaphragm. As Billy Connolly said, it was when penicillin ruled the world. It was the sexual revolution. She wasn't a sex addict. What a nasty idea! Sounds like something her creepy mother would say to her. She was young, falling in love, rebounding, and sowing her wild oats--what only guys were allowed to admit they did before women's lib! That's what a lot of people did back then--they had fun. Remember fun? Remember being immature and enjoying what wasn't wise but surely did feel good at the time? Remember experimentation and doing your own thing? Remember backpacking across Europe minus parental guidance or restrictions, loving the freedom? No, I guess nobody on this board does. As one radio station playing our oldies songs put it, "Sex, drugs, and rock and roll. The only one that won't kill you now is the music." It was a great time to be young. Hormones, high spirits, and rebellion. She was left with the baby and apparently cut off by her mother for her alleged sins no doubt including singing with her two wild friends, but it was a great month--three super guys, on a sun-drenched Greek isle.... It must have been something really special or they wouldn't have come for the wedding. Two of the three loved her. Nothing that amazing happened to me, alas, but I don't begrudge her having a wicked past to repent at leisure. :) She apparently then devoted herself to being a good mother and a responsible adult in beautiful Greece. If this were a Production Code era movie, she would have had to be punished for dot dot dot in her youth to teach people how evil that was. But she didn't seem to be suffering any more than a lot of people with a heavy mortgage, small business, and family.
skiddoos got it right. She was young, holidaying away from home in a beautiful, far away place and got carried away with the romance of it all. Sex addict..... my a**!! LOL.
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This movie is cheap, ruins the ABBA songs and famous actors were thrown in there to draw audience. It's a shame
shareI somewhat agree. Abba's main appeal back then was to barely teenage girls (gay men came later). It was a pretty sophisticated and high quality brand of bubblegum... the unsophisticated view of love (mostly as a contest, with winners and losers - falling in love was losing, getting tossed out was loosing - its kind of weird and masochistic, and might say something about the ultimate fate of the relationships in Abba, but it fits in pretty well with the world view of young adolescents. In this context, the Abba songs seemed more pervy than they probably deserve to be seen. For example, back then I imagined "Does your mother know" was about people ~16 and 20, not 20 and 60. Just because it's legal, doesn't make it not squeem inducing. As slick as they are as pop songs, they don't stitch up well together as a musical - it's more unbelievable than usual when people break into song... the transitions are awkward, when they bother with them at all.
It's sort of surprising that people accept the premise of the musical, and the movie... it's too adult for the original Abba audience. It's somewhat like if Betty's daughter was getting married, and she invited Jughead, Reggie and Archie to her wedding, unsure which one was her father.
The situations were contrived, and completely unbelievable. The acting was completely over the top. There wasn't a single person in the show who was likeable (the token gay guy was a little less detestable than average - and hey, he didn't die, like gay guys are supposed to in these wretched, manipulative hollywood movies.
the daughter had fish eyes, and acted (or perhaps was forced to act) like every smelly thing that flopped across the screen was the most wonderful, beautiful thing that ever happened. I could go through the rest of the cast, but why bother? Most people seem to like this sub-Plan9 disaster, so why bother? they are welcome to it.
In the 60's, more people used birth control pills more than condoms, and as most people know, they are like, 95% effective or something without condoms. Plus, in the 1940's and 1950's only a decade prior, there were laws on who could use condoms, for instance, only married couples.
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Yeah the pill was availabe in late 60s America, but in Military-Junta-governed Greece?
- A point in every direction is the same as no point at all.
it's a film/play...not a serious one at that...does it matter
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I don't care what you think, not when your thinking what THEY want you to think.
Back then STDs were less of a worry weren't they? She was probably on the pill and didn't take it quite right.
It was a bit dumb though.
but was anyone else bothered by the fact that she did it unprotected?
Up until the 90s when AIDS became a confirmed heterosexual killer I dare say a lot of people had unprotected sex. I traveled around Europe in the late 80s including the Greek Isles and well...
My heyday was the '60s through the early '80s, and I remember the Pill and traveling and the zipless *beep* as written about by Erica Jung. Ah, those were the days, my friend!
People who don't like dogs should be killed. - Simon Marchmont
Nobody knows if it was unprotected. We're just assuming!
shareMaybe she was protected, condoms break all the time, and they're not 100% safe, more like 97% safe, and that's not even counting the women that got abortions, so in reality they're like 90% safe. Maybe she used a condom, maybe birth control pills, who knows. But how could she know which one was the one that failed? It happens.
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That was longer than a heartbeat!
It is unlikely that 3 in a row broke on her. Since Donna says herself she has no idea who the Dad is it seems to indicate she did not use protection.
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I think people are taking the 3 men in one short period a bit to seriously.
The movie is a product of the European attitude and they are more liberal.
My goodness, in most movies people are always drinking to much which in real life that leads to tragic accidents, domestic abuse, etc. Or, smoking which leads to cancer etc. Ot, on TV sex the soap operas that operate on the premise that only lies and manipulation are the way to survive. Thats worse than 3 men in 3 weeks.
I thought the movie was charming. The singing awful, but I enjoyed the movie because I didn't have to view ill mannered yahoo's interacting. It was sweet, fun, and not crude.
Simple answer: this was in the 70's. Birth control was a very new idea and there wasn't near as much info on contraceptives as there is now.
Even with birth control being a very common thing and there being safe sex education in (intelligent) schools, there are still many "accidents" and much spreading of STD's still happening. But when Donna got pregnant I doubt anyone would have asked why she didn't use a condom cuz no one was really thinking it.
i don't know who suggested that was a sex addict but 3 men in 1 month doesn't make you a nymphomaniac. 3 men in a week and maybe several sessions throughout that week, possibly but that is a short lived nympho reign
shareYou wrote: "In the 70's, birth control was a very new idea and there wasn't near as much info on contraceptives as there is now".
I guess you only speak for the UK or the US here. Here in The Netherlands, birth control was on the rise since the 1950's and condoms, IUD's and pills were easily accepted and available from the 1960's. By the 1970's, sex education was common in virtually all schools for all children (except the most religious orthodox schools). Sex education even had its own tv series ('Open en bloot') on a public station (Nederland 1, VARA).
In spite of this 'liberal' mindset about sex, no other European country saw so few teen pregnancies, abortions, and STD's. That was something to be proud of.
In the past decades, with the influx of more conservative and 'prudish' immigrants in The Netherlands, we have seen the numbers of teen pregnancies, teen abortions and STD's gone up. Besides, there is the law of the handicap of a head start: the younger generation does not take contraception as seriously, because schools don't feel the need to offer sex education anymore, and people erroneously believe that STD's are under control.
In sum, when it comes to 'safe sex', conservative repression, secrecy and assurance are no effective alternatives to honesty, open-mindedness, and an alert attitude.