Lark could have kept on talking for another ten minutes, and Tony still would have been aghast enough to ask, "You don't know what a condom is?" Correcting him on the college thing almost made it worse, because now he was still thinking about school and had to admit, "That whole university population is suffering right now, faculty and students, you can't do that to them, every other way they have to unwind is not productive." It was then that it occurred to him, "Unless you're all women and that's part of the deal, you could be like nuns, I don't know."

Right, he was making tea. He set a cup at the edge of the fire and went back to looking for the strainer, still talking as he rattled around, "Do you not have STDs? I take back the medieval thing, that might be a kind of utopia."