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 "Hey, you wanna party?" It's an innocent enough come-on. And it could mean almost anything, depending upon who's doing the asking. If the inquirer is a swinger, it means "Would you like to have sex with me? And possibly my spouse, girlfriend and our hot neighbor?" If it's a drug dealer - or even just a recreational drug user - it could mean "How 'bout a joint/hit of E/coke/etc.?" which may or may not include actually partying with said inquirer. Well, in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, an unsuspecting gentleman mistakenly assumed a variation on the former and wound up under arrest for a variation on the latter.  Julio Blanco, a 37-year-old gay man, fielded what he took to be sexual advances from an undercover DEA narcotics detective, Mike Nahum. After refusing the detective's advances three times, and even attempting to depart, Blanco finally purchased the officer some drugs - methamphetamine, to be precise.Fortunately for Blanco, The Fourth District Court of Appeal upheld Broward Circuit Judge Susan Lebow's decision that Blanco had been the victim of entrapment. "The whole situation seemed very clear to me," Lebow said during the hearing, adding that the attractive detective wore a tight T-shirt and jeans. "For the record, I would submit he was about 6 feet, 2 inches. He was in good shape, you know, a fit individual, young detective, looked to be maybe 30," Blanco's attorney, Kevin J. Kulik, said after asking that the judge officially recognize Nahum's attractiveness. Further proof of Nahum's good looks became even more apparent when the detective testified that he'd made no effort to make himself attractive to Blanco and that as far as he was concerned, "party" meant to do drugs. [Frat boys everywhere are furiously researching new terminology!-Ed.] Judge Lebow's findings that Blanco had been entrapped by Nahum's "non-verbal communication" was upheld by the appeals court. Chances are that the self-described "lonely gay man" Blanco won't be scoring drugs for friendly strangers again anytime soon! Snip-snip before you poke-poke  If you think all birth control is handled by women, you're only about 60% correct. According to the latest statistics from the Alan Guttmacher Institute, almost 40% of birth control responsibility is taken -- or shared -- by men. Here's the breakdown of how men are helping prevent unwanted pregnancies: Couples who use condoms for birth control: 20.4%; Couples who rely on a man's vasectomy: 10.9%; Couples who rely on "withdrawal": 3%. Not what we'd call that "taking control," unless you're talkin' SELF control!We'll do the math for you; these numbers add up to 34.5% of contraceptive efforts being initiated and/or shared by men. In addition, 2.3% of couples rely on periodic abstinence. But c'mon, doesn't EVERYONE at least "employ" periodic abstinence? The Guttmacher Institute generously attributes these periodic abstinences to a man taking "equal responsibility with his woman partner." We aren't even going to touch the, um, hot-button issue of precisely who is just saying no. Our critical editorial opinion will challenge the Institute's findings and venture to say the true statistic is that 10.9% of couples are relying on birth control that is 100% "initiated" by men. Because only when they go for the snip-snip are they truly 100% responsible!
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