[해석] 그 당시 나는 독일에 살고 있었는데 한 남자 친구가 자신의 타고난 재능(정력)에 대해 자신을 갖지 못하였고, 인정이 많은 나는 그의 정력이 수수한 편이라는 자신감을 주기를 원하여, 다음 날 약속이 된 산부인과에 가서 새로운 패서리(여성용 피임용구)를 끼웠다. 그날 그와 같이 잔 후 패서리에 약간 큰 구멍을 내어, "이것 좀 봐요, 당신 때문에 이렇게 된 거죠? 남자친구는 처음에 약간 미심쩍어했는데 이유는 그게 독일산 패서리이기 때문에 그렇게 큰 구멍이 난다는 것을 인정하지 않았다. 그는 잠시 후 임신 가능성에 대해 조바심을 냈다. 그러다가 남자친구는 속으로 만족했으며, 다음 주 그는 람보처럼 행동하면서 "그 애가 머리는 좋지 않았겠지만, 귀여운 애이었을 거야?"라고 말했다.
MEMORABLE BIRTH-CONTROL MOMENTS
Do Any Of These Contraceptive Bloopers And Blunders Sound Familiar?
By Judith Newman
"I was living in Germany at the time, and I had a boyfriend who had a few doubts about his...endowment. Being the good sport that I was, I wanted to reassure him that he was just fine. I knew I was going to the gynecologist the next day to get fitted for a new diaphragm, so that night, after we had made love, I punctured a rather large hole in the thing. `See?' I said to him afterward. `Look what you did!' "First, he was little doubtful -- because, after all, it was a German diaphragm, and he refused to believe a German product would break like that. Then, for a few minutes, he fretted over the possibility of pregnancy. But I knew he was secretly pleased with himself. For the next week, he was Rambo. "Okay, maybe he wasn't too bright, but he was a sweetie." Katlyn, 31, writer
-"Cosmopolitan"
[N.B.] birth-control 피임, 산아제한 contraceptive 피임약 blooper 큰 실수 endowment 재능, 소질 good sport 인정이 많은, 사람이 좋은 gynecologist 산부인과 의사 diaphragm 페서리(여성용 피임용구) puncture 구멍내다 fret 애타다, 조바심 내다 possibility of pregnancy 임신 가능성 secretly 비밀히, 몰래
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