She knows people who use Saran Wrap as a prophylactic.
As a prophylactic, this statement elided a more intriguing donation.
What is it they are doing on the mainland that appears to be acting as a prophylactic against Affluenza?
Doctors here use it to treat H1N1 (it shortens the duration of symptoms) and as a prophylactic.
Inflatable plastic ottomans serve as a prophylactic barrier during the men's simulated copulation; the women wear them like geishas' obis.
And it will serve as a prophylactic against the alternative, to which it's dangerously easy to succumb: becoming a hardened shell of habits, with not much left inside.
That is not really true, though there is a queasy slickness to the violence, a balletic ritualisation that arguably acts as a prophylactic, as Alexander Walker has argued.
She's a sometime prostitute, and they eventually share a bed, though the experience is perfunctory; their need and their avoidance of intimacy act as a prophylactic.
Typically a newborn with an infected mother would be given one or two drugs as a prophylactic measure.
"We should have done it as a prophylactic, but maybe it's human nature to tend to respond to an emergency.
CHIEF JUSTICE REHNQUIST -- Well, Mr. Cassell, I think you can point to other cases, too, including one which I authored, Michigan v. Tucker, that refers to it as a prophylactic rule, but here we're kind of faced with a conundrum.
