In fact, STD reinfection rate increased even among females after this instruction (using condoms).
A study made in a genitourinary clinic in London (Evans et al. 1995)lxxii showed that an increase in the use of condoms from 1982 to 1992 from 4% to 21% did not have an effect on the number of viral STDs observed during this same period.
The same authors found that increasing condom use with regular partners correlated with decreasing incidence of gonorrhea, chlamydial infections, and trichomoniasis in women having regular partners, but did not show that trend with non-regular partners.
Moreover, condom use was ineffective in the prevention of non-gonococcal urethritis, candidosis, genital herpes and genital wartslxxiii.
J.M.Zenilman et al. (1995) lxxiv, studying the self-reported use of condoms, and the occuring sexually transmitted diseases in a cohort from a high-risk population, comprising 323 males and 275 female, found, surprisingly, that 15% of the men who
were "always" condom users had incident STDs, compared with 15.3% of the "never users"; 25.5% of the women who were "always" users had incident STDs, compared with 26.8% of "never" users.
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If we now consider the efficiency of the condom when used as a prophylactic against STDs, we find a significant failure rate which appears roughly inversely
proportional to the size of the pathogenic agent lxvi.
N.J.Fiumaralxvii reckons that the condom, which is in theory useful against STDs, is, in practice, inefficient. J.Pemberton et al. (1972)lxviii, while examining 2,093 STD cases diagnosed in Belfast found a lower percentage of syphilis and gonorrhea among
condom users, but a higher proportion of non-gonococcal urethrites and idiopathic STDs.
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STUDY ACTUALLY SHOWS AN INCREASE OF 'AIDS' WITH CONDOM USE (Two other studies have had similar results)
"a paradoxal increased risk of seroconversion proportional to condom use"
The few statistics illustrating the effect of condoms use on HIV transmission in homosexual acts do not give clear cut results.
R.Detels (1989)lxxxix observed a 2.9% drop in seroconversion when condoms were used in homosexual intercourse, in a cohort of 2915 active homosexuals initally HIV sero-negative.
But, in that statistic, the number of partners for each member of the cohort was almost as important a factor as the use or not of a condom.
L.Levin et al. (1995)xc found that most (71%) of the 140 active-duty young men with documented sero-conversion who were identified in various US army installations did use a condom during their homosexual or heterosexual relations.
Results seemed to indicate a paradoxal increased risk of seroconversion proportional to condom use in
this series.
"Condom use did not have, within these statistics, any influence on the risk of contamination."
In 1987, Padian (xciii), having studied over one year the rate of HIV seroconversion in a group of 97 women, sexual partners of 93 HIV-infected males, found that the risk of contamination was basically a function of the number of partners and of the number of sexual acts with an infected partner (increased risk of 4.6 for more than 100 sexual acts).
Condom use did not have, within these statistics, any influence on the risk of contamination.
Jacques Suaudeau, M.D.
xciii. PADIAN N., MARQUIS L., FRANCIS D.P., ANDERSON R.E., RUTHERFORD G.W.,
O'MALLEY P.M., WINKELSTEIN W., Male-to-Female Transmission of Human Immunodeficiency Virus,
Journal of the American Medical Association, August 14 1987, 258 (6), pp.788-790.