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Actually, if your reports 1 in 100 number relates to the entire pool of HIV and non-HIV infected individuals, and the 15 in a 100 number relates to the pool of those infected with HIV, then the 10% risk of transmission is actually conservative compared to your report. Perhaps I am misreading the study. I'm sure you will point it out if I do. Regardless, the "safe sex" propagandists, by merely using that term when it is false, lie all the time. It is not the Church that it is lying. None of your sophistry can change that.

You and others keep mentioning that the Church's beliefs on the sinfulness of sex outside of marriage in an act in which life is not artificially impeded, as if that (a) means that the scientific fact that the Church is pointing out, i.e., less than 100% effectiveness, is thereby impeached, or (b) that the Church is somehow wrong and not entitled to hold its beliefs.

Using a condom during intercourse is more likely to prevent transmission of HIV than not using a condom during intercourse.

Is abstinence more effective? Yes.

Is everybody able to abstain? No.

It is better to examine one's own conscience, and accept the fact that one is going to sin, and prepare for it, than pretend that one won't, and not prepare.

God will forgive you for sinning, but HIV is forever.