[Coleus]

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[HiTech RedNeck]

Non-Catholic doctors know this too...

[killjoy]

"If we are promoting truthful public information then tell the people that using condoms is dangerous." Gamutam referenced the HIV crisis in Thailand, where widespread promotion and use of condoms has failed to curb the rise of HIV. By the end of 2003, Thailand, with a population of 63 million, registered 570,000 HIV-positive adults and children. Gamutam compared the statistic to the Philippines, where only 9,000 Filipinos were HIV-positive out of a population of 80 million. 500 died of AIDS in the Philippines that year, while 58,000 perished in Thailand. The data, said Gamutam, showed that "the condom use program in Thailand is not effective."

These numbers, and the conclusions drawn, are a complete joke. Thailand has about 10,000 new cases per year which is far from what is presented in this article. A large percentage of these cases are from other risk factors, namely drug use, not from sexual contact. Drawing the conclusion that condom use is ineffective is just dumb.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

Now my grandma sells cheap prophylactics.
She punctures the head with a pin.
While grandpa gets rich from abortions.
My god, how the money rolls in.

From Oscar Brand’s “How the money rolls in”.

[Alter Kaker]

This is just silliness.

[matthew fuller]

"Gamutam referenced the HIV crisis in Thailand, where widespread promotion and use of condoms has failed to curb the rise of HIV."

Condom promotion and distribution is totally irrelevant to the contracting of HIV....

[OrangeHoof]

Back when homosexuals were back in the closet and before anyone had heard of AIDA, I took a college course in pharmacy for lay-people. One day, the subject was birth control. It was spelled out what the efficacy rates of varioys birth control methods were (the Pill, IUDs, diaphragm, rhythm method, etc.).

When it came to condoms, we were told the CDC had evidence that condoms were 88% effective in stopping pregnancies. That told me that there was a 12% failure rate. But even worse, that doesn’t factor in the number of times the condom failed but the woman still didn’t get pregnant.

Now, the human sperm is a tiny sucker but it is enormous compared to a virus molecule. So, how was a condom that was mediocre at best at preventing a larger item such as human sperm from swimming upstream and impregnanting a woman going to be the “magic bullet” that was going to save the secual revolution from the much smaller HIV virus?

It never was. Telling gays to just stop having anal sex would have been a more compassionate response than to try to fool them that they could have “safe” sex if they just wore a condom. But, noooooooo, the politically correct liberals got involved which, of course, led to bad science, misinformation, increased government spending and demonizing anyone who actually spoke the truth.

A condom is better than no condom but you are fooling yourself if you believe it makes you safe.