[FairWitness]

Half of the women experiencing their first sexual encounter get a disease to remember it by. More than 8,000 teenagers a day get infected. Nearly one in four people over the age of 12 already has a variety of genital herpes, and experts anticipate that 50 percent of white American men will be infected in the future.

There is no freedom without responsibility. In the words of an old country music song, "Somethin's got a hold on me, it's cheap but it ain't free".

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[wasp69]

The timing of this article's release along with the one about masturbation decreasing prostate cancer in men is kinda more than circumstance. I'll have to think about this for a while to absorb it all. Be back after surfing porn sites for, uh, research.....

[Mr. Mojo]

Half of the women experiencing their first sexual encounter get a disease to remember it by.

That % is a lot higher than I would've thought.

[Desdemona]

ping

[DBrow]

One CDC report dealt with hetrosexual AIDS transmission- they found that condoms provide 85% protection in M-F enounters. I used this statistic when my school was contemplating condom distribution. I brought up the other STDs too.

I pointed out that 85% reduction still leaves 15%- about one in six, the same odds as Russian Roulette.

Most people view Russian Roulette as being quite unsafe but the school apparently did not, they hand out condoms.

Heck, it's safer than having all the cylinders loaded, I guess.

[Protagoras]

There is no freedom without responsibility.

Well said. And it is refreshing (in a wierd sort of way) to see the whole problem of sexual licence addressed instead of just pretending that homosexuals cause all the problems.

[tahiti]

Something to ponder.

There are many laws at all levels of government, local, state, and federal, prohibiting, limiting, or requiring safety equipment for human activity.

For example, no smoking in New York, seat belt laws in Illinois, motorcycle helmet laws in many states, prohibition of "bear(ing) arms," fast food companies and gun manufacturers being sued for producing harmful products, are justified by the "compelling state interest of public safety and controll of public money spent on health care."

Especially in the male homosexual community, where STD's and AIDS are rampant as well as a mutant staph infection is rampant as well, why are their not laws protecting the "public health" and the "compelling state interest" of controlling medical costs from such sexual behavior?

It kind of stands the notion of "public safety" and "compelling state interest" as the justification for denying, disparaging and abridging liberty on its head, n'est pas?

[nickcarraway]

From an article in the Washington Post on Sunday

"I was trying to give sex a good name," Hefner told the Television Critics Association summer gathering last week. "Because sex had always been both legally and socially and politically outside the boundaries of what was acceptable in society."

"I tried to create a magazine and a lifestyle around it that incorporated sex as a natural, normal part of life, including recreational sex," he said.