From: stank@perrault.unet.com (Stan Knight)
Newsgroups: alt.politics.bush,talk.politics.misc,alt.politics.clinton,alt.politics.elections
Subject: Re: Passing out Condoms (Was Re: Better Off Than Four Years Ago NOT)
Date: 1 Sep 92 16:43:28 GMT
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In article <1992Sep1.115837.4255@ornl.gov> de5@ORNL.GOV (Dave Sill) writes:
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>In article <mjenkins.715300197@cunews>, mjenkins@alfred.carleton.ca (Michael Jenkinson) writes:
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>>If you're too "embarassed" to buy the condom, you should be more
>>embarassed to have sex.
>
>Nonsense.
>
>Intercourse is a private act; purchasing condoms is not, it's often public. 
>In a small town, it's hard to keep such a thing secret.  People should have
>the right to keep their personal matters private.  Distributing condoms
>through a school nurse under guaranteed privacy helps encourage their use by
>those predisposed to both having sex and using condoms.
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>-- 
>Dave Sill (de5@ornl.gov)	   For every Bill Joy there is a Kirk McKusick.
>Martin Marietta Energy Systems     For every Bill Gates there is a Richard
>Workstation Support                Stallman.                     --Paul Graham


Very true Dave. It seems that all these anti-condom people either lead very
boring and sexually oppressed lifes in their teeny years or they have 
completely forgotten what it was like being a teen. Remember all those hormones
running amok inside your body, all those urges you didn't even know existed?
I grew up in Ill. There you could get condoms from vending machines in 
bathrooms etc. In Kentucky you had to go into a Drug Store. I had freinds that
would drive 40 miles one way just to get across the Ill. state line. There
they would stop at the 1st gas station, go into the bathroom, buy as many
condoms as they could afford at the time, and then get back into their car and
drive 40 miles back to Kentucky. If they didn't have time to make the drive 
then they just took their chances.(Of course taking your chances then wouldn't
get you killed). IMHO x percent(small)of teens will have unprotected sex just 
because they're not supposed too. The same x percent will NEVER have sex
for the same reason. It's that huge percentage in the middle that WILL have
sex but wish to do it responsibly that this type of program is trying to 
protect. And don't give me this "just say no" b.s. With most teens you have
as much chance of "talking" them out of having sex as you do "talking" your
cat out of heat. One thing I would like to know---IS THERE A SINGLE PERSON
OUT THERE WITH TEENAGE CHILDERN(my daughter will be 13 this month)THAT IS
APPOSED TO THIS TYPE OF PROGRAM? If this stuff is not affecting your family
then go bitch about something else.

Stan Knight
|"What kind of society is it that allows you to buy plastic covers to protect|
|your furniture but not your children?" ---Gilda Radner---                   |
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