From: StarOwl@uiuc.edu (StarOwl)
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Subject: Re: Legislation of morality
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Date: 11 Oct 92 15:07:39 GMT
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green@plains.NoDak.edu (Brad Green) writes:
:
:The question is, would you have sex with someone you know has AIDS, and trust
:your life to a condom?  Do you teach your kids "I know you're little more than
:a rabbit, here, have a condom"?  Isn't the big push toward "safe" sex a
:little like saying if you play Russian roulette with only one round in the
:chamber it's safer than playing it with six?  Since the failure rate of
:condoms is somewhere in the neighborhood of 15-30%, isn't continuing to
:condone "playing around" about the same as condoning Russian roulette? 

Funny.  I thought the failure rate for condoms was in the 1-3% range, IF 
USED CORRECTLY.  The 15-30% failure rate includes all the times condoms
are put on wrong.  Of course, since sex ed classes all too frequently
aren't allowed to demonstrate how to correctly put on a condom, how's
a person going to learn?  I learned in a floor meeting while I was
living in a dorm (excuse me, Residence Hall).  Most of the floor
didn't attend.  If you're going to try and spread the word about how
to correctly use a condom, is there a way to _really_ get the message
across if such subject matter is verboten in the classroom.

Granted, this is still like playing Russian roulette.  However, I think
that most reasonably rational people have realized that people are
sexual animals; people are going to have sex no matter what.  To
cut down on the number of unwanted pregnancies and the spread of disease,
alternatives must be discussed.  Abstinence is an excellent alternative.
Unfortunately it is not a "practical" one in most instances.  Other
safe alternatives, like mutual masturbation, to the standard "insert tab 
A into slot B, C, or D" sex act, are still to a large extent socially taboo;
you aren't going to hear about them in your typical junior high or
high school sex ed curriculum.  That leaves talking about condoms,
and how to CORRECTLY use them.  Condoms aren't perfect, but they
will help to cut down on the spread of disease.

Unfortunately there are a lot of puritanical people out there who
don't want anything other than abstinence taught.  That would leave
most of the nation's teenagers in the dark, without knowledge about
just how dangerous sex is, and what they can do to save their lives
without having to deal with hormonal overload.

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