Condoms don't protect against all STDs. Social conservatives, goaded by George W. Bush, are taking advantage of that little-known fact. First of two parts.
Nothing is ever as simple as it seems.
Like the idea that a lubricated latex barrier is all it takes to keep a lover's germs private. No, Virginia, condoms and safe sex are not exactly synonymous. It turns out there may be some things we don't know about condoms, although public health officials are convinced that the devices are the strongest defense we have against the spread of sexually transmitted diseases. The problem is, before the AIDS epidemic, no one ever bothered to do the difficult research needed to confirm that. And into this gap of knowledge, the opponents of extramarital sex have leapt, with a vengeance.