[peanut123]

TS,

Are you one of those idiotic religious nutcases trying to scare people into "behaving" ? You joined SBF on 7 Feb 2010 just to post this 1 message at midnight ?

Your medical quotes are all taken out of context or are just plain vague. None of the quotes specifically point out the condoms don't work. They just imply that condoms can sometimes fail, or you can still get HIV via other means, such as BBBJ or painting.

It is obvious to any thinking person that condoms are very effective against HIV. Just compare the HIV infection rates in Africa, where condom use is minimal, to that of developed nations where condom use is widespread, and its obvious that developed nations have much lower rates of infection. We are talking about sample sizes of hundres of millions of people, which makes the statistics much more valid than some random quote from the net.

In fact, if you Google for Dr Jaffee (actually, the correct spelling is Jaffe, Chief of Epidemiology for CDC), you can find interviews with him. You read his interview and you can tell that one of his key message is that alot of the rubbish (like the one TS posted ) is from people with religious agendas. For example, in one interview he said :

"There's certainly very little, if any, evidence that abstinence-based education decreases the risk of [becoming infected with] HIV, or any other STD [sexually transmitted disease], for young people. I believe it largely reflects a religious conservative agenda of the current (Bush) administration."

"Certainly, when the [most] recent Bush administration came into office, it became very clear that abstinence-only was a major message. We were told that in a variety of ways, in a variety of venues. And it showed. I mean, for example, the CDC condom fact sheet was taken off the CDC's Web site for quite a long time, because it was seen as too supportive of the role of condoms in HIV prevention. Well, if you say condoms prevent HIV, you're really knocking out one of the arguments for abstinence-only."

Read that ? People who claim condoms don't work are often religious nutjobs trying to push their no-sex-outside-marriage agenda.

And stop trying to frighten people with your rubbish. Dr Jaffe also has this to say about this tactic :

"I don't think exaggerating risks really gets you very far. I mean, people know what the risks are, and if you say it's worse than it is, they won't believe you."

Condoms cannot prevent Herpes or Genital warts, but these are chronic but not deadly.

Don't you just just love Google ?