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Originally posted by lovelyivy84
The problem is with people. People won't take this as gee I should be celibate. They will take this like, well if condoms don't work then why bother?
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In school districts where abstinence-only sex ed is pushed, teen pregnancy rates are often actually higher than the places where "safe sex" ed is pushed. Why? Because some abstinence-only programs send the message that "condoms aren't effective at preventing pregnancies." Not "condoms aren't 100% effective at preventing pregnancies" -- abstinence-only leaves out the 100% because they want to lead teenagers into thinking condoms are less effective than they are, hoping that they can scare the kids into not having sex. But that doesn't work. What lovelyivy said happens instead -- they figure "Why bother?" and don't use condoms at all.
The same thing could happen here with Catholics and AIDS if they take the same message from it. People won't stop having sex. They'll just stop using condoms.
Furthermore, the message I saw promoted in that article (that condoms cannot stop AIDS because it's soooo small that it can get through the condom) was not just a twisting of the facts to support their point, it was a blatant lie.