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New US government website attacked for comments on sexuality and effectiveness of condoms (telling partly the truth)

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PaulKing - 11 Apr 2005 09:56 GMT
New US government website attacked for comments on sexuality and
effectiveness of condoms (telling partly the truth -ed)

The wording of information about condoms on the site is also potentially
misleading (they mean factual). US abstinence education programmes usually
only mention condoms when referring to their potential for failure.

The 4parents.com site suggests that condoms offer only “moderate”
protection against HIV and gonorrhoea, “less” protection against
Chlamidya, herpes and human papilloma virus, and that the ability of
condoms to protect against syphilis “has not been well studied.” Although
these claims are backed by reference to studies looking at the
effectiveness of condoms, they do not acknowledge that the studies were,
almost exclusively, conducted in populations with a high prevalence, or
risk of sexually transmitted infections.

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The rest of the article (attacking the new semi honest official statements
on condoms) is a pathetic attempt to defend condoms citing the one and
only study (if you can call it that) conducted over twelve years ago that
claimed that condoms reduced 'AIDS' in the 132 couples studied. As usual
the 'conclusions' section of that report which said 'in real world use
condoms failed up to 32% of the time' was ignored.

This study has been contradicted by ALL the 400 subsequent studies almost
without exception.
PaulKing - 11 Apr 2005 10:15 GMT
Do Condoms Protect Against Small Viruses?
The use of condoms is widely recommended to prevent sexually transmitted
diseases, including those caused by such viruses as herpes simplex,
hepatitis B, and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). The efficacy of
condoms in these circumstances, however, is unknown. The water-leak test
used to ensure the integrity of condoms can detect holes as small as 3 to
4 m in diameter, but sexually transmitted viruses are much smaller, with
diameters of 0.04 to 0.15 m. A previous study demonstrated that about one
third of condoms tested allowed penetration of HIV-sized polystyrene
spheres.
 
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