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The religious right has launched a war on contraception and condoms - particularly since Bush took office. They have tried to make it appear as if condoms don't work - so abstinence is the only solution to STDs. The problem is, as long as sex feels good, people will partake in it. Leaders of the right wing likely have as much sex as anyone else, they just lie about it or feel guilty and "repent" after the deed is done.
A new study out today shows that condoms are effective at preventing human papillomavirus.
"The findings are definitive," said Dr. James R. Allen, president of the American Social Health Association, an organization in Research Triangle Park, N.C., dedicated to the prevention of sexually transmitted infections.
We can now look forward to a week of spin from the right with their tired and discredited message: "If it feels good, it's fatal."
The right wing will surely say that condoms don't work 100% of the time. However, "virgin pledges" don't work all the time either, and I don't see the right wing abandoning their "abstinence only" programs because they lack perfection.
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Penn and Teller did a good and funny episode on this topic--if you have 'in demand' with your cable service, try to find it. They also did a scathing report on how the right wing and the mormon church in particular have taken over the boyscouts and have virtually turned it into a modern american version of the hitlerjugend. B. Queer
posted by Anonymous, at
6/22/2006 2:08 PM
I was completely dismayed at a segment yesterday on NPR radio regarding condom use and HPV. The segment was standard NPR reporting until the very end, when they elected to give the final word to a representative from Focus on the Family. I wrote and expressed my disapproval at their decision to give the final thought regarding a medical matter to a group who is consistantly disregarding science and slanting the truth to the point of outright lies. At this writing, I have heard no response from NPR.
posted by jekelhyde, at
6/22/2006 9:51 PM
I wonder if npr would give a platform to holocaust deniers or other whack jobs---disgusting!
posted by Anonymous, at
6/22/2006 11:42 PM
i heard a statistic (don't know the source or anything so this may not be totally accurate - however it came from some christian source) anyhow it stated that the virginity promise keepers were more likely to engage in sex including oral and anal sex than their peers who did not make a commitment to "purity"
posted by Anonymous, at
6/23/2006 2:51 AM
Anyone who knows history (as the Religious Reich does not) will know that syphilis first appeared in 16th century Europe and proceded to ravage the world until antibiotics were developed in the 20th century. This was while anti-sexual Puritanism was going full-blast.
"Abstinence works! Ask that guy with his nose eaten away!"
posted by Anonymous, at
6/23/2006 3:46 PM
As Harry Truman once said about the Russians, "Those ever-lying bastards!"
posted by Anonymous, at
6/23/2006 4:15 PM
