Wednesday, April 23, 2003

 
DON'T USE A CONDOM. UM, UNLESS YOU HAVE SEX.
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I was thinking, it seems like a lot of the religious and conservative groups that won't urge people to use condoms when they have non-marital sex, say that this is because they believe it to be an endorsement of non-marital sex. I wonder whether someone could put it this way: when I say that if you have non-marital sex, then use a condom, I mean it in the same sense as when I say, if you jump off a five story building, then try to aim for the bushes. That is, whatever you do, don't jump off a five story building. But if you're definitely going to do it anyway, which you shouldn't, then you might be slightly better off if you don't land on concrete. And in exactly the same sense, don't have non-marital sex. If you do, even with a condom which is used properly and remains intact, you can still get most sexually transmissible diseases, including some fatal ones. And if the condom breaks or is used improperly, then you can still get pregnant or get HIV. But if you're definitely going to have sex, no matter what I say, then better that you use a condom.

Am I just dreaming here, or do you think maybe some Republicans and preachers could get behind this idea?

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