Safe Sex Is An Oxymoron

[Cure of Ars]

Safe Sex is one of the biggest lies ever taught. Sex is never safe. “Use protection and you will not get pregnant and STD’s.” This lie has hurt many people. It has lead to broken hearts, people using and abusing each other, abortions, sexual transmitted diseases, and broken families. Sex is a powerful expression. It is the expression of love between two people and this love is able to be enfleshed and given a name after nine months. It also has the power of death through disease, abortion, and divorce. It is so powerful in fact that it can only be contained with reasonable safety within the Covenant commitment of marriage. Teaching abstinence and chastity is the only way to make sure that our children are safe and that they develop the character to pick good partners and develop healthy relationships. This is only scratching the surface of the theology of human sexuality. I ask all people of good will to defend and promote the truth about the meaning and purpose of human sexuality. Here is a study that shows the truth about safe sex.

Key findings of Sex, Condoms, and STDs include:

· Condoms must be used 100 percent of the time and used correctly during all the years an unmarried individual is engaged in sexual activity to provide any reasonable hope of avoiding STD infection and potential disease from infected partners (except for herpes and HIV where less than 100 percent condom use can provide some risk reduction).

· Even 100 percent condom use does not eliminate the risk of any STD including HIV.

· One hundred percent use of condoms for many years is so uncommon that it is almost a purely theoretical concept except for very few, very meticulous individuals. Even among adults who knew that their partner had HIV, only 56 percent used condoms every time (and the median follow up was only 24 months).

· There is no evidence of any risk reduction for sexual transmission of human papillomavirus infection (HPV) even with 100 percent condom use.

· Syphilis transmission is reduced from 29 percent to 50 percent with 100 percent condom use, leaving 50 to 71 percent relative risk of infection. (“Relative risk” does not mean the actual percentage risk of infection but rather refers to the calculated difference of risk between using a condom and not using a condom.)

· Gonorrhea transmission is reduced by approximately 50 percent with 100 percent condom use leaving an approximate 50 percent relative risk of infection.

· Chlamydia transmission is reduced by approximately 50 percent with 100 percent condom use, still leaving an approximate 50 percent risk of becoming infected with Chlamydia.

· A recent study showed that with 25 percent or more condom use, the risk of transmission of genital herpes is reduced for females but not for males. Expanded data by the same author, as yet unpublished but presented at a national STD conference, show risk reduction of approximately 40 percent for both males and females when condoms were used for 65 percent or more of sex acts leaving an approximate 60 percent relative risk of infection.

· HIV sexual transmission is reduced by approximately 85 percent with 100 percent condom use leaving an approximate 15 percent relative risk of infection with this usually fatal disease.

· For the approximately twenty other STDs, not enough data exist to say whether or not condoms offer any risk reduction from sexual transmission.

http://www.medinstitute.org/media/index.htm

No wonder why, “America is facing an epidemic of STDs – more than 15 million new STD infections per year,”. The public schools are makine this epidemic worse by giving a false sence of security against STD's. God bless

Edited September 24, 2003 by Cure of Ars

[Chastisement]

Here's a scary fact:

The structure of sperm is smaller then the structure of latex, meaning, that there's always going to be sperm getting through, and it only takes one...

Secondly, viruses are TINY in comparison to latex... and HIV/AIDS is a virus.

Also, 100% effective is BS. When everything is factored in, size of sperm in comparison to latex, the user, et cetera, condoms only work out to be 30% effective.

AND it has been foudn that PP has been handing out defective condoms and watered down versions of the Pill. Because, really, when you're making a fortune off of abortions it wouldn't be wise to stop that income by providing 100% effective BC.

[Cure of Ars]

Also, 100% effective is BS. When everything is factored in, size of sperm in comparison to latex, the user, et cetera, condoms only work out to be 30% effective.

To use the term “safe sex” in regards to condoms is like saying that it is safe to jump out of an airplane with a parachute that worked 70% of the time. To me this is not very safe.

[skuba steve]

Congratulations, you have discovered a problem!!!

So what are you gonna do about it????

Complain to the people on phatmass?

[Chastisement]

Complain to the people on phatmass?

Guess what?

I only complain to people on the Internet in my spare time...

[nippy316]

Congratulations, you have discovered a problem!!!

So what are you gonna do about it????

Complain to the people on phatmass?

Why are you complaining about us complaining??

YOU can go do something about it!!

And don't you use the "Why are you complaining about me complaining about you complaining??" line because I've already stolen it. :P

[ThereseFlower]

Peace, friends. Play nice.

trust in Jesus,

~TF~

[skuba steve]

D'oh!

"Why are you complaining about me complaining about you complaining"

Could someone please provide me with written permission to use this sentence????

Please???

You've won this round.

I'll be back.

But i would like to know what CoA is gonna do about it..

[Cure of Ars]

Congratulations, you have discovered a problem!!!

So what are you gonna do about it????

Complain to the people on phatmass?

When there is a problem the first thing you do it bring it to others attention so that you can get help. No one can make changes by themselves. If you want to call it complaining so be it. But I don't see anything wrong with complaining as long as you do something about it. I gave some things that I was doing in another post. And as an overloaded socail worker it is really all I have time to do at this point. What else would you have me do?

Edited September 24, 2003 by Cure of Ars

[littleflower+JMJ]

thanks cure! for the great thread!

like you and chaste im on to this one also.

+JMJ

God bless!

steve. be nice. all that stuff said to cure was not necessary he has nothign to prove to you. so if you want ppl to respect you, you first have to respect others. ps. i'm praying for you steve :)

[Unshackled]

I believe that GOD teaches abstinence unless within a marriage committment. Where is the need to discuss this topic any further?

[cmotherofpirl]

Yes, but with private interpretation, many people don't believe it.

[ThereseFlower]

I agree that the only way to 100% safety is not just not do it. Besides, I think just jumping into sex is so cheap... why would God want us to do something in a cheap way that He intended to be beautiful? I'm sorry, but I believe that we are called to act with a lot more integrity than that.

It is soooo hard to turn away from temptation, believe me. Even though I am in an all-female college, there are temptations just from the way some people talk about sex. It makes being sexually active at a young age seem so "normal", like my way of thinking is so "weird" or something.

The one philosophy that I have a hard time refuting among my peers is, "God made sexual acts feel good so that we would do them more often, so why should we ignore our 'natural' urges?"

...I just grumble to myself, "Yes, sex feels good, but it's meant to have children by in a stable unit of marriage...::grrr::"

I sort of agree on this point however--if we are supposed to have sex within marriage, why was sex created to feel very good? Why would God implant that kind of temptation in our minds and then tell us to put these feelings aside?

I need guidance. I'm a virgin, plan on being one for quite a while, and I don't want to be sucked in with peer pressure. I need to figure out a better way to hang on so that I can know the true beauty of sexual feelings--but exclusively with my future husband.

peace,

~TF~

[geetarplayer]

My friend thinks they teach abstinence in public schools. She's been to Catholic schools all her life, though, so I don't know where she's getting that information from.

-Mark

[ThereseFlower]

I know that from my experience in public school (I went K-12), at least in my school system--they didn't encourage or discourage either way. It was discussed that abstinence was the only truly 100% effective method of "safe sex", but other forms of birth control were discussed and even demonstrated on AIDS Awareness Day (in high school especially).

I think the attitude was that "We can tell you not to do it, but you probably aren't going to listen, so here is all this information anyway. It's your choice; you have to live with whatever consequences."

It's definitely not a Catholic way of looking at it, but at least they treated us like adults.

peace,

~TF~