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  1. Xref: sparky talk.abortion:29343 alt.politics.homosexuality:5225
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!wupost!darwin.sura.net!dtix!oasys!bense
  3. From: bense@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Ron Bense)
  4. Newsgroups: talk.abortion,alt.politics.homosexuality
  5. Subject: Re: What *is* Homophobia
  6. Message-ID: <22871@oasys.dt.navy.mil>
  7. Date: 28 Jul 92 18:59:29 GMT
  8. References: <1992Jul22.211155.13409@amhux2.amherst.edu> <nlmepa4@fido.asd.sgi.com>
  9. Reply-To: bense@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Ronald Bense)
  10. Followup-To: talk.abortion
  11. Organization: Carderock Division, NSWC, Bethesda, MD
  12. Lines: 21
  13.  
  14. In talk.abortion, cj@eno.corp.sgi.com (C J Silverio) writes:
  15. >forgach@noao.edu (Suzanne Forgach) writes:
  16. #|I find it pretty strange to see people advocating something designed for
  17. #|something totally unrelated -- birth control --, as a method of desease
  18. #|control!
  19.  
  20. >Condoms have been used for disease prevention for
  21. >longer than you've been alive, Forgach. You might
  22. >be interested in screening some of the pro-condom
  23. >training films that the US armed forces showed to
  24. >soldiers during WWII.
  25.  
  26. I don't know about diseaase control, but they've certainly been around
  27. longer than Forgach. I remember a vague reference that papyrus condoms
  28. were used in Egypt way in the B.C. era. I read this so long ago that
  29. I cannot recall any details, just that papyrus seemed an extremely unpleasant
  30. prospect for condom material.
  31.  
  32. Ron
  33.  
  34. Potassium Benzoate included as a preserver.
  35.