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- From: pburch@roc.mbcr.bcm.tmc.edu (Paula Burch)
- Newsgroups: misc.kids
- Subject: Re: SAFE SEX or SAFER SEX?
- Date: 25 Jan 1993 19:56:18 GMT
- Organization: Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Tx
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- M18611@MBVM.Mitre.Org (Kathy Wilk) writes:
- >
- > Here's something I would like to have cleared up - is there such a thing as
- > safe sex (outside of marriage - OK, perhaps even in marriage, it's not so
- > safe...)?
-
- "Safe sex" is really an epidemiological concept. If EVERYONE used latex
- condoms every time, then there would not be an AIDS epidemic, period.
- That's pretty darned safe. Promotion of condom usage now could save
- millions of lives in the next decade or two, even though condoms are
- imperfect.
-
- Unfortunately, as you point out, "safe sex" on an individual level is
- meaningless, as long as there is an epidemic going on at all, and the
- term is used to refer to what might more precisely be known as "safer
- sex".
-
- Paula Burch
- pburch@bcm.tmc.edu
-