Message-ID: <199704121106.MAA01615@linux.lisse.na> Date: Sat, 12 Apr 1997 12:06:51 +0100 From: Dr Eberhard W Lisse <mailto:el@LISSE.NA> Subject: Re: Condoms..round or square? -Reply To: mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU
>From: JC WANDEMBERG <mailto:juwandem@NMSU.EDU>
[...] >On Fri, 11 Apr 1997, Jonathan Sanford wrote:
>
>> Are you saying that efforts to increase the availability of condoms in
countries >> where HIV is prevalent and social/population pressures great is a bad
idea or >> an irrelevant idea?
>
>Dear Jon, the use of condoms as the solution for the problems must NOT be
>based on "weak" or worst yet "wrong" assumptions. The whole thing gets
>'pretty' deep (Pretty et al. came up with a typology of participation
>comprised of seven classes).
[...] Lots of irrelevant drivel deleted.
Jon,
I see the people dying in front of me because they don't know about condoms, don't understand how to use them or because their male spouses who have multiple sexual contacts don't want to use them.
I have seen three 15 year old pregnant girls this week, one needing workup to exclude ectopic pregnancy. None of them had any idea about condoms or the better familiy planning options, all of which are free, no questions asked.
It is well known that males in Africa go for younger girls in the correct belief that the chance of contracting HIV from them is smaller. It's just that the chance of giving it to them is higher.
So as I have written in the past, I really don't care much what they teach this wannabe about Home Economics somewhere in the back waters of New Mexico, but this nonsense is not only irritating it is insulting.
el
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