Word: condom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...should wear a lubricated latex condom. Most brands contain the spermicide nonoxynol-9, which also kills the AIDS virus. Lambskin condoms will not do the job since the virus can pass through the porous natural membrane...
...Studies suggest that the virus may pass more readily from woman to man during that time. A condom provides protection, but it is probably safer to abstain from vaginal intercourse during a period...
...shaped like cucumbers or bacon and eggs. On Hollywood Boulevard I saw a HISTORIC LANDMARK sign outside the site of "The First Custom T-Shirt Shop in California," flyers on the wall promoting a group called Venal Opulence and, in a store across the street, "Confucius X-Rated Mini-Condom Fortune Cookies." No wonder, I thought, that when I tell people I live in California -- worse, that I choose to live in California -- they look at me as if I had decided not to get serious or grow up; as if I had seceded from reality...
...little he can do about elected politicians out of touch with reality. Common sense tells us that Boston teenagers will probably continue to have sex even if Flynn (who was reelected last week with 75 percent of the vote) asks them not to. Common sense tells us that condom distribution, needle exchange and AIDS education could save lives. But politics, especially Boston politics, has never been known as an arena for common sense...
...article entitled, "AIDS Is Not Just a Gay Disease," Murray claims to dispell common "myths" about AIDS. These "myths" include the belief that the government is not addressing the problem, that the Catholic Church is obstructing the fight against AIDS and that condom distribution is an ineffective way to prevent AIDS...