Word: condom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Half the adults tested, for instance, did not know that a lubricant like Vaseline Intensive Care or baby oil can cause microscopic holes in a condom or a diaphragm in as little as 60 seconds and that this could lead to unwanted pregnancy, venereal disease or even AIDS. An alarming 49% did not know that a woman can get pregnant if she has sex during her menstrual period; 35% were unaware that a woman can get pregnant even if the man withdraws before ejaculating...
...older homosexuals have learned to practice safe sex, the younger generation does not appear to be so scrupulous. One study in San Francisco of 100 gay men, ages 18 to 25, found that within the previous month 46% had engaged at least once in anal intercourse without a condom...
...Francisco bus shelters seldom provoke double takes, but an eye-popping poster on display in 30 bus shelters is proving an exception. It depicts two naked young men partly wrapped in the U.S. flag. One of them has an arm about the other while his free hand holds a condom. The caption: LIFE, LIBERTY AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS...
...comes on the heels of a new study showing that an alarming 40.7% of gay and bisexual men from 20 to 24 who were treated in sexual-disease clinics were infected with the AIDS virus. What disturbed researchers most: 36% of the young gays were having sex without a condom, 71% when having sex with a steady boyfriend. Says Lewis Lillian, general manager of Gannett Transit, which is donating half the space for the bus shelter campaign: "Those studies are terrifying...
...mouthed slurring of women and homosexuals in the dialogue. The difference here is that the filmmakers and the lead actors (including rap artists Kid 'N Play and Full Force) are all middle-class blacks. The script virtually carries warning labels for unwary teens. Drinking is bad; sex without a condom is irresponsible. Rude and righteous, House Party is John Hughes divided by Spike Lee. "I wanted to make a movie that I had not seen," says writer-director Reginald Hudlin, 28, "but a movie that I wanted...