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...current programs, which tend to focus on sexually transmitted diseases and condom-wearing bananas, clearly aren't getting the message across. One can hardly believe the cautious programs we now have could make a difference, in the face of a culture that, in its music and movie theaters, glamorizes sex without responsibility. A strong endorsement of sex education and contraceptive use is not typical of anti-abortion activists, but a policy without it is irresponsible...
...were a condom ad, Ali--the perfect wrap. Would you still do it?" I ask. He says there's no way he's driving around in a condom. A pedestrian stares at Ali's car, looking like she's already had a scoop or six. "How about this deal, Ali?" I ask. "You get paid $400 to drive around doing nothing, and I get paid to ask you stupid questions?" It's America, says a smiling Ali, who grew up in Iran. "That's why people come here." He hits the gas, and we're like two nuts...
...Howard Rheingold devoted an entire chapter to "teledildonics," his not-so-clever name for devices that allow people to have sex without being in the same area code. Rheingold imagines putting on a "diaphanous bodysuit, something like a body stocking but with the kind of intimate snugness of a condom" and having a virtual-reality sexperience over the Net. "You run your hand over your partner's clavicle and, 6,000 miles away, an array of effectors are triggered, in just the right sequence, at just the right frequency, to convey the touch exactly the way you wish...
...Cairo conference, where attendees pledged $5.7 billion to reduce birthrates in the developing world and acknowledged that giving women more education and reproductive freedom was the key to accomplishing that goal. Even a global calamity like aids has yielded unexpected dividends, with international campaigns to promote condom use and abstinence helping to prevent not only disease transmission but also conception...
...turn out to be positive for the virus on a blood test have no idea they're infected, in part because their symptoms aren't obvious. But like those with full-blown oozing blisters, they still shed the virus--and can infect others. If you're worried, use a condom and get a blood test...