Word: condomize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DUDLEY HOUSE members must not be very creative. House committee is joining with the Undergraduate Council to install condom dispensers in house laundry rooms. Of the house committees so far to consider the proposal, only Dudley's has declined to sign up. Dudley is a non-residential house, it was decided, so the machines wouldn't serve any purpose. But why not? Passion knows no boundaries of time, location or context. Or, it seems, of wash cycles...
Like all freedoms, though, this one has been abused by some to further their own, selfish ends. Take condom manufacturers. All of a sudden it's acceptable for condoms to be advertised on television and in full-page newspaper ads. Johnny Carson can make jokes about them and get laughs in Middle America. AIDS hysteria has been a Trojan Horse, if you will, through which the marketing gurus of the prophylactic industry have boosted public acceptance and sales of their product...
...PUTTING CONDOM dispensers around college campuses is part of their strategy. But their ready availability all over the Square aside, there is no need for them on this campus. First, the medical evidence is fairly conclusive that if you're not an intravenous drug user or a homosexual, you're very, very unlikely to contract aids. Most students at Harvard are neither...
Researchers at Berkeley found that of women who had more than 100, condom-less sexual contacts over the course of a year with AIDS-infected partners, only one-third contracted the disease. In a longer study the same percentage held up among women who had sex more than 600 times with infected partners. Since 1 percent of random males carry the AIDS bug, a woman thus would have to have 60,000 encounters with different American men to have even a one-third risk of catching the disease...
Although virtually all of the freshmen whoattended the meeting about the condom machinesfavored installation, they disagreed on where toput them, said Noam Bramson '91, the UndergraduateCouncil member who proposed installing themachines...