Word: condoms
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Over the past week groups distributing condoms have pretended that they are a ticket to "protection" and "safe" sex. They have said nothing about condom failure rates, although groups like Planned Parenthood put these rates as high as 17 percent overall and 33 percent during teenage use. On Tuesday while I stood in line for dinner at the Union a student threw a handful of condoms at the line. The gesture was indicative of a whole attitude...
...idea that condoms make sex "safe" came in during the early years of the AIDS scare. But as we learned more about the nature of AIDS, it became clear that throwing condoms at the problem would not solve it. Wholesale distribution of condoms without discussion of the likelihood and consequences of condom failure is irresponsible at best. The term "safe sex" has become an anachronism, and so have institutions like Condom Week. Olive (Polly) Langendorf...
...have lots of ideas for this semester, Dylan, Kelly and Brenda tell us in this message, "including Condom [sic] Week, a Freedom of Choice Act Rallly [sic], etc." My question is, how "dum" do you have to be to spell condom with a "u?" I mean, reallllly...
Throughout Condom Week, volunteers will table in dining halls and distribute condoms and pamphlets giving instructions for their proper use, as well as information about safe sex, Foster said...
...Condom Week has also been busy for Toby B. Kasper '97, the initiator of the Freshman Condom Availability Project, a recently-launched effort to makecondoms and safe sex information available in thefirst-year dorms...