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Lichtman's comments on the unreliability of "natural" condoms are well taken but have no bearing on the program being considered at Harvard. The condoms in the dispensers will most likely be lubricated latex models, possibly coated with spermicidal jelly shown to give additional protection against the AIDS virus...
THERE ARE still some caveats even if the practitioner of "safe sex" manages to avoid such trauma. Industry and government studies demonstrate that the AIDS virus cannot penetrate latex condoms. Other studies, though, underscore the susceptibility of latex condoms to rapid deterioration when exposed to heat, light or oil-based lubricants. (I know of no studies examining the effects of genuine cowhide on latex.) And earlier this year the Food and Drug Administration ordered three major condom manufacturers to recall 100,000 condoms after spot inspections found many with excessive leaks...
...AIDS virus and other venereal diseases is abstinence or the use of a condom. The AIDS virus can only be transmitted through semen and blood. Because one can never be assured of being free of the smallest lesions in the mouth, anus, or vagina, consistent use of a latex condom is recommended...
...casts the sweet perfume of life to the caressing sunlit breezes, it is time for young men to cast their thoughts to sex, and where to get it. Yes, it is spring, and more than ever the mind of the nation is turned to thoughts of roses, moonlight, champagne, latex, spermicidal foam and deadly viruses...
...thrill by walking into a drug store full of old ladies and ask for a box of condoms. Now that "riding bareback" is as dangerous as wearing a Springsteen t-shirt in Lebanon, even the old ladies are clamoring for them. The fabric of the eighties is latex...