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The Myth Of Safe Sex

In one study conducted by promoters of condom use, more than 13% of unmarried teenagers became pregnant in the first year they used condoms for contraception.

Sex is synonymous to risk!
It's true. Every time you have sex with anyone other than your lifelong spouse, you risk pregnancy and disease. Some studies have shown condoms as effective means for reducing that risk, but nothing has eliminated that risk. When you stop and think about that, it makes you wonder where the term Safe Sex came from. Doesn't it sound like a Madison Avenue sales pitch for a term that should more accurately read Somewhat less risky sex!

Condoms have a 10-15% failure rate at preventing pregnancy.
(source: Surgeon General, US Public Health Service, JAMA 1993 June)
Keep in mind that there are only 3-5 days per month a woman can actually become pregnant. The 10-15% failure rate is based on all usage, not just the 3-5 days the condom is actually supposed to do its job. Imagine how high the failure rate for just holding back seminal fluids must really be.

Now consider sexually transmitted diseases. You can catch STD's almost any time. The virus that causes AIDS is 1/25th the size of a sperm (meaning it can slip through tears and gaps that much easier. Now how safe does safe sex sound?

All the press coverage of AIDS along with the media neglect of other STDs has lead many people to believe that the others have been cured. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Many other STDs are actually more common than AIDS. Some are cured easily if caught in time. Others are still incurable! Here are just a few to consider:

Disease	Effects	Comments
Chlamydia	Causes PID, chronic pain, infertility, problems during pregnancy.	Over 4 million new cases each year
Gonorrhea	Causes genital warts, cervical neoplasia. Linked to cancer of the cervix.	Over 1 million reported cases per year.
Genital Human Papillomavirus (HPV)	Causes genital warts, cervical neoplasia. Linked to cancer of the cervix.	Over 1 million reported cases per year.
Herpes	Painful blisters around sex organs. Produces fever, enlarged lymph glands, flu-like symptoms	Almost 500,000 new cases reported each year. Incurable
Hepatitis B	Causes cirrhosis and cancer.	300,000 new cases reported each year
AIDS	Fatal Incurable	Estimated 40 million world wide by the year 2000.
Syphilis	Leads to blindness, heart disease, nervous disorders, insanity, tumors and death.	Over 100,000 reported cases per year.
Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (PID) PID, though not an STD, is a common result of STDs	Chronic pelvic pain. Ectopic pregnancy (life threatening) Infertility. Abscesses in the pelvis.	Caused by over 10 different organisms. About 1 million new cases per year.

My partner would tell me if he had a disease.

Most sexually transmitted diseases have latency periods with symptoms are not visible. Some latency periods are over one year long, and some even have been estimated to have latency periods that could last up to 10 years. The point is, most people don't even know that they have contracted an STD, let alone that they are spreading it to another person.

Some data suggests that condoms along with the safe sex myth that surrounds them actually lead to greater problems.

On May 19, 1992, USA Today released a story about a progressive Colorado school that began freely distributing condoms. Since the start of the program, the school's birth rate grew to 31% greater than the national average. Administrators were described as searching for explanations. One conclusion which they do not seem to have arrived at is that condoms encouraged more students to become sexually active because they believed the product would make sex safe. What they found out instead was that condoms make sex less risky. The students who found themselves with unwanted pregnancies probably didn't like the odds, even with condoms.

You are not a number!

Here's the point. The people who thought up all this safe sex talk and who espouse it most ardently have done so with the macroscopic mindset. They have looked at our society as a mass of disease carriers in the face of an epidemic and have approached the problem with a mathematical point of view. They probably are also thinking of you as an animal who will be unable to resist the biological temptation to have sexual gratification - even at the risk of death.

The Caring Pregnancy Center believes that you are a more noble being than that. You can reduce your risk of unwanted pregnancy and disease to zero. There are more caring ways to express your love for someone that sex. Abstinence shows you care for yourself and for your loved ones. Wait until you find one life partner, and, until then, make abstinence part of your answer to a more peaceful and healthy life.

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