Accuracy of religious document against condoms (3)
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Respectfully,
Your sister-in-law expresses the prudish, English Victorianism still
inculcated and still very much alive in the West Indies. As an African-
American heterosexual living in the San Francisco Bay area, a lot this
sounds unbelievable.
I think a risk factor not mentioned much is when individuals, despite
knowing all the risks, decide not to use condoms because "they don't
like them". There are women who claim not to be orgasmic if a condom is
worn. Believe it or not, there are women who claim that orgasm for them
is impossible without the male orgasm being felt first. I'm only re-
porting what I've seen and experienced, being in an area regarded as
being in the front lines of this disease.
It appears that people are beginning to move towards more monogamous
(serially at least) relationships where individuals are tested for HIV
and if negative, have unprotected sex, preferring this over the in-
creasingly clinical aspects of sexual relationships. One friend jok-
ingly says, "one day we'll all have to go the hospital and take antivi-
ral showers before climbing into our safety suits in order to have
sex!"
Condoms are necessary to fight this problem, dispensarilly indispensa-
ble, but the answers to this disease may be objectively evident, but
applied individually and personally are quite moot.
Ras Bakul Manu
mailto:battle@netwizards.net
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