| How much do you trust a condom?
Posted: 9/15/2008 10:18:13 AM |
Chimera_Obscura: "Your post sounds like so much conspiracy theory BS to me."
On the Internet the phrase "that's just a conspiracy theory" is the equivalent of saying "you just posted enough evidence to convince a logical person but since I'm close-minded I'm going to try to suggest that what you wrote is ridiculous because I don't have any evidence to suggest otherwise".
I just provided the evidence for anyone who's willing to read that a group of people are transforming charity money (for food) into a program to secretively lower the African population. You might debate the merits or morals of these individuals but if you want to debate the validity of this claim then supply FACTS not RIDICULE. If all you supply is ridicule then you have given up. | |
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| How much do you trust a condom?
Posted: 9/15/2008 10:45:42 AM | happyendings: "According to my urologist, HIV, HPV AND HSVI & II have an 80% passthrough rate.
So that's 1 in 5 chance the condom won't help.
Good luck!!!"
It seems likely that your urologist was cautioning against using lambskin condoms to prevent STDs. Latex/polyurethane condoms do not have pores or holes big enough to permit an HIV-sized object to pass through. If there are holes in them they are smaller than one micron (in a condom that's 50 microns thick).
The HIV virus particle is 0.0001mm across. That may seem small to you but it would be like expecting a basketball to find its way through a tunnel in a rubber wall that's 37-1/2 feet thick and "something less than 9 inches across".
http://www.fda.gov/cdrh/ost/reports/fy98/INFECTION.HTM
"All the latex films representing a wide range of formulations and ages were effective barriers to transmission of the small virus."
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Here is the information on lambskin condoms. http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/resources/factsheets/transmission.htm
"There are many different types and brands of condoms available--however, only latex or polyurethane condoms provide a highly effective mechanical barrier to HIV. In laboratories, viruses occasionally have been shown to pass through natural membrane ("skin" or lambskin) condoms, which may contain natural pores and are therefore not recommended for disease prevention (they are documented to be effective for contraception). Women may wish to consider using the female condom when a male condom cannot be used."
THE SHORT VERSION: Latex condoms don't allow HIV to pass through them. The tests prove this, regardless of what somebody else may have told you. | |
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| How much do you trust a condom?
Posted: 9/17/2008 11:51:16 AM |
THE SHORT VERSION: Latex condoms don't allow HIV to pass through them. The tests prove this, regardless of what somebody else may have told you.
The SHORTER version: Condoms do not prevent the spread of HIV, period, regardless of type, brand or otherwise. HIV is transmitted by absorbing blood, semen, vaginal fluid, pre-jaculate or breast milk into the body, and those can happen in no less than a hundred different ways.
Let's also not forget that in the US, the spread of HIV is pandemic.
Have you shaved your lower abdomen lately? Has she shaved? Those little invisible razor burns... are you sure you didn't get a SINGLE DROP of vaginal fluid or semen on them?
What about any micro cuts on your hands as you're pleasuring your woman? A slightly torn cuticle on your finger? A small cut inside your mouth? (I have braces, they are there even if you don't bleed or recognize it).
Are you sure that condom is pulled all the way back, snug against your body? What about your balls, swinging and banging into the dripping vaginal fluid as you're having sex? Are those completely cut and scathe-free? Are you absolutely sure?
A condom can help prevent pregnancy, but it isn't 100%. It can help prevent the spread of HIV, but it certainly is not 100% either.
Don't believe the hype. Seriously, and please be careful when you're spreading further myths that condoms "prevent" HIV. They do no such thing. | |
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| How much do you trust a condom?
Posted: 9/17/2008 11:52:39 AM | | Not as all and I would never sleep with anyone that were not tested, If it makes him mad so be it and move on ...Why are men's prisons full of aides You might think and re think oral sex????? | |
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| How much do you trust a condom?
Posted: 9/17/2008 2:29:36 PM |
setuid: "The SHORTER version: Condoms do not prevent the spread of HIV, period, regardless of type, brand or otherwise. HIV is transmitted by absorbing blood, semen, vaginal fluid, pre-jaculate or breast milk into the body, and those can happen in no less than a hundred different ways."
The even SHORTER version: Stop having sex. Endorse not only an abstinence program but separate all humans by distance and connect them via something called "The Internet" so that the only allowable interaction is 100% cyber.
And while you're doing that, I'll be having sex. Enjoy your isolation. | |
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| How much do you trust a condom?
Posted: 9/17/2008 4:38:36 PM | Yep all those things that setuid mentionned could happen.
I don't preach abstinence, but I preach being educated about your risk - hence being able to maturely discuss your risk.
I'll say it again, I've talked with many men about sex (platonic and some in relationships) and honestly most men could (or would) not talk about sex or STD's. It's refreshing when I meet a man who CAN. Frankly, I won't settle for someone who can't. Interestingly enough, I found that when men can talk about STD's, they are able to talk about sex in a more "constructive" way too. But that's a theory so far.
Anyone else experience something similar (male or female)? | |
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