Wednesday, May 28, 2003

STUDY REVEALS WHAT ANYBODY
WITH HALF A BRAIN ALREADY KNOWS
Condoms Don't Increase Teen Sex


Teenagers at high schools where condoms were available were no more likely to have sex than other teens, a study says.

The study published Wednesday backs earlier research on the programs developed in the 1990s to stem the spread of HIV and reduce teen pregnancy. It says that students in high schools with condom programs were more likely to use condoms, while students in other high schools were more likely to use other forms of birth control.


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The notion that making condoms available to teens influences them to have more sex is absurd. The steady tidal wave of sexual images, sounds, and irresponsibility rammed down America's throat by the mass media on a daily basis surely has more to do with teen promiscuity than school sex education and health programs: to imagine that, somehow, the quiet, subtle, whisper of sexuality implied by high school condom availability is able to cut through the cacophonous din of hoochy TV, film, and music polluting the airwaves is truly irrational.

Why do we need a study to tell us that?

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