For anyone who wants a footnote, read Laurie Garret's Betrayal of Trust, where you realize: crap, Africa really doesn't like condoms. Like men everywhere, they bad mouth condoms as belittling their machismo. And, in a country where AIDS is as prevalent as it is, that just puts more bullets in the revolver for the Russian roulette. In Africa, they don't like, want, or use condoms. Which means they're like men everywhere, with a high risk factor.
Africa is also a country where they had a "cure" for AIDS -- they had to sleep with a virgin, the younger the better. Which led to more babies being sexually abused than in all the Catholic parishes in all the world. But why bother with little, inconvenient details.
See, North America isn't the only continent that can have whole pockets of a cultural wasteland.
Uganda seems to be the only people who have used anti-AIDS measures to any great effectiveness. And part of that is .... wait for it ... abstinence! Gee, why couldn't the Catholic Church think of that?
Oh, wait, it did.
But, no, the Catholic Church is responsible because they're against condoms!
Um, I'm sorry, let's face it, if no one will listen to the Catholic Church badmouth premarital sex, why the hell does anyone think that people will listen about on condoms?
Can't you just see the conversation now?
The Church: "Don't screw around before you're married."
People in general: "Oh, who wants to listen to that crap? Sex is fun!"
The Church: "Don't use condoms, because sex, sanctified within the sacrament of marriage, is for procreation, as well as for an expression of love and for fun."
People in general: "No condoms, got it!"
Do people really think it works like that? Seriously? Beuller? Beuller?
And the Pope himself recently mentioned that, if you have an STD, condom use is actually a positive sign: if someone is using a condom while carrying an STD, that means that you are actively being responsible for your condition.
As Pope Benedict said, it's like robbing a bank. The Church would like you do not do it, but if you're going to do it, carrying a gun without bullets means you at least care about human life, if not human property.
But to screw around and say that you're being a good Catholic because you're not using a condom? That means you are a hypocrite, and that you will latch onto any doctrine, rumor, or halfway believable "truth" that will let you screw around without protection.
Just wait until they hear about "free love."
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