Why don condoms reduce Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs)?
The “condom sense” strategy that is being taught to high school students ignores a basic precept of human behaviour (especially men’s). Getting people to think about condoms in the middle of sexual arousal is counter intuitive and quite frankly unsuccessful. Yet condoms provide a false sense of security because the couple will say “hey, we can pursue this because we have protection.” The truth is that men just don’t like using condoms and when both partners are aroused, the lust takes on a life of its own, and their intentions to use condoms are often thrown by the wayside. Even if they do have “safer-sex”, once they feed the lust, there is a much greater chance that they will practice unsafe sex at some point. That is why chastity is a better strategy, because it does not feed the lust the way that contraception does. The National Post reported that 25% of women 15-25 years old have venereal warts. The virus passes right through condoms. Condoms often break and are often used “imprope
