condoms make aids worse

haffajappa

decides2dream wrote:

haffajappa wrote:

decides2dream wrote:

and i think that was the *point* a few were making in this thread: where is there any PROOF that we are more promiscuous? people have been fucking around since the beginnings of time. premarital sex, adulterous sex, all kindsa sex....has always existed and probably always will. and people were having all this promiscuous sex with ALL the risks associated, and they STILL were fucking anyway! that's the whole point. people have, can, and will continue to have sex, so why not ENCOURAGE safe sex, since we actually do have that option today?

yea exactly... safe sex exists, the only difference between promiscuity now and promiscuity then is that we have the ability to have sex more safely...

the church doesnt even let you use contraception when you're married... so the issue isn't entirely the promotion of promiscuity... its just teh church being stuck in their ways because of weird rules they made up 'in the name of God' or whatever

absolutely. and i know that AIDs didn't exist way back when, but they STILL had STDs, and while many of them aren't so dangerous anymore...back then, they probably were since they didn't have the same treatments as we do today. besides which, the biggest 'worry' of unprotected sex - pregnancy - carried a LOT higher price/stigma and people STILL fucked w/o protection. i mean, helloooooooooo? how many unplanned pregnancies occur EVERY year, even in this country, let alone elsewhere....and we DO have access to BC, so yes.....people will fuck, with and w/o protection, even in the the age of AIDs.


and yes, it's not just about promiscuity as you say....it's simply about the church still wanting that *control*....saying what is right/wrong....and that we are NOT to be altering/controlling our own reproduction and bodies.

not to mention that these rules were made in a time where the earths population was a fraction of what it is today... which makes these out of date religious stipulations even more ridiculous. popping out lots of kids made sense when contraception didnt exist, infant mortality and child death was extremely high, and most importantly, when the population of the earth wasn't catastrophic.

it took the catholic church over 350 years to apologize for condemning Galileo for teaching the sun was the centre of the solar system... they're not exactly the epitome of basing their judgements and accusations on facts - and they're certainly not going to change their narrowminded views for sake of the truth over their 'rules'.