Condoms not always safe \273 Moultrie Observer

Without the condom, do you really think the student is abstaining?” Certainly the risks of a student (or other unmarried person) having sex with a condom are less than without a condom, but that does not mean that having sex with a condom is not “so bad” or by any means “safe”, nor should we assume that no students are abstaining from sex. [...] What are the possible consequences of having sex outside of marriage, assuming that a condom is used? I will address my comments to the parents of the boy. [...] Condoms are less effective in preventing transmission of other diseases: about 70% for HPV that may not bother your circumcised son, but could result in cancer of the cervix in girls he infects (and if it comes in contact with the mouth can cause cancer of the mouth and throat in men and women); about 50% for gonorrhea or Chlamydia, diseases that may case a discharge in boys and girls, or abdomina. [...] The number of teens who abstain from sex dropped dramatically from after the “Sexual Revolution” that started in California in the 1960s until about 1991, but in the last 2 decades teens are learning not to make the same mistakes that many of their parents made and are increasingly choosing to wait to have sex. [...] In 1988, 40% of teen boys and 49% of teen girls were virgins (the double standard was still alive); by 2006-10 58% of teen boys and 57% of girls were virgins (72% of 15-17 year olds and 36% of 18-19 year olds).