True Love Waits (Until Someone with a Clue Teaches Sex Ed)

[Dinner]

Nope, most condoms used to be made out of lamb skin but as plastics became better latex became the standard. Today you can still find lamb skin condoms at the drug store but lamb skin doesn't stop HIV so for the last 20 years doctors have been trying to discourage their use.

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by DRoseDARs
Lamb skin condom? Is that some roundabout way of engaging in beastiality?

Precursor to the latex variety, used by the likes of the Romans, British Regency rakes, and Giacomo Casanova.


In Japan they used tortoiseshell sheaths....

[DRoseDARs]

*Shudder*

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by DRoseDARs
*Shudder*

Could be worse- they could use the fingers crossed and hope for the best method....

[DRoseDARs]

Could be? That's the method fundies are trying to have taught.

@ this insanity.

[Dinner]

If someone says condoms don't have an extremely high rate of stopping STDs then either their full of it or they're talking about lamb skin. If the couple knows how to properly put on the condom; i.e. pinch the tip to get the air out, leave a bit extra at the top, roll it back and don't put on petroluem jelly which can damage the latex then they're damn near fool proof.

Of course sex ed which teaches young people helpful little things like that is exactly what the fundies want to put a stop to.

[MikeH]

You can still buy lamb skin condoms?!

[Chaunk]

Some people are allergic to latex I guess.

[MikeH]

Good point, I've never seen them though.

[Dinner]

Originally posted by MikeH
You can still buy lamb skin condoms?!

There are two brands on the market that I can think of though I've never used them.

[Drake Tungsten]

In Japan they used tortoiseshell sheaths....

They're awesome...

[MikeH]

On CG my laughter at that would be considered ironic.

[Sikander]

Originally posted by Rufus T. Firefly


Nonsense. It may not merit A1, but Abstinence Only Ed has been under attack for a long time from a variety of quarters for just this kind of problem. Having a Congressional report document the abuse of both our tax dollars and our children's minds is long overdue.

If they were serious about simply informing the public they wouldn't release a bunch of wild anecdotes in place of some statistics which could put this into perpective. This happens all too often with congressional reports, and Dan S is right about Waxman. It's his full time job to be outraged at the wildest things he can cull from a mountain of evidence.

[DRoseDARs]

Allow me to sign off with a joke done in poor taste.*

Spoiler:

A lover spits. A true love swallows. A show-off gargles.

*Apologies for the pun.

/me signs off for the night.

[The diplomat]

Just because the sex ed program has errors in it, does not mean that we should automatically throw out all abstinence programs. The answer is to fix the errors so that the material gives students correct information. The concept of abstinence is good, you just have to teach it right.