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Condom Sense: A Guide to Sexual Survival in the New Millennium

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It is imperative that the message in this book becomes an indelible imprint in the minds of all of our planet's human
inhabitants.Each of us must accept personal responsibility for
bringing the spread of AIDS to a screeching halt.That is the
essence of Dr. Sweeney's powerful appeal.

This should be required reading for everyone, it is very easy to read, entertaining, and very informative. This book is good for all ages I hope the authors will translate it into spanish.
Maria

I thought I had all of the facts about condoms and STDs, and I was dead wrong. Do YOU know which, if any, forms of Hepatitis a condom protects you against, for instance? I didn't. This guide covers the material comprehensively.

Sweeney packs the guide with practical, life-saving information. It's a clear, concise, and (actually) entertaining read, despite the topic. I'm giving it to my friends for Valentine's Day. Everybody -- White/Black - Straight/Gay - Man/Woman - Adult/Child -- needs to either be informed for the first time, or have the facts laid out for them again. Condom Sense is a great way to do that. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.

I have read this book and am grateful for the information. Finally, a well-written, comprehensive, informative book that dispels many myth, myths that have been around for decades. With this book, you can arm teenagers and young adults with life saving information. Condom Sense is bold and brave in a time when even pharmacists are being given the power not to dispense The Pill for personal reasons. What is next? Condoms? I live in an area that has an alarming teen pregnancy rate and a growing AIDS epidemic. This same area is trying to make "abstinence only" the sex education policy of the schools. Condom Sense should be required reading. Thank you Dr. Monica Sweeney and Rita Grisman for taking on this subject in such an eloquent and necessary way. When will the book be available in Spanish?

The books makes no mention that condoms could not possibly afford protection against any virus nor even mentions the real and serious dangers associated with latex condom use. Hardy a word about the 57 FDA listed toxic proteins, the twenty plus FDA toxins nor the carcinogens and teratogens (cause birth defects).

The real facts as outlined by the Editor of Rubber Technology are simply ignored.

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Editor of Rubber Chemistry and Technology, Dr. C. Michael Roland of the
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory in Washington D.C., spoke about his
research on "intrinsic flaws" in latex rubber condoms and surgical gloves
(published in Rubber World, June, 1993).

Roland said that what I am about to relate is "common knowledge among good
scientists who have no political agenda."


Electron microscopy reveals the HIV virus to be about O.1 microns in size
(a micron is a millionth of a metre). It is 60 times smaller than a
syphilis bacterium, and 450 times smaller than a single human sperm.


The standard U.S. government leakage test (ASTM) will detect water leakage
through holes only as small as 10 to 12 microns (most condoms sold in
Canada are made in the U.S.A., but I'll mention the Canadian test below).
Roland says in good tests based on these standards, 33% of all condoms
tested allowed HIV-sized particles through, and that "spermicidal agents
such as nonoxonol-9 may actually ease the passage."


Roland's paper shows electron microscopy photos of natural latex. You can
see the natural holes, or intrinsic flaws. The "inherent defects in
natural rubber range between 5 and 70 microns."


And it's not as if governments don't know. A study by Dr. R.F. Carey of
the U.S. Centers for Disease Control reports that "leakage of HIV-sized
particles through latex condoms was detectable for as many as 29 of 89
condoms tested." These were brand new, pre-approved condoms. But Roland
says a closer reading of Carey's data actually yields a 78% HIV-leakage
rate, and concludes: "That the CDC would promote condoms based on [this]
study...suggests its agenda is concerned with something other than public
health and welfare." The federal government's standard tests, he adds,
"cannot detect flaws even 70 times larger than the AIDS virus." Such tests
are "blind to leakage volumes less tha one microliter - yet this quantity
of fluid from an AIDS-infected individual has been found to contain as
many as 100,000 HIV particles."


As one U.S. surgeon memorably put it, "The HIV virus can go through a
condom like a bullet through a tennis net."