Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), August 1993 issue, warns that condoms DO NOT protect against HIV infection from prostitutes, ‘Indeed, those who reported every having used a condom with a CSW (commercial sex worker) had a higher HIV prevalence.’
Dr Malcolm Potts, inventor of the lubricated condom with spermicide insists, ‘We do not know how much protection condoms give. Telling a person who engages in high-risk behaviour to use a condom is like telling someone who is driving drunk to wear a seatbelt.’
Conned by Condoms!
US Research Social Science Medicine. USA Vol. 36, No. 12, 1993 states that ‘Condoms are possibly only 87% effective for preventing pregnancy and 69% effective for reducing the risk of HIV infection.’
Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), Feb 6, 1987, states that 17% of partners using condoms for protection for 18 months became infected with HIV virus.
Family Practice News, June 15, 1992 issue, reports that ‘condoms do not provide much protection against Chlamydia and cervical papilloma virus infections’ and according to medical doctors J McIhaney and Tom Ellis in AIDS/HIV Facts, Fables and the Future, ‘These diseases are epidemic among sexually active teenagers.
Family Planning Perspectives, March/April 1992 issue, quotes a 1992 US Dept. of Health and Human Services study which states ‘STD's can be transmitted by genital contact alone or by genital discharge devoid of any semen or sperm, as is the case for Gonorrhoea, Chlamydia or Trichomonas.’
Sexually Transmitted Diseases, July/Aug 1992 issue, reports that 32% of normal, intact condoms leaked enough HIV particles to cause concern.’
Journal of Testing and Evaluation, Sept 1990 issue reports that the HIV virus could pass outside the condom because here are ‘pores present that are nearly 100 times the diameter of the virus.’
Rubber Chemistry and Technology, Vol. 62, 1989, documents that, ‘Laboratory tests revealed naturally occurring voids (defects) in latex that are 50-500 times larger than HIV.’
Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), August 1993 issue, warms that condoms DO NOT protect against HIV infection from prostitutes, ‘Indeed, those who reported every having used a condom with a CSW (commercial sex worker) had a higher HIV prevalence.’
University of Texas researcher Dr Susan Weller, writing in Social Science Medicine, Vol. 36, No. 12, in 1993, points out how porous condoms are and warns that ‘true permeability rates could be as high as 30-97%’.
Past President of the American Association of Sex Educators and member of the US National AIDS Commission, Dr Theresa Crenshaw, testifies to the high failure rate of condoms, and, before the US Congress on 10 February 1987, likened condom use to prevent AIDS, to playing ‘Russian Roulette’.
Other Quotes
Overseas
British Journal of Family Planning, Vol. 15, 1990 issue, conducted a survey of condom users and reported that ‘52% had experienced condoms bursting or slipping off in the previous three months’.
Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 1987, 258:1788-90 reported on a study of 97 female partners of 93 HIV infected men who used condoms. JAMA conclusion: Condom use is not significantly associated with protection from infection.
New England Journal of Medicine, Vol. 316, pp 1339-42, refers to a study where a group of AIDS patients and their spouses were evaluated. 3 out of 18 who used condoms regularly, became infected. This indicates a 1 in 6 probability of getting AIDS if you have sex using a condom with an infected person.
Dr Malcolm Potts, inventor of the lubricated condom with spermicide insists, ‘We do not know how much protection condoms give. Telling a person who engages in high-risk behaviour to use a condom is like telling someone who is driving drunk to wear a seatbelt.’
Australia
Commonwealth Dept. of Health, Housing and Community Services pamphlet (undated) entitled Safe Sex Guide - Girlfriend states: Condoms will not always protect you from herpes,’ ‘Condoms are not always 100% effective against genital warts.’
The Sun-Herald, 30 August 1987, quotes a US Dept. of Health Task Force study and says, ‘There is no clinical data supporting the value of condoms in preventing the spread of a range of diseases, including; Syphilis, Herpes, Hepatitis B and HIV.’
Australian Government publication, AIDS: A Time to Care - A Time to Act (1988) says ‘There is no evidence to show that tests (for condom standards) are suitable for determining the reliability of condoms as an HIV barrier.’
NSW Health Department publication, Sexually Transmitted Diseases and their Prevention (1991) says, ‘Condoms are more likely to break in anal sex, so do not rely on them - if you or your partner is carrying the AIDS virus.’
St Vincent's Bioethics Centre in Melbourne says it is misleading to promote safe sex with condoms.