The condom ring tones are a terrific novelty. So are the party favor condoms. But listening and looking do protect against babies or liars!
Without incriminating anyone, we went on a condom hunt one night in Boston. We wondered why it is so difficult to get men to wear condoms. Well, it didn’t take long to figure out that there are more choices regarding condoms than there were shoes in Imelda’s closet.
It takes a long time to read and try to make sense of the choices. And so, I am going to send all of you out there in the Blogsphere to do that research yourselves — or surely you are near a drug store!
But in the interim, here it is again: Condom Ring Tones the story, and www.condomcondom.org, the sound.
Condon party favors: Party Favors
And from Mayo Clinic, condom use: Mayo Clinic on Condoms
Keep in mind that the goal of a condom is to help curb sexually transmitted diseases in addition to preventing conception.
There seems to be a myth that not everyone is suspectible to herpes or STDs. Just not true. STDs and Herpes do not care whom they latch onto. A sad state of affairs, at least happening in the US, is that some women and men are withholding information from a partner with regard to herpes.
Some do it deliberately, not wanting to put a damper on a new relationship. Others conveniently “forget” to disclose, or claim that they had an outbreak years ago and forgot that it could be contagious. To this group I have no problem in saying, ”Liar, Liar, pants on fire.”
Don’t think because you are a doctor, lawyer, business executive or professor that you are safe because you are careful about the partners whom you choose — STDs cut across all cultural lines.
Copyright 2008 Rita Watson