Condoms don't actually protect you from a lot of Sexually transmitted diseases. HPV and HIV can still be contracted even if you use a condom. They are viruses and only require skin to skin contact, not necessarily sex........The whole safe sex thing is very misleading.......
2007-02-10 17:26:22 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Women's Health
Don't believe me...look it up:
Latex rubber, from which latex gloves and condoms are made, has tiny, naturally occurring voids or capillaries measuring on the order of one micron in diameter. Pores or holes five microns in diameter have been detected in cross sections of latex gloves.{5} ( A micron is one thousandth of a millimeter.) Latex condoms will generally block the human sperm, which is much larger than the HIV virus. (A human sperm is about 60 microns long and three to five microns in diameter at the head.{6} But the HIV virus is only 0.1 micron in diameter.{7} A five- micron hole is 50 times larger than the HIV virus. A one-micron hole is 10 times larger. The virus can easily fit through. It's kind of like running a football play with no defense on the field to stop you or shooting a soccer ball into an open goal. The hole is huge!
2007-02-10 18:05:23 · update #1
Don't believe me.....ask the CDC...center for disease control what they think about the effective ness of condoms for preventing the spread of disease...
""The surest way to avoid transmission of sexually transmitted diseases is to abstain from sexual intercourse, or to be in a long-term mutually monogamous relationship with a partner who has been tested and you know is uninfected. For persons whose sexual behaviors place them at risk for STDs, correct and consistent use of the male latex condom can reduce the risk of STD transmission. However, no protective method is 100 percent effective, and condom use cannot guarantee absolute protection against any STD ...
2007-02-10 18:11:39 · update #2
You are partially correct.
HPV can be passed by skin-to-skin contact, but those are the strains that cause genital warts. The cervical cancer strains usually need to get deep into the vagina to do their damage.
HIV is definitely NOT spread by skin-to-skin contact (unless both people happen to have open wounds on parts of the body that are touching). I have touched MANY patients with HIV, and no virus has yet crawled out through their skin and in through mine!
I agree that there is no such thing as totally safe sex: Condoms fail or are misused, some STDs can circumvent condoms, etc. On the other hand, I am pragmatic enough to know that not all people will choose the safest form of sex (ie. abstinence); and for them, using a condom will provide significant protection against STDs.
2007-02-10 17:39:49 · answer #1 · answered by Eric 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
You can't get HIV from someone just by touching them without any fluids exchanging. There has to be an open wound or an exchange of bodily fluids for someone to contract HIV from another person. This is why condoms are 99% effective, IF used correctly. If a condom breaks, rips or slides off, of course the intercourse can no longer be called "safe sex."
2007-02-10 17:32:30 · answer #2 · answered by (channey) 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
That why it's actually called safer sex.
And yes, it's well known that skin-to-skin contact is all that's necessary to transmit many types of illnesses, including sexual transmitted ones.
Practicing abstience doesn't prevent rape or incest, so it's never a real form of protection.
If you've been burned by this lack of foreknowledge, then you have my sympathy.
2007-02-10 17:44:37 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What is your problem? Or is it just that you feel some sick duty to try and stop a natural human action that is protected via a condom. You know there are laws in several states for deliberately misleading people by giving false medical information.
Now tell me. Did God tell you to break the law. If so you better pray you can find someone who uses condoms if you end up in a penal institution.
2007-02-10 17:35:30 · answer #4 · answered by Terry 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Condoms do offer protection from HIV, but not from HPV, since HPV virus can also be present on areas not covered by condom, such as scrotum.
2007-02-10 17:30:54 · answer #5 · answered by sagatela 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
we all know that condoms are not 100% affective. however, hiv is not contractable except thru blood and sexual fluids.
2007-02-10 23:30:55 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's not misleading...
People like you are misleading people into thinking it's ok not to use them.
They not only HELP to protect against STI's but also from unwanted pregancies.
grow up!
2007-02-10 18:28:02 · answer #7 · answered by skye 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
That's why they have taken to calling it "safer sex."
2007-02-10 17:30:10 · answer #8 · answered by aqx99 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ok
2007-02-10 17:33:34 · answer #9 · answered by cesare214 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋