Is the aids virus smaller than the holes in a condom?

Question

I have raised this question again simply because I feel there is a need to reinform people on this one.

I am a PhD scientist and I can tell you for certain that it has been proven that condoms do not prevent the contraction of HIV/AIDs. The virus is actually smaller than the latex barrier. I was so horrified when I learnt of this fact that I have been doing my best ever since to try and warn people that would otherwise not put their lives in danger if they realized this.

A study carried out at University of Miami Medical School which used live couples to test HIV transmission found "that 3 out of 10 women whose husbands are HIV positive and were always using a fresh condom for each intercourse, contracted AIDS Related Complexes (ARC) in an 18-month period". This translates into an infection rate of 11.2 per cent first year, 21 per cent in 2 years, 30 per cent in 3 years, 45 per cent in 5 years and 70 per cent in 10 years.

Answer 1

Then why are you asking if you know??

bad mojo loser

Answer 2

Well dear Helena, it is in fact smaller then the holes in the condom, however, the time during intercourse is not really long enough for a large number of the viral particles to penetrate the latex, and all the fluid (sperm) remains safely in the condom. So the condom conciderably decreses the risk, and it is almost perfactly safe. Taking into account that even if all the 3mL of sperm come into the female vagina, the risk of infection (with all of these viral particles) is still only a few percent. Now, if no sperm comes into the vagina and only a few viral particles do, the risk is almost not present.
These researches and claims are facilitated mostly by uninformed people on basis of unreasonable thinking, and by members of the church, because their attitude is that using condoms is a sin. So, people, use them further. And the small possibility of getting AIDS is also present when only kissing (over saliva and small wounds in the mouth). Therefore, no need to induce panic, only because some people are forcing to make for themselves new spectacular research results and make their PHD degrees on something stupid.

Answer 3

Sometimes if the condom is not worn properly then it can rip, tear, or break then the virus is easily spreaded in to a victim. The microscopic wholes of the condom will prevent the HIV from entering into someone but when the latex stretchs so does the microscopic wholes on the condom. Sex is a very dangerous game!

Answer 4

What PhD candidate spells percent as 2 words and uses outdated information from the early 1990s?

Stop cutting and pasting propoganda on the web.

Whilee it is true that the AIDS virus itself is smaller than the holes in single diact is that condoms DO prevent the transmission of AIDS.

Read on: http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a940506.html

Answer 5

Wow. I can't believe people like you are still spreading misinformation like this. Do you work for the Vatican, too? They are one of the biggest spreaders of this particular lie.
Religion obviously is based solely on beliefs, be they virgin births, walking on water, Adam and Steve (I mean Eve), etc. Science and common sense sometimes get in the way of these belief systems ... the science of evolution versus the belief of creationism, etc.

It is absolutely categorically UNTRUE. Anti-science religions, like the Catholic Church, believe that condoms are nothing more than Swiss cheese. Science, on the other hand, has confirmed repeatedly that HIV cannot permeate intact latex. No way. No how. Actually, it's hard for me to really accept that they actually truly believe this obvious fallacy, but they most likely continue to promote it because it fits in nicely with their other agendas.

Condoms are impermeable to water, air and ELECTRONS!. While HIV is smaller than sperm, it is larger than air, water, and electrons so it cannot pass through a condom.

Latex condoms have to meet minimum quality standards. Before it is packaged, each and every condom is fitted on an underwater, metal rod and zapped with a weak electrical charge. If the electrical charge passes through a hole or weak spot in the condom, it is thrown away. Batches of condoms are randomly selected and filled with a sort of viral soup to test for leaks. If one condom fails the leakage test, the whole lot is discarded.

Condom failure is almost exclusively due to human error, such as using oil-based lubricants, using old, expired condoms, leaving them in the sun or a hot place (such as your pocket), or tearing them with your fingernails and teeth as you struggle to get them out of the package. OR not using them consistently.

STOP SPREADING MISINFORMATION (cough..lies)

Answer 6

I learnt in high school that you must picture the holes in the material of a condom as a door frame and an HI-virus as a tennis ball. So imagine how easily a tennis ball can be thrown through a door way.

Answer 7

Yes, I suppose if you will use a pin to put holes in the condoms, then they will indeed be ineffective against the spread of AIDS.

Answer 8

WHat is your PhD in and from where?
Please give details of the UMiami study and where it can be accessed.
I do not have an answer to your question.

Answer 9

Compared to the size of a golf-ball through a door.

Are you trying to ruin my vacation?

Watch this


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmhaO588waM

Answer 10

blimey thanx for sharing that with us though, i mean now that has really depressed my day glad im with someone and know theres no chance of catching aids/hiv virus

Answer 11

why don't you give source of that so called study at University of Miami?