Abstinence Clearinghouse

Celebrate World AIDS Day… Enjoy sex!
by Christina Espenscheid
[12.1.2006]

Celebrate World AIDS Day… Enjoy sex?

Celebrate World AIDS Day… Enjoy sex!

Yes, you read that right. This week, I went to an HIV prevention seminar hosted by The Condom Project. The presenter, a perky, beautiful, impeccably dressed young woman told us that the purpose of the “safer” sex demonstration was to understand that we should enjoy sex!

“Safer sex can be fun! Using a condom and lube doesn’t have to ruin the moment! Make it intimate, something that will bring you and your partners closer,” she told the table of 6 adults that had gathered at a local college for the demonstration. Apparently all the college students had better things to do than to see the “safer sexpert” do her thing.

Although the event was billed as HIV prevention (and I think state funds were used to host The Condom Project presenters – three flew in for the event) none of the content of the demonstration dealt with HIV. Sure, the sexpert discussed the benefits of latex vs. polyurethane vs. lamb skin condoms (some block HIV, one does not). She also demonstrated the proper use of dental dams. She spoke in explicit terms as to which different orifices needed which of the nearly 100 sex products she had on display (and sold by her other employer). She constantly informed us of which products are approved by the FDA for which explicit sex acts. She even showed us how to make an emergency dental dam from a condom (no mention of FDA approval for that medically-inaccurate demonstration).

In the end The Condom Project HIV Prevention was two things: 1. An advertisement for a sex products business where everything could be bought online and “delivered in discrete brown packaging.” And 2. A promotion for promiscuous sex acts… As long as you use a properly fitted condom, “And this brand, which we sell, comes in 70 different sizes,” according to the sexpert, as she distributed the order form and sizing chart.

No wonder there are so many people dying from AIDS and HIV. The Condom Project works in 10 countries to “demystify and destigmatize condoms.” Instead, they demystify and destigmatize promiscuous sex practices which spread AIDS! When condoms fail, and they do, people die. Like it or not, even with drug treatment, people do die from HIV/AIDS.

Only abstinence from promiscuous sex, and being monogamous in marriage to an uninfected spouse will stop the spread of AIDS. When I commemorate World AIDS Day, I will tell my students to enjoy sex, but only in marriage.