Controversy Over Condoms, Safe-Sex Advice for Students
So, Lou Sheldon is opposed to ACT-UP providing safer-sex information and condoms to high school students because it is “handing them a gun and telling them to go play Russian roulette.” Well, I’m sorry, but teen-age hormones and our sex-obsessed society have already put a loaded gun into their jeans!
By offering teen-agers education and condoms, ACT-UP is saying, “If you’re not going to choose abstinence, using a condom makes sure that 80% of the bullets are blanks.”
Even “safer sex” is still risky, but with half of our kids already engaging in unprotected sex, it’s criminal not to provide condoms to anyone who wants them. Keep it up, ACT-UP. Action equals life.
LARKETTE LEIN, Costa Mesa
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