Condoms Are Not The Answer For The Prevention Of STDs / Educational Docudrama

Condoms Are Not The Answer For The Prevention Of Venereal Disease / Educational Documentary. Production Company: Centron; Sponsor: Kansas Board of Health; Keywords: venereal disease; public hygiene. Creative Commons license: Public Domain. Title music has been replaced with royalty free music from the Music Bakery.

A sexually transmitted disease (STD), also known as sexually transmitted infection (STI) or venereal disease (VD), is an illness that has a significant probability of transmission between humans or animals by means of sexual contact, including vaginal intercourse, oral sex, and anal sex. While in the past, these illnesses have mostly been referred to as STDs or VD, in recent years the term sexually transmitted infection (STI) has been preferred, as it has a broader range of meaning; a person may be infected, and may potentially infect others, without showing signs of disease. Some STIs can also be transmitted via use of an IV drug needle after its use by an infected person, as well as through childbirth or breastfeeding. Sexually transmitted infections have been well known for hundreds of years.

Until the 1990s, STDs were commonly known as venereal diseases : Veneris is the Latin genitive form of the name Venus, the Roman goddess of love. Social disease was another euphemism.

Public health officials originally introduced the term sexually transmitted infection, which clinicians are increasingly using alongside the term sexually transmitted disease in order to distinguish it from the former. According to the Ethiopian Aids Resource Center FAQ, "Sometimes the terms STI and STD are used interchangeably. This can be confusing and not always accurate, so it helps first to understand the difference between infection and disease. Infection simply means that a germ — virus, bacteria, or parasite — that can cause disease or sickness is present inside a persons body. An infected person does not necessarily have any symptoms or signs that the virus or bacteria is actually hurting his or her body; they do not necessarily feel sick. A disease means that the infection is actually causing the infected person to feel sick, or to notice something is wrong. For this reason, the term STI — which refers to infection with any germ that can cause an STD, even if the infected person has no symptoms — is a much broader term than STD." The distinction being made, however, is closer to that between a colonization and an infection, rather than between an infection and a disease.

Specifically, the term STD refers only to infections that are causing symptoms. Because most of the time people do not know that they are infected with an STD until they start showing symptoms of disease, most people use the term STD, even though the term STI is also appropriate in many cases.

Moreover, the term sexually transmissible disease is sometimes used since it is less restrictive in consideration of other factors or means of transmission. For instance, meningitis is transmissible by means of sexual contact but is not labeled as an STI because sexual contact is not the primary vector for the pathogens that cause meningitis. This discrepancy is addressed by the probability of infection by means other than sexual contact. In general, an STI is an infection that has a negligible probability of transmission by means other than sexual contact, but has a realistic means of transmission by sexual contact (more sophisticated means — blood transfusion, sharing of hypodermic needles —are not taken into account). Thus, one may presume that, if a person is infected with an STI, e.g., chlamydia, gonorrhea, genital herpes, it was transmitted to him/her by means of sexual contact.

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[teton99]

Senior Harvard AIDS Prevention Researcher Dr. Edward Green

According to Dr. Green, science is finding that the media is actually on the wrong side of the issue. In fact, Green says that not only do condoms not work, but that they may be exacerbating the problem in Africa.

Dr. Green found that part of the elusive reason is a phenomenon known as Risk Compensation or Behavioral Disinhibition.

[rosaryfilms]

teton99, could you explain further please?

[teton99]

Here's the title to the article:

Harvard Researcher agrees with Pope on condoms in Africa

March 23 2009

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[rosaryfilms]

teton99, thank you very much!

[nordette]

hey rosary i was wondering if you actually know of a reference in the bible where it specifically says the only way you should be having sex is after marriage. I was having a discussion with a friend and neither of us could find one, it would really help me out- thanks

[SeeYouNextFall]

Ok, 50% may not be planned, but that means 50% that ARE planned.

So can you tell me where in the Bible it says that Adam and Eve (if they existed) had a ceremony that says they were married before sex?

And by the way, why should you and your church decide what I do in my bedroom with my fiance?

As Americans, we have the choice to be a Christian or not.

And you you also tell me where in the bible it says that a man and woman MUST be married before having sex?

Thank you.

[the1nonlymeee]

I don't know why you've been thumbed down, you're absolutly right.

Condoms are the biggest cause of AIDS and other diseases in places like Africa and Spain. They're not discarded properly or used properly, so instead of benifitting,they do much worse

[rosaryfilms]

nordette, there are hundreds of references in the Bible that fornication is a sin. Please do a Biblical keyword search on "fornication".

[rosaryfilms]

SeeYouNextFall, show me where it says that they did NOT get married. Fornication has always been forbidden in the Old Testmand and New Testament for many reasons. Fornication is forbidden in the Bible, there are many, many references.

[rosaryfilms]

Freedaaa, you are welcome!

[Freedaaa]

thx, rosaryfilms