An old friend of mine from high school, LG, is a sexy little sexual education nurse for a clinic here in our city.  L, if I got your exact title wrong, I apologize!  Anyway, today on Facebook, she posted: “Irony: 90 people get the Swine Flu and everybody wants to wear a mask. A million people have HIV and no one wants to wear a condom”. 

I thought this was great, and used (copied!!) it as a tweet on Twitter.  What were the results, you ask?  Well, let me tell you!  I lost about 20 followers!  WTF!  Last time I talked about my Twitter followers (The Homophobia post), I only had about 250 followers and I now have almost 1600.  So, really no big deal, I don’t care if I lose followers.  The point is WHY I lost them!

Are people still that against the use of condoms?  We know so much about prevention and the spread of diseases and a lot of people out there still think that it is morally wrong or a sin to wear a condom.  It literally blows my mind.  We all know that every generation of teens becomes more and more sexually active (and thinking back 25 years, I thought we were very sexually aware!) and for all the talk of abstinence, most will become sexually active by the time they graduate high school.

Justin and Britney have admitted that they lied about being virgins when they were together.  There are people like Jordin Sparks and the Jonas Brothers that  are committed to abstinence, but even the Jonas Brothers are backtracking on all that.  What I’m saying is, they’re going to do it anyway, why don’t we educate and protect our children!  I would hate to be a parent that refused to discuss sex and protection with my child and have her come home to tell me she has been diagnosed with an STI or HIV.

A certain number of young people (and some not so young) will be sexually active with multiple partners.  I’m not going to pass judgement on them because most of these people are actually looking for something more than sex, they just don’t know how to find it.  When these people find what they need, what good is it if they are committed to a life sentence from a sexually transmitted infection?  What about the poor, exploited women who have few choices in their lives?  I’m referring mostly to the horrific situation with AIDS in Africa, but it occurs to a lesser extent everywhere around the globe.

So bottom line, I really have no patience for people who are offended by me making an observation about condom use.  I get really irate when I discover that there are still so many people out there that want to stick their heads in the sand and pretend that these things don’t happen and we CAN stop the spread of such a hideous disease.  To all those people, I say “Pbbbbbbbtttttt, go away then, I don’t want you following me”!