High School Condom Club For Teens?

The World Net Daily reports that Berkley High School in the Bay Area university town has a registered Condom Club that offers students 12 free condoms a week.

An ad for the club in the student bulletin read: "Having sex? Thinking about having sex? Come to CONDOM CLUB at lunch in A205. One meeting will get you a sticker on your ID that gives you 12 free condoms each week from the BHS Health Center."

I remember a time when boys who oogled girls in the hallway received demerits. Now, the administration is sponsoring a CONDOM CLUB -- encouraging students to engage in sexual intercourse? Does this occur in schools in other states as well or is this yet another example of California craziness?

It seems as if there is a multitude of information out there warning our youth about the dangers of veneral diseases, but there is very little mention of the resulting emotional damage that is done when a person engages in uncommitted sex. The destructive psychological consequences of temporary sexual relationships are VERY REAL. There are also serious physical dangers involved. STDs can rob a person of their health and even their life.

Condoms don't remove these dangers. Studies have shown condoms to have an annual failure rate of 10 percent to 36 percent in preventing pregnancy because of human error in using them and because they sometimes leak, break, or slip off. So how safe can condoms be when it comes to AIDS?

In a 1993 analysis of 11 different medical studies, condoms were found to have a 31% average failure rate in preventing the sexual transmission of the AIDS virus.

Condoms also do little or nothing to protect against the two STDs infecting at least one-third (1/3) of sexually active teenage girls. The two venereal diseases are:

1) Human Papilloma Virus (HPV is the leading cause of cervical cancer and it kills about 7,000 women each year), and

2) Chlamydia (the leading cause of infertility)

Both of these venereal diseases can be transmitted by skin-to-skin contact in the entire genital area, only a small part of which is covered by the condom. Do the schools warn students of these dangers when they promote condoms as tools for "safe sex"?

And, what about the spiritual consequences of this behavior? Have the parents lost all sense of moral and spiritual values? What kind of parents would allow a Condom Club in their youngster's school?

What happens if the condoms fail and the student contracts an STD or becomes pregnant? Is the school then going to follow up on and provide the counseling, the medical care, and the financial assistance that the student needs? Will they also provide for the needs of the baby?
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