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People who use condoms on a regular basis to protect them selves are on the right track in keeping themselves and their loved ones safe. They tend to be responsible teenagers and young adults and even some more mature and married couples. But problems still exist to a large extent.
There are a number of factors that come into play when taking about condoms and STD’s. One is proper use of the condom if used wrong they may break and could lead to transmissions of different STDs and pregnancy. This is a huge problem because when you think about it, it only needs to happen one time and you could be infected. Another factor contributing to the spread of high risk STDs is misinformation. People generally think if they use a condom they won’t catch anything and this is very wrong. When used properly a condom is quite effective in stopping the spread of certain STDs such as Chlamydia, Gonorrhea, HIV/AIDS, and most strains of Hepatitis, But is not very effective at all against diseases like the Herpes Simplex Virus strains 1 and 2, HPV the cause of Genital Warts and Cervical Cancer, Genital Crabs or Pubic Lice, as well as Body Lice otherwise known as Scabies.
Why Don’t Condoms Work To Stop The Spread Of Certain STDs
The reason that these diseases get around condoms is that they are not transmitted through sexual fluids, but through simple human skin contact. HPV is one of the most prominent and most widely spread STDs in the United States the reason being when the skin from one sexual organ touches the other you run the chance of catching HPV and getting Genital Warts. The same goes with herpes, which is another, like HPV, incurable Sexually Transmitted Disease. Scabies and Crabs are both parasitic insects that feed off the human body and can pass between partners when any touching is involved.
http://yourstdhelp.com/condoms_and_stds.html
Holes in Condoms . . .
STDs are very tiny organisms, minuscule in size compared to sperm. These super-small viruses can get through a hole in a condom much more easily than sperm can. For example, HIV (the AIDS-causing virus) is so small that two million of the disease-causing agents could crowd on the period at the end of a sentence.
In 1993 the University of Texas analyzed the results of 11 different studies that had tracked the effectiveness of condoms to prevent transmission of the AIDS virus. The average condom failure rate in the 11 studies for preventing transmission of the AIDS virus was 31%.
One reason condoms fail in preventing the transfer of AIDS is that latex condoms have tiny intrinsic holes called "voids." Sperm is larger than the holes, but the AIDS virus is 50 times smaller than these tiny holes which makes it easy for the virus to pass through [Source: Dr. C. M. Roland, editor of Rubber Chemistry and Technology]. To give you an idea of how easy it would be for the virus to pass through these holes, just imagine a ping pong ball going through a basketball hoop.
Girls Still Get Pregnant!
Did you know that you can use a condom and still get pregnant? A variety of studies have found that condoms have an "annual failure rate" of 10% to 36% when it comes to preventing pregnancy.
Can you imagine the consequences for a couple when their condom fails? It happens all the time! One of the studies found that among teenagers, the condom failure rate regarding pregnancy was 36%! On average, that means that one out of every three teenage couples using condoms will become pregnant each year.
http://www.prolife.com/condoms.html
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