Friday, January 09, 2009

Gee - What a surprise

I wish we could come up with something more user friendly than condoms. Have a read of this study I found in Medical News Today

Eve Rose of Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health -- examined condom use among teenagers in an HIV prevention program. In the study, 186 young women ages 15 to 21 said that they used condoms every time they had sex in the previous two weeks. The participants also provided vaginal samples for sperm testing. Wetzstein writes, "With 100% condom use, there should have been zero sperm in the samples. But lab analysis showed that in a third of the samples (34%), some tiny soldiers sneaked in anyway." According to the study, the presence of sperm in the samples could have been the result of user error -- such condom breakage or late application -- and over-reporting of condom use.

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