The condom propaganda is one Big Lie!
Most of the information with which we are fed today about the effectiveness of the condom are at best half truths. The full truth is that the condom is not reliable in preventing the transmission of AIDS and other STD s and even in preventing pregnancies.
Not even the most hardened of professional liars can deny the fact that latex condoms have tiny naturally occurring holes called voids. But condom manufacturers, in their greed for more money, try to hide this fact. They base heir arguments on the Standard Condom Permeability Test (SCPT). It involves filling a condom with 300millilitres of water, drying it off, and rolling it on a piece of paper to assist in detecting leaks. The test reveals that generally the water will not leak through. Therefore, they conclude that condoms have no leakages; and that neither sperm cell nor the HIV virus nor any body fluid can pass through the condom so as to cause infection or pregnancy. So they broadcast it everywhere in the world that the condom is safe.
But scientists who know their left from their right say this is a fairy tale and not scientific argument. In conducting the same SCPT, they did not only rely on the naturally occurring holes. They added other holes by puncturing those condoms with holes having a diameter of ten microns each. This is one hundred times the diameter of a single HIV virus! With this experiment, 75% of the condoms used actually proved to be water-tight despite the presence of many holes one hundred times the diameter of a single HIV virus!
The scientists then concluded that the fact that water does not pass through a condom is no guarantee that it has not got holes. The reason why water will not go through is the fact that water molecules stick to each other because of the hydrogen bonding. Thus clumped, water molecules bridge the condom gaps. But the HIV virus has not got the above property and it is far smaller than water molecules. All these make it very easy for the HIV virus to swim through the condom and infect the uninfected victim.
So, the argument we hear everyday that condoms are safe merely because some of them have passed the SCPT is a farce. It is an evil trick used by condom manufacturers to sell their product.
It is true that a sperm cell is larger than these voids occurring naturally on the latex condom. But the AIDS virus is fifty times smaller than these tiny holes which make it easy for the virus to pass through; as easy as it is for a house cat to walk through an open double garage door!
Microbes responsible for STDs are also very tiny organisms, weigh smaller in size than the sperm cell. These super-small organisms can get through a hole in a condom much more easily than sperm cells. So, as far as the transmission of STDs is concerned, the condom offers no protection!
We can imagine the enormous danger into which condom users abandon themselves when we consider that the findings of the expert reveal that the holes in a standard latex condom are ten microns in diameter, a male sperm is forty five microns but the HIV virus is only one micron! We must remember that the condom was originally manufactured solely for the immoral purpose of preventing conception- a job it often fails to do perfectly. Later, it was assigned the second job of policing STDs. With the outbreak of the HIV pandemic, condom manufacturers suddenly saw a whole new possibility to get rich overnight. For some evil people it was treacherously put forward as the solution to the AIDS onslaught.
It should also be noted that condoms, if taken out of the package and left unused for a long period of time, are liable to Ozone deterioration, which causes damages invisible to the eyes. It needs no further proof for us to conclude that condoms are not as safe as we are made to believe, when we recall that certain conditions like exposure to sunlight, heat (including body heat when placed in pockets or wallets), humidity, pressure and certain spermicides, contribute to the degradation of the latex condom. All these make the condom absolutely unreliable.
Culled from SEARCHLIGHT No 90 December 2007
Published by Saint Thomas Aquinas’ Major Seminary, Bambui- Bamenda.
