Recently I was at a Luce Institute lunch where a young woman vigorously attacked the factual statement in the Sense & Sexuality pamphlet: “the rectum is an exit, not an entrance.”
This student was totally convinced – passionately sure – this was a safe way to have sex, and she had absolutely no interest in hearing about the blunt U.S.FDA warnings regarding condom failures and the increased chances of getting AIDS:
Q – Are condoms strong enough for anal intercourse?
A – The Surgeon General (C. Everett Koop, Surgeon General 1982-1989) has said, “Condoms provide some protection, but anal intercourse is simply too dangerous to practice.”
Condoms may be more likely to break during anal intercourse than during other types of sex because of the greater amount of friction and other stresses involved.
Even if the condom doesn’t break, anal intercourse is very risky because it can cause tissue in the rectum to tear and bleed. These tears allow disease germs to pass more easily from one partner to the other.
Please, ladies, look at the studies for yourself. Life is too precious to get an incurable disease because of pigheaded ignorance.
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The issues this post raises are about safe sex and the possibility of transmitting STDs. Other posters have eloquently questioned those arguments. But that doesn’t even consider the possibility that people could have anal sex in long term relationships, after they’ve been tested for diseases and are sure everything is safe. If you’re not risking an “incurable disease,” what is the risk supposed to be? Anal sex with someone you just met is a disease risk, but that hardly proves that “the rectum is an exit, not an entrance.”
To draw an analogy, many committed couples go condom-free and have unprotected sex all the time in order to try for a baby. That same behavior would be terribly risky if you tried it with all the guys you meet at the local dive bar. By your logic, then, it’s terribly unnatural to have vaginal intercourse to get pregnant, & no one should ever do it.
I wonder if any of the ladies who responded know of women, married or not, who became pregnant while using condoms? Of course they do – we all know women who have created babies while using condoms-both now and 20 years ago when Surgeon General Koop said they just don’t do the trick. Please use common sense and think a little more deeply about this. Jane