Vatican lies about condoms

[avram]

I’ve seen on two people’s journals today that the Vatican is telling people that condoms don’t cut down on the spread of AIDS.

I hunted around a bit for details, and found the Straight Dope: They’re just passing around a bit of false information that the anti-sex people have been spouting for at least a decade, since 1992, when Mike Roland (editor of Rubber Chemistry and Technology) wrote to The Washington Times claiming that the latex used in condoms has intrinsic pores around 5 microns in size, which would let the HIV virus (0.1 micron) float right through.

Thing is, Roland didn’t examine condoms, he examined latex gloves, which are made to much looser standards. (And even those standards have been tightened up since then.)

This would explain why lab tests have shown that no known STD can penetrate an intact condom.

And you folks in the Vatican, remember: False witness and fraudulent council both get you the Eighth Circle, so better get yourself to confession!

Comments

[womzilla.livejournal.com]

The Vatican has been intellectually bankrupt on pretty much everything dealing with contraception at least since the 1930s and on pretty much everything dealing with sex since, oh, about the dawn of time. It doesn't surprise me in the slightest that they're comfortable about peddling outright lies on the subject, except insofar as I would expect them to not want to get caught.