[afro-nets] How effective are male condoms in protecting men? (2)

["Jenipher Twebaze" <jennipher@chdc-muk.com>]

How effective are male condoms in protecting men? (2)
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Dear Daud Simba,

This is a good topic for discussion - about condoms!!!
I think that is a biased thinking that a condom protects only the 
woman! 

According to the explanation given, yes, it sounds so. However, we need 
to bear in mind that we are always told that a condom is not 100% safe! 
May be the remaining percentage could be explained that way.

But my thinking about this is that I assume that a condom protects 
direct contact of the female and male organs which are expected to have 
'entrances' of fluid contact where the virus could be transmitted. 
Therefore, by the time the secretions from the female get into contact 
with the man through the perineum, then I think the man already has an 
STD because it literally implies that the man either has wounds or 
cuttings around that place hence not supposed to get any sexual contact 
with anybody!

Otherwise, I still think the condom saves both male and female.

Thanks.

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Jenipher Twebaze
Child Health and Development Centre
Makerere University
Uganda.
mailto:jennipher@chdc-muk.com