Sleeping With The Virus

January, 1995

The lies are everywhere. In New York City one of a series of subway ads sponsored by the Catholic League warns: "Want to know a dirty little secret? Condoms don't save lives." Focus on the Family, a conservative religious group, takes out full-page ads with a boldfaced headline: In Defense of a Little Virginity. The text of the ad is crammed with "statistics": "The University of Texas Medical Branch recently found that condoms are only 69 percent effective in preventing...