Confront the culture

Because I am dedicating these first few posts on this site to allowing you some insight into what's going on in this brain of mine and what's turning over in this spirit of mine, let's continue with a little confrontation.

Below is a one-minute speech I delivered at the 2004 Louisiana Governor's Program on Abstinence Spring State Convention in front of roughly 800 students and adults. I was a bit nervous but was privileged at this opportunity to kinda give a speech that's from the heart rather than being canned and well...just trite.

Check out the Governor's Program on Abstinence @ www.louisianagpa.com

“The Myth of Safe Sex”

“Safe” sex. Every time I hear that phrase I think of ignorance. As long as you or your partner is using a condom or spermicide it’s okay, right? Well if your answer is yes, you, like most of America’s population, have been dummied down.

Truth be told, yes, condoms prevent contraction of AIDS 85% of the time. But what about Gonorrhea, Chlamydia, Syphilis, Herpes, HPV? Condoms have ZERO clinical proof of effectiveness for each of these and many more sexually-transmitted diseases. So is it right to say that sex is “safe” if it only “saves” you from only one or two killer diseases? Give me a break!!! That’s like saying “drinking this glue will NOT make your toenails fall off but it WILL cause vomiting, paralysis, organ failure, and death” !!!

Okay, so you may resort to more “fail-safe” methods like withdrawal and not going “all the way”. But hey, Slick, you’re forgetting one thing: STDs are spread through mere sexual contact and it only takes a teeny-tiny cell to slip through and you’ve got a pregnancy on your hands.

And another word about condoms: if there happens to be a microscopic hole in the rubber, that STD’s gonna eat you for supper. And if a viral STD gets ahold of you, you’ll be stuck with it for life, if you do LIVE, that is.

So there’s no hope, right? WRONG. I’ll show you “safe sex.” Don’t “do the hustle” till you’ve said, “I do.”