[goldstategop]

Condoms offer SOME protection against pregnancy and sexual transmitted diseases - if they're used as directed. Liberals don't want people hearing the only FULL protection against getting pregnant and STD's is abstinence. Eeeny - minnie - moe. And the sky is green and the grass is blue.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[Clemenza]

Condoms, provided they don't break, do prevent against the Clap, Aids and Syphillis. They DO NOT do as good a job at preventing warts, herpes or other such diseases.

Both extremes are wrong. Condoms are indeed better than "bare backing" but are by no means a cure-all.

[Alter Kaker]

Condoms offer SOME protection against pregnancy and sexual transmitted diseases - if they're used as directed.

I'd phrase it differently. Condoms offer full protection against pregnancy and most sexual diseases if used correctly (obviously HPV and other diseases spread by skin contact don't fall into that). There has never been a confirmed case of anyone contracting an STD or becoming pregnant after using a condom correctly. The problem is that many people don't, and as a result, condoms break or fall off. So its in light of that -- that we say that condoms are only partially effective, because they allow for human error.