Posted on 01/13/2006 3:43:07 PM PST by freepatriot32
BOGOTA, Colombia - A western Colombian city councilman wants to require everyone in town 14 or older to carry a condom to prevent pregnancy and disease, outraging local priests.
William Pena, a councilman in Tulua, said Wednesday he will present a formal proposal to force all men and women _ even those just visiting _ to always carry at least one condom. Those caught empty-pocketed could pay a fine of $180 or take a safe sex course, he said.
"Sexual relations are going on constantly," Pena told The Associated Press by telephone. "If you carry a condom, chances are you'll use it during the day. It's not going to be there forever."
Tulua has one of the highest rates of AIDS in Colombia, he said. The proposal will be debated by other town leaders and could go into effect by March, he said.
Roman Catholic priests in the Cauca Valley town, 150 miles southwest of Bogota, were fuming over the plan.
The Rev. Jesus Velasquez said it would only encourage sexual relations and ridiculed it as absurd. The local newspaper El Tiempo on Wednesday quoted him as saying, "I would have to have a condom even though I'm clergy."
Another town priest, Roberto Sarmiento, said he that improved sex education would be a better solution.
"Nobody can force someone to carry a condom in their pocket," he said. "They should instead carry the responsibility of what sexual relations mean."
Ramiro Cano, a 19-year-old laborer in Tulua, said Wednesday that the proposal was the talk of the town, and said most young people he has talked to support it.
"I try to always carry a condom on me, especially if I go to a discotheque, in case I can pick up someone," Cano said.
The proposal is perhaps the most radical in a series of pro-condom efforts across a country where 190,000 people live with AIDS, a figure only surpassed in Latin America by Brazil, according to the World Health Organization.
The capital city of Bogota handed out more than two million free condoms last year as part of a campaign titled "Use it instinctively _ make yourself sexy."
In the city of Tunja, where 17 percent of all pregnancies last year were from women under 18 years of age, condom dispensers will be installed in bars and movie theaters starting in February.
$180.00 fine?!
Ping, FWIW.
Next Step ... You have to wear one at all times ...
Given that the population of this town is probably pretty heavy with low-life scum, I think this might do more good than harm -- by controlling their reproduction. However, in terms of moral/political theory, it's of course unjustifiable.
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Hey, the law just says you have to carry one, it says nothing about actually using it.
Hold on a minute, Jose Jr. You've brushed your teeth and combed your hair? You have your homework? Let me check that pocket for your condom.
And underwear must be changed daily and everyone must wear it on the outside...so we can check.
"Sexual relations are going on constantly," Pena told The Associated Press by telephone. "If you carry a condom, chances are you'll use it during the day. It's not going to be there forever."
I think I still have the one I bought when I was 12
in 1958 at a truck stop.
You know, "Ribbed" for HER pleasure.....
Those guys have it good!
Sex seems like an epidemic in that town.
Just maybe......William Pena earned himself a richly deserved excommunication
Now the church doesn't even want people carrying condums?
I'd suggest that you not try to use it after almost 50 years.
1958? heck if i were you id put that on ebay you might get big bucks for it.
I'm personally against condoms myself.I took the sex ed class in high school where you had to put a condom on a banana and I got really good at it. I could but a condom on a banana in about 10 second so every time i had sex from then on iI used what I learned in school to prevent unwanted pregnanys and diseases I took out a condom put it on a bana and set the condom covered banana on my dresser i now have 7 kids and 4 stds!!! condoms dont work at all they are just a waste of money and time :-)
So does this fall under "Conceal and carry?"
Doctor: Yes, you're pregnant.
Mrs. B: But we followed your instructions to the letter.
Doctor: You made sure to put a rubber on the organ?
Mrs B: Well......we didn't have an organ so we put
a galosh on the piano........Bada Boom!
How about mandating a cold shower every morning and a bisquit laced with salt peter.
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