[OT] [I mean totally OT] Re: What can you "new"

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Yigal Chripun" <yigal100 at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:gqm0p8$1dtd$1 at digitalmars.com...
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> Condoms were first invented in ancient Egypt 3 Milena or so ago. they were 
> made out of lamb intestines and were very efficient. Of course, the modern 
> extra thin optionally flavored condoms need more advanced technology than 
> lamb intestines...
> Isn't it funny that this age old method of birth control known to work in 
> ancient times is considered today by the US school system as inefficient 
> and wrong. They teach instead abstinence as a better method...

That's a huge overgeneralization. Maybe some school systems do that, but I 
know for a fact there are ones that don't. The high school I went to taught 
about all of the major non-abstinence methods and the only ones they 
discouraged were were ones that really are known to be vastly less effective 
(like "pulling out" or the rhythm (time of month) method). They did point 
out that abstinence is *more effective* at preventing pregnancies than 
pills, condoms, etc., but that's a blatantly obvious fact anyway and they 
certainly didn't discourage the use of pills/condoms/etc or teach them to be 
wrong.