No — Best protection against HIV

THE EDITOR: What the columnist has surmised about Miki Grant and his group Advocates for Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights is very clinical (I am talking of Pastor Winston Cuffie). While this group may be a by-product of the ills of the experts who are now slamming its activities, one has to bear in mind the other extremity that stemmed from the “sex is evil” teaching. Before 1914 very little was mentioned about that private affair in the newspapers. After 1918 the flood gate of perverted sex education was manifested during the Roaring 20s when the flappers bared their legs.

Before this surge began the western civilisation was plagued by the double standards of the Victorian Era where loveless marriages caused husbands to visit bawdy places. One Pentecostal Minister had already admitted the error or teaching that sex is evil doctrine to the sheep yet he had to exercise caution while the loudspeakers blared in the community neighbourhood of Curepe nearly five years ago. The crux of the matter is that the enemy of our soul is not the creator of sex and since that being is sexless, his means of getting back at God Almighty is to pervert the purpose of sex!

The message behind the giving of condoms reminds me of a 1979 offering by Singing Diane, a calypsonian who felt that women got to “Giveaway.” Virginity is under attack. The younger the girls have sex the greater the risk of cervical cancer. The next finding will cause many who advocate the saying “let the horses run wild” as well as those who say “kill the horse” to take note. The need for sex education must be fulfilled in the home first before it reaches the classroom where the choice of sex education teachers is very risky. I must thank the Prime Minister for his change of position on the issue of condoms.

Although it was first used to prevent pregnancy, it is now a matter of protection against the virus that leads to Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). It is also noteworthy that the virus is small enough to pass through the condom, believe it or not! The strongest form of the condom is latex and that might be used as a defence but the best contraception as well as protection against the HIV is “NO!” Who vex lost!

JEFFREY  M  JOSEPH
Fyzabad