I was sent a link to this article by a reader, there isn't a blog link so I won't hat tip as I don't know if they want their name on here. Its about the debate over condoms: And so it is with our country’s policy on contraception. It devalues the sex act. This ought to be an immensely private and intimate thing. It should be reserved for people wholly committed to each other a...

Condoms just got cheaper, thanks to brothers Shandip and Ketan Shah who are offering a new brand of cut-price condoms, packaged to make them attractive to young women. Apparently, in their pharmacy, over the last few years, there has been 'a big increase in the number of girls coming in looking for the morning-after pill'. And they are concerned about the high rate of teenage pregnancy and poor

The Government will this week order television chiefs to include more references to condoms and sexually transmitted diseases in their story lines.

So are to be the rules that allegedly exist about promoting condoms and abortions on television. Such advertisement – for so it is, of commercial products or services – will now be “permitted” before the “watershed”, which has not existed for donkey’s years. If you can find a programme of any kind which is not already an advertisement for condoms and abortion, then you are doing very...

Expect the usual outrage here: The Vatican has renewed its criticism of the use of condoms to prevent the spread of AIDS, saying they made the problem worse by promoting a false sense of security. But do note that they are actually on to something. Written by Matthew Hanley, a US public health expert who

The Government could this week order television chiefs to include more references to condoms and sexually transmitted diseases in their story lines.

The Lancet medical journal on Friday accused Pope Benedict XVI of distorting scientific evidence in his statement that condoms worsen the AIDS crisis. It said he should retract the comments.

A spokesman told The Sun: “The UK had the longest time. We found no major difference in those who used condoms. But men who drank alcohol before sex tended to last longer.” Also, perhaps I should invest in a couple of Union Jack t shirts for those trips down to

One in three secondary schools in England now has a sexual health clinic to give condoms, pregnancy tests and even morning-after pills to children as young as 11, according to a new study.

Well, he didn’t waste any time, did he? To the further delight of a crowing religious right, Archbishop of Westminster Vincent Nichols has now waded into the debate about condoms and HIV. Not only has he supported the Pope’s remarks on the subject recently, albeit not with quite the same panache as our new friend