D.C. to be first U.S. city to give away free female condoms to fight HIV/AIDS

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'The District will become the first city in the United States to distribute female condoms free, part of a project that will make 500,000 of them available in beauty salons, convenience stores and high schools in parts of the city with high HIV rates.

City officials said the distribution could begin within the next three weeks in parts of wards 1, 2, 3, 6 and 7, where a study showed that large numbers of African American heterosexuals engage in risky sexual behavior that could easily lead to infection.

The move is an official acknowledgment of the futility of relying solely on the use of male condoms, which have been distributed citywide for nearly a decade, to stem the District's epidemic of HIV and AIDS. Officials said they are turning to female condoms to give women more power to protect themselves from HIV and sexually transmitted diseases when their partners refuse to use protection.'

Good luck with that. 'Tis been my experience that women are as much put off by having latex between them and their partners as men. But everyone needs to learn the hard way. Perhaps the reason for the pending lack of success will now become that the boys 'forced themselves' onto the girls when the girls insisted they accept use of the female condom. Remember, it's always the boys' fault for anything. Always.