"Condoms associated with 'lack of trust'"

[bloom]

Social and cultural factors, not just unavailability or ignorance, influence why young people do not use condoms, UK researchers said.

Some sexually active under 25s associate condoms with a lack of trust, while others believe carrying them could imply sexual experience, which might be a plus for men but not necessarily for women.

In a review of more than 250 studies of young people's sexual behaviour, researchers at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine discovered striking similarities in what affects young sexual behaviour in different countries.

"This study summarises key qualitative findings that help in understanding young people's sexual behaviour and why they might have unsafe sex," said Dr Cicely Marston and Eleanor King in a study in the medical journal, The Lancet.

They found that, compared to men, women's sexual freedom was universally restricted. Penalties for transgression varied from verbal criticism to honour killings, in which a woman who is thought to have dishonoured her family is killed....

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3849375a7144,00.html

[Jeffery]

1. not necessarily...

Not necessarily more than men. In some states and countries' laws, men get a harsher sentence than women for doing the same confounded thing. Texas and Singapore are two well-known examples.

[noamnety]

2. I will never understand the "trust" angle

I don't see the connection between love/trust and having bacteria or a virus you might not even know about.

It's like washing my hands before I make dinner, it's just a health thing. It's not something I'm doing because my partner can't "trust" me.