So, you’ve probably already heard about the Pope’s recent trip to Africa where he expressed his awesome wisdom on the effectiveness of the lubricated super elastic XXXXXL condoms he found on the continent in the fight against AIDS. It looks like he’s loving them big time.
He’s completely supportive too.
And did I already mention the condoms there were XXXXXL? Did I? No, really did I? 
Bet he’s also gonna like this video a lot.
Dear boys reading this blog post right now, (especially those of you in Africa), stay safe.
Use condoms when you wanna get down with the boom boom.
Although, if you think about it, once oral sex enters the equation (and it usually does), then condoms ain’t really all that effective anymore, right?
Crap, the Pope might be right about those slimy things after all. Who knew?
What do YOU think?
WARNING: Only the boys in da house can answer. Girls, the sexist chauvinist Drima says you’re not welcome. Okay, kidding. He loves you all. So, what do you all think? 
UPDATE: Looks like the Vatican isn’t happy about reactions criticizing the Pope’s irresponsible remarks on condoms.
In a strongly worded statement, the Vatican defended the pope’s view that condoms aren’t the answer to Africa’s AIDS epidemic and could make it worse. On his way to Africa last month, he said the best strategy is the church’s effort to promote sexual responsibility through abstinence and monogamy.
Way to go Mr. Pope.
… The Roman Catholic Church opposes the use of condoms as part of its overall teaching against contraception. It advocates sexual abstinence and sexual faithfulness between husband and wife as the best ways to combat the spread of HIV.
I say discard the ludicrous teachings on condoms and contraception.
Enough of this destructive religious dogmatism please. As for sexual faithfulness between husband and wife, thumbs up. I’m also in favor of lifestyles that reduce the risk of infection and don’t involve random multiple sex partners.
Still though, take the teachings on sexual faithfulness and random partners, and combine them with encouraging condom use.
Anyway, it’s funny how a person who doesn’t even have sex is supposed to know so much about it, let alone preach about it.
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I wonder if they will ever advertise them in Sudan
That’s an amazing video, Drima - thanks for sharing it. There’s a good piece in this past week’s Sunday New York Times magazine about the influence of African religious leaders on the churches of the world. African catholic priests, the article argues, are much more likely to advocate condom use than their European counterparts, and the article speculates that as African catholicism thrives and the European church wilts, you might see a future pope pitching these condoms as well…
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/12/magazine/12churches-t.html?ref=todayspaper
Condoms are effective for oral sex. As long as it is the man that is on the receiving end.
I am quite pleased with the Holy See these past few decades, overall. This whole condom attitude is unfortunate
ummm, “lubricated super elastic XXXXXL condoms”, did you want to mean that they are classed so by Chineses ?
Rara Avis,
Ha, good question. The answer I believe is a big fat “NO” because in the minds of too many religious Sudanese folks, encouraging condom use implies encouraging and validating sex outside marriage.
EthanZ, how are you? It’s a great honor to see you commenting here dude. Glad you enjoyed the video and thanks for the link to that article. Good to see African priests preaching some sense.
Lynn,
LOL. Good point.
Abu,
Unfortunate is an understatement. I think irresponsible and maybe even outright disastrous is a better description. Lots of aid agencies involved in AIDS related work in Africa are rightfully outraged as they say this is the type of stuff that can undermine years of work to change peoples’ attitudes.
Marieeeeeee,
salut mon amie, tre bien?
watch the video dear… those *are* truly XXXXXL condoms, aren’t they? Got any of those in France? 
At the time his holiness uttered those words, I wrote a blog about the Pope and his ridiculous reasoning called, “The Pope’s father should have worn a condom.”
Glad you are keeping the issue alive,
Bobby
Bobby, lol, hilarious title for your post.
It’s an important issue, and I think that such statements quite frankly are disgusting and deeply harmful, because too many people end up buying into this stuff.
Ah…his mama should have used condoms.
BTW…never could use them…they all fit way too tight…ended up cutting off the blood to my brain and I suddenly found myself doing yoga.
BTW…
Sexual abstinence…besides married people…who the hell practices that anyhow?
Hey…what do you feed your daughter if you want to keep her a virgin?
Wedding cake.
Drima -
Hmmm. Do you know [a href="http://happyarabnews.blogspot.com"]Nobody[/a href]? He’s pointed at an interesting theory (I can’t find the specific posts/comments) - that the effects of global warming, specifically [a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jS8_7ic0cBLEtSZ1b2P62xt9zqwA"]prolonged droughts in Africa[/a href], will [a href="http://www.scidev.net/en/news/decades-of-drought-predicted-for-southern-africa.html"]produce millions of African[/a href] [a href="http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/JBRN-7R4G47?OpenDocument&rc=1&emid=acos-635nze"]“environmental refugees”[/a href]. Such an event has the potential to be highly destabilizing for Europe (via Spain) and Middle East (via Israel), not to mention for various African states. Especially combined with the high youthful populations of many African countries, some of which are already producing just enough to sustain themselves.
Your comments?
uh Drima aren’t the Chineses producting the world condoms ?
see how the French are scoring :
http://blog.innerpendejo.net/2007/11/tamanos-promedios-del-pene-por-paises-del-mundo.html
other than that, I think Pope was talking at the moral level, according to the 10 divine commandments, which are his religious concern
I LOVE TRUST ADS!!! An they maybe xxxxxwhateverL but let me tell you there are some tiny little eeny weeny pricks in Africa. As well as the big ones.
the church has always been against condoms…. but you’d think in this day and age, things would change….
UNAIDS. 2004 Report on the global AIDS epidemic, page.72
Preferred sources of condoms among young men in Kampal, Uganda. KamyM, Kapiriri L, Kamy S, Biryabarema C, Kajubi P, Hearst N, McFarland W, International Conference on AIDS.
In 1995, sexually experienced teenage men ages 15-17 had a sexual activity rate of 33%. In 1995 the 18 and 19 year-old men who were sexually experienced had a sexual activity rate of 58%. Then the barriers to condom use were lowered. Perhaps co-incidentally, the rates of sexual activity among sexually experienced teenagers rose to 120% or 125% of the pre-intervention levels.
The only group that benefited from the lowered barriers was married women and men, who used condoms more, but that may have been because the proportion of married men with MULTIPLE PARTNERS increased among some age groups.
The pope was not only telling the truth, he was right.
I don’t know what the huge outcry is about, this has always been the Catholic Church’s stance for decades…
and if you think about it logically, the root of the problem with AIDS is it’s transmitted via sexual conduct, and in order to prevent it, promote abstinence.. it seems too simple to be true though, doesn’t it?
I guess condoms is a (semi)effective solution when complete abstinence isn’t a viable option; but I don’t think the Pope was entirely wrong. Of course that’s what the Church is going to promote, ‘cos that’s their solution in keeping in line with religious doctrine.. They don’t even approve of contraception on a normal occasion, makes you think they’re going to approve of handing out condoms to prevent an epidemic?
The root of the problem is sexual promiscuity and monogamy. Why not go straight to the cause rather than treat the symptoms?
“The root of the problem is sexual promiscuity and monogamy.”
No. The root of the problem is the HIV virus, which is exceptionally devious and adaptable. If it was like the mumps, polio or measles viruses, it would be easy to develop a vaccine against it.
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