Guest Post: Condoms

COMMENTARY : SEX ROULETTE POSTED: MAY 23, 2007 [Abstinence Clearinghouse E-Mail Update 5/23/07]--Kelly Boggs, According to a report carried on the website of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, condoms are only 85 to 87 percent effective against HIV transmission. However, a revised estimate carried in a bulletin of the World Health Organization sets the estimate of effectiveness at 80 percent.For some, 80-plus percent effectiveness sounds good. Yet would you eat a restaurant that served food free from E. Coli bacteria only 87 percent of the time? Would you fly in an airline that advertised that 87 percent of its flights landed safely?