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The use of condoms “save and healthy”
TOPIC;                      The use of condoms “save and healthy” Our entire nation, worldwide is of the opinion that using condoms is the unique way to have sex and by using it, to prevent sexual related diseases. Since the introduction of the killer disease, Aids, different governments started with Aids education programs and campaigns of how to use a condom or have sex with a condom and stay healthy. But, contrary to this awareness, people are in fact promoting sex among the younger generation. “A lot of young people are sexually active. It is their rights to have preventive measures there for them, in order to empower them to lead a healthy life. If health workers refuse to give the youth friendly health services, such as friendly access to condoms and information, they are contributing to the dearth of our future leaders.’ (Paul Peters. Youth coordinator, UNICEF. UN Bulletin on HIV/Aids. December 1998) With our rapid generation, the youth are the most vulnerable and issues like addressing them on how to have sex with a condom, lead to them wanting to experience it. With the current alcohol abuse rate among the youth, they turn to the demonstrations done during the presentation and start looking for an easy target to do as demonstrated. They think that after having sex with a condom, nothing follows and one can go on to the next because the condom is protecting him /her. It is common course that, with a condom in the purse/wallet, people do not consider partners whom they left at home or else were and thus do not thing of with whom they are going to have sex. They go out to recreation venues to get a date and end up in one night stand with people they don’t know. This has become the club style where the questions is always posed; “Do you have a condom?” which normally result in sex at parking lots or in unpleasant environments. It sometimes results in having sex without a condom and the rest follow. “My friends and I, we drink because we are bored. There is nothing else to do on weekends. Once we start to get drunk, then we looks for girls........ And who can remember condoms when he is drunk?”(Wesley Swartz. Graduate of my future my choice life skill programme. UN Special Bulletin on HIV/Aids. December 1998.) Condoms are not hundred percent secured as it do expire. An uneducated or careless or even a drunk person won’t look at the date and will start using that expired condom. This can lead to infections caused by the lubricant oil or it can burst and cause unwanted pregnancies. This can tear families apart, brings confusion in domestic relations and cause woman and children abuse and end a happy marriage. “We know about HIV and Aids. We know about sex. What we need to know is about relationship and how to make it work. (Sylvia Smith. UN Special Bulletin on HIV/Aids. December 1998.) People do argue and get involved in physical fights if a condom has been found on the partner and brings distrust among partners. There is an unquoted statement saying, “as long as the condom is there, we can enjoy”. This statement is the mother of a chain of sexual partners instead of one partner. “Right now, until changes can be made, teachers must use 10minutes of the periods to enlighten learners about sexual behaviours........ “Principal J. Molebugi. Gunichas jr. Secondary School Gobabis. UN Bulletin on HIV/Aids. Special edition 1998.) it is of good use to let the children know about sex and its consequences at an early age. The meaning is of good use but this is also somehow telling them to have sex as long as they use a condom. This is seconded on the availability of condoms at schools, shops hospitals. They are at the exit points and no one cares who takes. This also contributes to government spending billions to purchase condoms and make it available to the nation for free. Instead of people making use of this, they storm to the shops to buy the luxury once with different flavours and special designs. In so doing, the government distributed condoms lay astray in street indicating a waist of government resources. This billions could have been of good use if it was used to purchase medication or food for the hungry orphans. Condoms do contribute to the ever growing rate of single mothers due to unplanned pregnancy and many men living their families. The productive group of the society choose to be single and only involve in sexual activities when need arises, with a condom and never cares with whom. Condoms also maximise office flanks, so called quickie and sex outside wedlock. So, life goes on. There is always another story to the real issue. My opinion to all this contradictions for the use of condoms, is to choose between ages for sexual education and to put pressure on refraining from having any kind of sexual activity before marriage. Promoting the goodness of a married life and how sweat sex is when u are a married couple doing it in the privacy of your dwelling. Also discourage love affairs which comes up when having drugs or alcohol in your bloodstream. The nation’s health can only be maintained by individual respect for oneself and towards the next individual but not by distributing condoms. I am of the opinion that condoms be sold at specific outlets to avoid advertisement as if sex do not have bountries. Sex must be appreciated and not handled like milk or any other commodities. As for the young ladies, this fashion of showing some flesh which is also contributing to the activeness of the youth needs to have some limits too. We can preach to people about the dangers of sexual transmitted diseases including HIV and Aids in a way that can scare people from having sex instead of telling them that one can have sex with a condom to avoid getting infected. Then only can we have save sex and a healthier nation all over the continent. The above is my personal opinion from my personal observations of individuals and their sexual behaviour in our Namibian society backed by social events and influenced by daily reports in the media of different relationship murders and abuses of woman and children in Namibia. It is also influenced by aids adverts and different awareness campaigns from different ministries and companies. (E.g. “talk don’t shoot.” Namibian Police), the condom adverts everywhere and the campaigns from the aids organisations such as; Nawatrust, UNICEF, ministry of health, exetra.