People Continue Unsafe Practices

The answer is obvious: More condoms and education. Don't those two things cure all such problems?

MSNBC.com and Zogby International asked online readers to share some intimate details about their personal lives, and more than 56,000 adult men and women – one of the largest responses ever to a sex survey in the United States – revealed that many are playing a pretty risky game.

The survey, which was released Monday, found that while a majority of the survey participants consider themselves knowledgeable about AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, many are in denial when it comes to sex with someone new.

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The rest of the article discusses the reasons people eschew safety. One might say, "The heart has reasons the head doesn't understand." Or even better: "The head understands, but the flesh is weak." But both sayings border on the concept of sin (worse, on the idea that passion is bad). I'm obviously shooting from my Dark-Age hip. Just spend millions of more dollars on the problem. That'll avoid the need to teach a little basic moral common sense.