As an aside: don't forget the largest major anti-condom propagandists is not African at all (ie, the Catholic church).
That would be the curch that also goes on about abstinence before marriage and monogamy afterwards? Never understood why the church gets beaten up for that (not a fan of the stance on condom use but this implies people "religously" follow one of their rules while blatantly ignoring others).
Is that so implausible?
That's mostly how it works. People follow the rules they like and ignore the ones they don't.
A better idea would be to encourage people to use condoms. This does not circumvent human nature and has a much better chance of working.
Don't defend ill thought out policy with bad logic.
Of course, the worst countries are probably the ones with lots of unregulated prostitution, so in those cases it's probably the men to blame.
However, the reason that I said "men" is that most of the time women aren't the problem. There are three main scenarios where condoms are helpful to society:
1) As a form of birth control. In this case the woman may not have access to other forms, and she has to rely on the man wearing a condom. If the man doesn't like it she is often left without options (particularly in jurisdictions where - unfortunately - consent laws are different for women who are married). Even if a women doesn't like sex with a condom she usually prefers it to yet-another-baby.
2) As a protection against sexually transmitted disease. A subset of that is sexually promiscuous women who dislike condoms (and in that case you are 100% correct - a condom which feels good to women will help). However, the other case - women who are paid to have sex - is unfortunately more common, and in that case the woman often has few options if the man doesn't want to wear a condom.
3) Gay Sex. Obviously this is really a subset of (2) above, but I'm putting it separately because it's quite a large vector for sexually transmitted diseases, and increased condom use would cut it dramatically.
It is not 1988 anymore, and it's called AIDS not GRID anymore. What else? 4) Bi sex 5) Threesome sex 6) Lesbian with strapon sex?
If it's two bisexual men
> 5) Threesome sex
If it's three men.
> 6) Lesbian with strapon sex?
No, because that wouldn't involve any penises.
The parent was arguing that it's more common for men to be making decisions about condom usage than women. Why would lesbians use a condom?
It makes toy clean-up easier.
Lesbian with strapon sex? - not sure there is a huge incident of sexually transmitted disease associated with that?
MSM - men who have sex with men.
> It is 2013 after all.
And even today people are executed or imprisoned for life because they are gay.
Men sex, or just mex. And if you do it with a guy from Texas, it's called texmex.
But the sector they operate most flagrantly and disastrously is still Africa.