Rubber Lovers

All those nay-saying anti-sex education Santorumites, it turns out, were wrong about giving condoms to teenagers.

"Condom availability did exactly what we would have hoped it would do. It didn't get kids to have sex but it did get them to use condoms if they were already having sex," says study co-author Carol Goodenow, a student health official with the Massachusetts Department of Education. The researchers report their findings in the June issue of the American Journal of Public Health.

Teenagers are going to want to have sex, no matter what you tell them or what they are going to say to you. They just are. They're genetically designed to. So, why not give them something to protect themselves with if they ever do make that choice, during a hot an heavy moment when they have no control over themselves?