How true does this ring with the experiences of people participating on this blog? Any insight into your parents’, grandparents’, aunts’, uncles’s marriages? Is this statement really true?

I often hear how Indian woman are the “heads” of their households in India. If this is the case, such an attitude would be very incongruant.

I think one way of promoting condoms is highlighting it as a good health tool even for married, healthy, monogamous couples. It helps protect both parties from UTIs and fungal infections that are STDs but also not just STDs–i.e. a faithful person get get a UTI non-sexually and then pass it on to their partner. I read an article once in which a porn producer said that as a matter of principle, he never allowed a male member on screen without a very prominent and visible condom—none of this translucent, “barely-there” business. If condoms were marketed as a necessary and fashionable accesory for married couples, it would help ease the stigma for everyone else.

Yes, you are correct about their infamy. However, I didnt realize that they are still as infamous even today. About the usage of condoms, I am aware of youngsters who are bullied by their elders (who think in lines of Catholics) into not using any protection. I once overheard a mom telling her daughter not to use protection, because it might affect the fertility of her eggs. Needless to say (and to much delight of elders), this chica was pregnant within 3 months.

Tells me that, emotional blackmail and elderly bullying tactics are much more potent than education after all.

We launched a hostile takeover of the NEJM 2 quarters ago, but we’re trying to keep it on the down lo.