Small Spark Of Sanity
San Francisco jail installs condom dispensers
"The condom dispensers are the latest evolution in a safe-sex program that began in 1989, when health workers began distributing condoms to inmates as part of their counseling before they were released.
And although sex among inmates technically is illegal, the Sheriff's Department went ahead and installed the 16 machines anyway - one for each jailhouse pod - paid for by a pair of small grants from UCSF and a Southern California nonprofit.
"It may be controversial," Sheriff Michael Hennessey said, "but I think the larger health education message is important."
As for the chance that all those machines will actually promote jailhouse sex?
The sex already takes place, says Kate Monico Klein, who is directing the program for the city's Public Health Department. "If (providing condoms) saves one or two lives, it's worth it," she said."
Incredible. Now if all drugs were decriminalized and drug use was declared to be a health issue instead of a criminal one we'd be getting somewhere.
Don't you love the "promoting jailhouse sex" obligatory line of thought? This facetious madness has kept us in the dark ages. Teaching sex education turns kids into sweaty touch monkeys.
Handing out clean needles urges people to boot up. Anything but abstinence is the work of the devil.
"The condom dispensers are the latest evolution in a safe-sex program that began in 1989, when health workers began distributing condoms to inmates as part of their counseling before they were released.
And although sex among inmates technically is illegal, the Sheriff's Department went ahead and installed the 16 machines anyway - one for each jailhouse pod - paid for by a pair of small grants from UCSF and a Southern California nonprofit.
"It may be controversial," Sheriff Michael Hennessey said, "but I think the larger health education message is important."
As for the chance that all those machines will actually promote jailhouse sex?
The sex already takes place, says Kate Monico Klein, who is directing the program for the city's Public Health Department. "If (providing condoms) saves one or two lives, it's worth it," she said."
Incredible. Now if all drugs were decriminalized and drug use was declared to be a health issue instead of a criminal one we'd be getting somewhere.
Don't you love the "promoting jailhouse sex" obligatory line of thought? This facetious madness has kept us in the dark ages. Teaching sex education turns kids into sweaty touch monkeys.
Handing out clean needles urges people to boot up. Anything but abstinence is the work of the devil.
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