a very personal little story, about how hard it is to conduct safer sex education in the dead-tree medium. It illustrates, I think, why the web an essential resource for honest discussion of safer sex aimed specifically at teenagers.
I used to be a Senior Writer at
Sassy magazine, where I was responsible for
the magazine's health column. One day in 1994 I realized that I'd been
getting
a bunch of suspiciously similar-sounding letters from
teenagers urging me
to
write that condoms actually don't protect you from AIDS or
pregnancy...(continued)