A lot of sex workers are afraid to carry condoms because they could face arrest, but many do so anyway because they don't want to put themselves at risk of contracting HIV.
Until now, the Vatican had prohibited the use of any form of contraception -- other than abstinence -- even as a guard against sexually transmitted disease.
It is inexcusable that television networks, one of the best public sites for widespread education about safer sex, is acting coy at the cost of young women's fullest lives.
Vanessa Valenti: CBS and Fox are refusing to air an ad for Trojans because they feel it's too frank about sex. Strange, since they never show such restraint during the Super Bowl.
