Condom Nation: Blind Faith, Bad Science, released in early 1997 (160 pp), uncovers the absurd contradictions and misinformation contained in many "AIDS Prevention" programs being used in U.S. schools and asks: "is sex ed based on sound science, or on blind assumptions?"

"Condom Nation underscores the fundamental need for a counterpoint to the amorality that currently dominates [sex education]." John Silber, President Boston University "When I was a mom dealing with sex ed issues in the schools, I would have loved to have had Condom Nation... I love it when people do their research. That's what this book does!" Janet Parshall, Talkshow Host "Richard Panzer, an advocate for AIDS prevention who teaches about sex in terms of reserve and respect, has written a fascinating book with the clever title of Condom Nation in which he catalogs the failures of sex education in the schools." Suzanne Fields, Syndicated Columnist "Examine(s) the failure of the present 'politically correct attitudes' toward sexual activity,.. uses concepts from evolutionary psychology to buttress (its) moral stand..clear, easy to understand." Choice, American Library Assocn "Richard Panzer makes perfect sense." David Kirby, Troy Citizen "If you're a parent, you need to get this book!" G. Gordon Liddy, Radio Talkshow Host Many college students aren't sure what abstinence is. More than a third think it refers to oral-genital contact. One in ten think it refers to anal intercourse. In Lakewood, California, a group of middle class teenage boys compete to see how many girls they can "score with." The "champion" claims 66 scores. One of the boys complains, "they teach us condoms this and condoms that, but they don't teach us any rules!" In towns across the U.S.A., AIDS activists, some of whom are local students impatient with the town school board, hand out condoms to 12 and 13 year-olds in front of junior high schools. More than 400 high schools in the U.S. hand out condoms inside the school premises in the desperate hope of preventing the spread of AIDS. Few ask if there is any documented proof that this approach works. Meanwhile, a leading AIDS activist who preached and practiced "safer sex" dies, in his 40s. A National Institute of Health study of condom effectiveness in preventing transmission of the AIDS virus is canceled because the administrators state "it would be immoral to put people at risk." 6,000 defective condoms are never recalled because "it would undermine people's confidence in condoms." Parents or community groups who question the content of "AIDS prevention programs are vilified by government-funded advocates of "comprehensive" safer-sex education who compile black lists of programs that give greater emphasis to abstinence. A lawsuit initiated by a lawyer for Planned Parenthood intimidates a school board into dropping an abstinence-centered program even though it reduced the rate of teen pregnancies by 35% over a three year period. A federal judge decides that parents have no right to be informed about a mandatory school assembly in which the speaker conducts a "group sexual experience" in which she places a condom over the head of a student and asks him to "blow it up," shows students how to masturbate, and praises bisexual sex because "you get less rejection that way." In the CONDOM NATION, guilt about "doing it" has been replaced by guilt about "not using it" (condoms). Words such as "monogamy" and "marriage" are seldom even men-tioned in health classes, banned by a wall of political correctness, false assumptions about the effectiveness of condoms, and indifference to the growing tragedy of out-of-wedlock births. Sex ed programs for kindergarten teach the 5 year-old set about sexual intercourse and homosexuality. Versions of abstinence taught by government-funded organizations include "mutual masturbation" and "undressing each other" even though no studies have proven that this new brand of "abstinent" foreplay reduces sexual intercourse. Welcome! You have arrived in the CONDOM NATION, a world of latex, in which fact has been replaced by unquestioned assumptions. A world in which studies are said to support the exact opposite of what they actually conclude. A world in which much of the public is lulled into complacency by terms like "protected sex," assisted by a docile, cooperative mainstream media that often follows a "don't ask, don't tell" policy when it comes to government proclamations of "fact." A world in which parents and groups who question government-sponsored sex ed programs are dismissed as extremists, forever banished outside the great latex wall that surrounds government-approved arbiters of reality.

Topics discussed in Condom Nation: Government AIDS "Prevention" Seminars Tragic Denial in the US Response to AIDS Uncle Sam as Dr. Ruth New Definitions of Abstinence You Won't Believe Teach Kids Sexual Pleasure? Exploring Sexuality in Elementary School Parents as "the Opposition"? Government-sponsored Blacklists The Failure of "Comprehensive" Condom Ed Does "Comprehensive" Sex Ed Increase Teen Sex? Condom Distribution: Wasted Time, Wasted Resources How Safe is "Safer Sex"? Unheard Cries for Meaning in the Condom Nation Fear and Loathing of Monogamy/Marriage The New Sexual Darwinism The Success of Abstinence-Centered Sex Ed The Positive Power of Parents The author of Condomnation is Richard Panzer, a writer and developer of family life education programs used in 70 countries and throughout the United States. He is a graduate of Yale University and a popular speaker in high schools and colleges throughout the U.S. He is married and the father of 4 children. Read more about Richard