Right or wrong message? (3)

I was most surprised to read about Vodafone distributing condoms to university students at the start of the academic year. I was even more pleased to note that many Vodafone users had contacted the company to register their disapproval and say that they were moving to another provider. What started off as a marketing exercise ended up with Vodafone shooting themselves in the foot. One thinks that they could not have researched the way things would go and they underestimated those brave people who objected so strongly to their ploy.

I recently went on www.dangersofcontraception.com and read some interesting facts about the use of condoms and the psychological effect they have on an otherwise good marriage. I learnt that when a couple have sex without using contraception they enjoy it more and it draws them closer to each other as it is rather special. They are restricted to the safe part of the menstrual cycle, it is true, but that act of sex is well worth waiting for. Using contraception on the other hand means that the couple can have sex every day if they wish and there is the tendency for the act to become commonplace. The woman begins to feel rather used and the husband gets bored of having sex with his wife and starts to look elsewhere for a bit more excitement.

I thought of the last 30 years that have gone by and of how marriage breakdown has increased by leaps and bounds and I started thinking that contraception, which was meant to help couples, had rather done the opposite to the detriment of so many children who became victims of their parents' separation or divorce.

Sex is one of the most intimate acts between a man and woman and nothing is nicer than the sexual act between a loving couple. It unites, enhances and helps a couple grow closer to each other and thus fosters a spiritual union between them.

Vodafone could not have thought deeply about their marketing tactics or rather they thought of themselves more than of the young people they were targeting.

If we want to foster good marriages we must give young people a good example of how to go about things the right way and not be modern for modernity's sake. Not everything that is called "progress" is progress. There is a time and a place for everything and this definitely was not the time and the place for handing out condoms.