The original Papa stopper...

People have sex because it feels good…

A lot of people will come up with a lot of excuses for having sex. Some will say they bang away at each other because they are in love, or they’re allowed to because they are married or in a relationship, others will claim they have sex to fulfil their partner’s needs.

Well let me tell you hear and now, people screw each other because if feels damn good! Attach what ever you want to it, that’s it! Now that I have defined sex, let us move on to reproduction and disease, or better yet, how to have sex without the fear of pregnancy or STD’s.

Condoms! Yes, the little rubber sack that robs many of us from truly experiencing the joys of coitus, but a necessity in today’s age of various deadly diseases.

If you live in Canada, the United Kingdom or Australia, you can go right up to the counter at your favourite chemist, boldly and loudly proclaim to your apothecary your need for a packet of multicoloured, ribbed, glow in the dark, ultra-thin, natural feeling, extra large condoms (if the shoe fits?), if you so choose.

Nothing wrong with that! What is wrong is these little pleasure tubes are taxed. If various governments around the world really do want to cut down on the number of abortions, unwanted and teenage pregnancies and control the spread of sexually transmitted diseases, why not take of the (tax) GST (VAT) off these making these little goodies cheaper, meaning more people will use them.

Last week ministers in England were embarrassed when figures showed that attempts to reduce teenage pregnancies by half by 2010 were well behind target. A teenage pregnancy unit had been established and £150 million spent on the campaign. At present rates, only a 17 per cent reduction in teenage pregnancies in the UK would be achieved by 2010.

Currently in the UK a 17.5 per cent VAT applies to the morning after pill and condoms. Remove that tax and you substantially lower the price of condoms and the morning after pill. In Australia the 10 per cent GST applies to condoms.

I hate condoms but if I have sex with beautiful strange women (which I hope to do a lot of) I will wear my little rubber sheath, like it or not.