Some people in the Department of Health (DOH) want to shower condoms on senior high school youths because there are reports that a good number of young folk now have sexually transmitted HIV which leads to AIDS.
Catholic church leaders are outraged, their logic telling them that condoms would, more than anything else, only titillate promiscuity. Innocent high schoolers who know not much about libido would begin to ask what condoms are for and there is no assurance that only trained parents or teachers would be relied upon for answers.
Queries on condoms will not be short of enlighteners from their age group. And the explanations are likely to regurgitate with wet and wild details from same-age peers, their wisdom sourced not from Wikipedia, but from readily available porno on internent or x-rated DVD casettes readily bought from street vendors also selling inexpensive DVD players.
Granting that young people have no ready access to internet or x-rated DVD’s, who can escape television? Many shows on prime time are not in the category of modern-day porno already in proportions of the grotesque, but for a virginal young man, scantilly dressed girls gyrating in total abandon in Willy Revillame’s Wowowin program, or a hot kissing scene in bed in one of TV’s “teleseryes” would be enough to trigger sexual excess.
But wise folk in government are convinced that amid all these liberality, if not illegality, the solution is raining condoms on senior high school students. Somewhere in this, logic snaps, twists, and explodes.
The government might just have its way through the condom rumpus, the way government wins, hook or crook. Meantime, sexual firebrands will ride on smooth waters to stir up tornadoes in calm libidos.