Sexual Integrity Safeguards Human Health

By Dr Stuart Reece

Human health has been broadly defined by the WHO as long ago as 1948 as “a state of
complete physical, mental, social, and spiritual health of individuals and societies and not
merely the absence of sickness or infirmity1.” It is appropriate then to explore each of
these realms in turn.

It was first shown by Sorokin in 19562 that sexual decadence was directly related
historically to the demise of most great civilizations for when they became morally lax
they became structurally weak and vulnerable to external attack and demise. Culturally
the strength of a society was related to the strength of its families. It is accepted that by
far the major cause of suicide is the breakdown of intimate relationships. Suicide of
course is usually preceded by depression and relationship breakdown is one of the major
causes of this. People with complex relationships including many sexual partners have
more concerns in relation to childcare an custody issues. Sexual jealousy is a recurrent
and potentially very explosive and dangerous issue. So too is the traumatic and
frequently shame engendering business of having to trace partners when one has
contracted a venereal infection from a usually unknown source at a generally unknown
time. And it is no secret that sexual non-conformists such prostitutes have been shown to
have higher than normal rates of drug addiction, mental illness, suicide, and criminal
involvement than non-prostitutes3; that homosexuals have higher rates of anxiety,
depression, drug taking4 and violent death than non-homosexuals5,6,7,8 and that transgender
patients have the highest rates of all of prostitution, drug abuse, suicidal ideation and
attempts, STI’s, health problems, psychological problems, sex industry employment, rape
and criminal involvement9,10,11. Even the murder rate amongst transgender persons has
been found to be elevated over four hundred times (from 2 to 943 per hundred
thousand)12. In these cases their appears a direct relationship by group between the
degree of sexual deviancy and the extent to which “life does not work” in emotional,
social and psychological senses. Sexuality and moral behaviour is one of the major
concerns of religion: in general the strictest spiritual codes have the strongest sexual
ethics and prohibitions which in turn tend to be associated with the most robust and
resilient and productive societies.

It is a well known fact that the libertarian arguments of the sexual revolution in relation to
physical health rests on three main tenets: condoms, contraception, and testing.

There are three levels to the arguments in relation to condoms and human health. The
first relates to structural abnormalities and imperfections in the latex materials; the
second relates to the efficacy of condoms against sexual disorders; and the third relates to
the person efficacy in population health sense as to the reliability of condom use given
maximum levels of safe sex educational exposure. Photographs taken through
microscopes have been published of holes and large pores in latex rubber13, gaps between
ribbons of latex in a so-called latex sheet14, and tunnels and crevices opening up deep
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inside the latex structure15,16 amongst other defects. In addition a variety of physical
studies have been performed on condom latex to demonstrate its unacceptably high
failure rates of 30-40%17,18 both at room temperature and particularly after storage in
typical conditions involving high temperatures and humidities,19 to pollution including
smog20 or simply with aging21. Hence there is no question that condoms have identified
structural weakness and faults associated with high rates of failure on physical leak
testing which make their use in the important applications of contraception and disease
prevention inherently seriously problematic.

The diseases which are usually regarded as being sexually transmitted infections are in
order of their frequency: genital warts (over 70 subtypes of human papilloma virus
“HPV”), herpes simplex (Types I and II “HSV”), non-specific urethritis (NSU),
chlamydia, candida, Hepatitis B and C, bacterial vaginosis, candida, public scabies,
public lice, gonorrhoea, syphilis, trichomonas, granuloma inguinale, lymphogranuloma
inguinale, chancroid, some forms of arthritis due to gonococcus and chlamydia and HIV /
AIDS (19 illnesses). Other diseases are not usually considered as STI’s but which may
be transmitted by this mechanism particularly where anal sex is involved include
glandular fever (Epstein-Barr virus) cytomegalovirus (CMV), molluscum contagiousum,
prostatitis, seminal vesiculitis, typhoid, paratyphoid, amoebiasis, giardiasis, salmonellosis
and shigellosis and Hepatitis A, tuberculosis and mycobacterium intracellulare, Kaposi’s
sarcoma virus - Human Herpes Virus 8, vancomycin resistant enterococcus (VRE) and
vancomycin resistant staphylococcus (VRS) (17 illnesses). This is a total of 36 sexually
transmissible infections. It should be pointed out that whilst the first list is found in many
textbooks of venereology, the second list is referred to only by various social
commentators but would nonetheless be agreed upon as potentially sexually spread by
medical authorities. These illnesses have many important complications including
sterility, pain from sex, pelvic inflammatory disease, ectopic pregnancy, cancer of the
cervix, vagina, vulva, anus and anal canal, and oropharynx from the E6 and E7 proteins
of HPV and death (from ectopic pregnancy, PID, cancer, depression and suicide).

The first four diseases listed account for over 80% of the disorders seen in Australian22,23
and New Zealand24 clinics. The most important point to note is that CONDOMS HAVE
NOT BEEN TESTED AGAINST MOST OF THESE ILLNESSES and in most of those
cases where they have been tested no protective results have been found. In one illness
(NSU) no causative organism has been isolated so that testing is not possible. It is also
important to note that most of these illnesses are spread NOT by body fluids, but by
skin contact. Obviously there is extensive skin contact even when condoms are used,
which is why physicians do not pretend that condoms work against the commonest STI’s.
As a direct result of this poor efficacy rate, it is said that 70% of all sexually active
persons carry the warts virus, and some studies show that 65% of Sydney STD clinic
clients carry HSV25. This is the reason for the present excitement over the HPV vaccine.
Condoms are believed to be effective against gonococcal disease. This means that
careful study of the gonococcal transmission rates will document both the collapse of the
safe sex campaign, and predict the spread of HIV, as has happened precisely in this
country (see figures quoted below). Meta-analysis of 11 studies of the effectiveness of
condoms against HIV suggested that they were 69% protective; however of the studies
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cited, only one of them convincingly did not include a relative risk of unity definitively
suggesting useful protection26. When the relevant samples sizes in these and other studies
were pooled the calculated protection was 84%. One might well argue that such a level
of protection is inadequate against so lethal a disease which in addition to 30 million
infected persons globally, will soon have produced 40 million orphans in Africa (by
2010) alone (by WHO data).

Because condoms are accepted as being effective against gonococcal disease the rising
rates of gonococcal infection in Australia which have more than doubled 1991-2004 from
14.6 to 35.6 /100,00027 demonstrate that saturation level condom programming of
populations does not work and suggests that by weakening the natural constraints of
modesty against sexual activity programs which promote condom use may actually be
counterproductive when applied at the population level. Indeed most STI’s are accepted
as being more frequent in Australia in recent decades. This applies to the ten fold
increase in warts (1973-1993)28, the five fold increase in herpes (1973-1993)28,
chlamydia (where rates have tripled nationally 1991-2004 from 54.6 to 180.1 /
100,00029,30), eight fold increase in cervical pre-cancerous lesions 1970-198831, doubling
of pelvic inflammatory disease (1978-1983)32 (1990-1995)33 and tripling of new cases of
HIV from 100 to 283 cases in 1991-200334. Hence in the public health sense when the
objective data is viewed condoms have failed by all measures with most parameters
including HIV infection rising about 2-3 or more times.

Prions are proteins which have been shown in recent years to be infectious agents capable
of spreading serious diseases like mad cow disease (Bovine encephalopathy) and
dementia. They have been found in various species including yeast, cows and humans.
The proteins can be either normal or abnormal but are believed to assemble themselves
into aggregations which eventually form plaques as they crystallize and loose water.
Such proteins fold abnormally in three dimensions. These plaques have been found in
amyloid deposits seen in humans which occur in the various diseases including
Alzheimer’s Dementia. Whilst there are many theories about the responsible processes
involved in neurodegenerative disorders like Dementia, and Parkinson’s disease, an
infectious cause with a protein-like agent is also a possibility. The reason this is
important is that the discussion of the efficacy of condoms against various diseases
usually relates to what is known from epidemiological surveys and studies of condom
use, and from the physical properties of those infectious agents with latex. Just as no one
has suggested that condoms will prevent skin to skin contact (in relation to warts, herpes,
candida, lice, salmonella or VRE), so no one would dream of suggesting that condoms
have an effect to prevent protein transmission - which may relate to chronic disorders
such as dementia.

Zoonoses are human diseases which come from animals, as in fact many of the major
pathogens of the 20th century have done. Such disorders include HIV from the African
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green monkey, Asian bird flu, Ebola virus, Marburg Virus, West Nile Virus, Kuru and
Mad Cow Disease. The skin of the genitalia becomes engorged, swollen and very thin
and absorbent like blotting paper during intercourse. The point is that we do not even
know what the microbial challenges of the 21st century are as yet – some are likely to be
not only non-bacterial, but also non-viral and include agents such as prions. In such a
“microbiological jungle” one would be foolhardy in the extreme to trust the future of
one’s self and one’s family to unknown pathogens and an uncertain rate of protection
against infections where protection is almost assuredly impossible and untestable.

Testing is one of the backbones of the sexual revolution. We are forever hearing calls
that young people should be tested prior to entering into a sexual relationship; that they
should get their partners tested, that “Oh I went to the doctor and got a test and I am all
clear,” that prostitutes are carefully tested in legal brothels and have been shown to be
disease free, and that HIV tests will prevent the spread of a disease which is frequently
spread by sex addicts with substantial numbers of partners of varying sexual preferences.
The critical question of course is “Just how good is the testing?” The short-comings of
the window periods of 3-6 months for viral diseases is well known. What is less well
known but nonetheless very important indeed is that most of the commonest and most
serious diseases do not show up on routine testing. A moment’s reflection will
demonstrate how this could be. The commonest disease is genital warts and sensitive
DNA based tests have shown that it is carried by 70% of the adult population either as
discrete pro-viral particles within cells, or more often encoded into the cell’s own nuclear
DNA in tissues deep inside the body where tests cannot reach. These research based tests
are not available in any lab in this country to my knowledge and indeed are only set up
for specific scientific projects on selected research subjects. Whilst the Pap smear in
females can detect a small number of the total population burden of HPV disease there is
in fact no reliable and readily available test for the other >95% of HPV disease. And one
notes that this is the organism responsible for several major cancers in both sexes. Most
patients leave the doctors office with “the all clear” rather than a diagnosis of HPV,
which shows that we are routinely missing 97-99% of HPV – precancerous disease due to
the severe limitations of our diagnostic capabilities. Similar comments apply to the
herpes virus. Doctors do not routinely test for this agent. One lab in Sydney at the
Westmead hospital does a sensitive serology test (the Western blot) although erroneous
results can occur. However this test is absent from the screens most commonly ordered
in Australian medicine.

Contraception In the modern era with over a million Australian women on hormonal
contraceptives, one can only wonder if the safety profile of these agents has been either
carefully concealed or carefully camouflaged from an unsuspecting public. Although
“the pill” has long been known to have a range of common side effects, nausea, weight
gain, fluid retention, mood change, clots, liver enzyme changes, liver enlargement, liver
nodules, liver cancers, diabetes, hypertension, strokes and heart attacks the severity and
frequency of some of its most serious ones seem underappreciated. In 1996-97 the
Imperial cancer research fund reviewed 59 published studies and found not only that
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hormone replacement therapy for the mature menopausal women elevated the incidence
of breast cancer35, but so too did oral contraceptives for younger women36. Of course this
is not at all unsuspected because both are preparations of female hormones, and the breast
and reproductive tract are both hormone sensitive tissues. Similar results have been
found with elevation of the cervical cancer rates37,38,39,40. This is particularly pertinent
because women on the pill have more partners because they are on the pill41,42,43.
Furthermore studies of a newly identified clotting disorder, Factor V Leiden deficiency
have noted that whilst women heterozygous for this gene have a 2-3 fold elevation in the
risk of venous clots, homozygous women have a risk elevated several hundred fold. Of
course clots which break off from the legs and travel to the lungs are known to kill
people, and yet there is no attempt made to screen females for this disorder. The pill also
makes it easier to get STI’s both by increasing the amount of the delicate lining tissue
which lines the cervical canal to the outside world in the top of the vagina (“eversion of
the cervix”) and by mildly immunosuppressing women as in pregnancy. It also has a
direct biological effect increasing the HPV infectious process and may aid the malignant
transformation process to cancer44. These effects are also likely to be shared by all other
forms of hormonal contraception including the injection (“Depoprovera”) and the implant
(“Implanon”) This issue is even included in the prescribing information legally required
by the pharmaceutical company Upjohn for Depoprovera!

Abortion Abortion is frequently included in the sexual menu of the sexual revolution.”
The mantra seems to be that “you can always do it with contraception, and if there is a
slip-up you can have an abortion.” The side effects of abortion are well known, with
incomplete abortion, bleeding, infection, pain, and impaired fertility after multiple
procedures being well known. What is less well known is the number of women who
have serious regrets after the fact, when frequently boyfriends and husbands have left
them and their life and their heart is in tatters. Breast cancer is also associated with
abortion. It must be said that breast and cervical cancer are the two commonest cancers
which occur in females worldwide, and together they are responsible for the deaths of
over a million women annually. Dr. Joel Brind has analyzed the 14 published studies on
this area and found a consistent association with of the order of a 23% elevation. Whilst
that may not sound like very much, when it is applied to one of the world’s commonest
tumours which not infrequently strikes young women, that implies a substantial and
tragic case load. Furthermore breast cancer is known to be becoming increasingly
common in the Western world, and cultural factors, such as the abortion epidemic -
holocaust and contraceptive plague must be held as primary suspects. This action is
believed to occur because the cells of the breast are stimulated to grow by the pregnancy
hormones, but the hormonal support and guidance is then collapsed after the destruction
of the baby. It is this collapse and genetic destabilization of the actively multiplying and
growing cells in the very act of DNA synthesis which we now understand to be so
potentially devastating to the forming DNA. It is becoming very clear as the 21st century
unfolds that cancer is a genetic disease.
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As was noted earlier it is likely that hormonal contraceptive methods such as the pill also
elevate the risk of breast cancer. It is likely that the effect of abortion and of hormonal
contraception on breast cancer is at least additive or quite possibly multiplicative.

It is no secret that in the nite clubs and on the dance floors, in the rock concerts and at the
pop festivals of the “drugs sex and rock and roll” culture drugs and alcohol are used
together with the sexual license. Alcohol and drugs are accepted as reducing one’s
judgement and one’s inhibitions. Condom use becomes unreliable, and it is likely that
many drugs such as tobacco and cannabis which are themselves associated with the
induction and promotion of cancer, might be expected to synergize in the formation of
hormone dependent tumours. High risk sex, risky sexual and drug behaviours, high risk
partners and needle sharing become common and normative in drink and drug affected
contexts, scenes and communities.

CONCLUSION

In summary it might be said that after 40 years of drugs sex and rock and roll the severe
and chronic individual and cultural hangover has thoroughly exposed the illusions of the
hyped-up marketing and the weak “nazi-like” propagandist science which has falsely
pandered to the indulgent-destructive generation as being the hollow and dreadful sham
that it is. The illusion and the delusion of sexual self-indulgence is responsible for far
more heart ache, crime, broken families, abused children, sexual disease including AIDS
and cervical cancer and almost certainly the rise of the breast cancer epidemic in Western
nations which also practice hormonal contraception and abortion widely, than any other
single cultural influence since World War II.

One group however is not yet involved, and is not at this point responsible for this
disgraceful moral, social and medical anarchy induced by our cultural lies. That is our
youth – the young people entering their teenage years. That our peoples destroyed their
own lives is bad enough – but what have these little ones done to deserve more of the
devastation multiplied up many times for the coming generation, that they should be lied
to, at their great cost? Will we not tell the truth to each other? Will we deny our dear
children who must inherit our “mess in our own nest” the very knowledge they need to
have a better life than we left to them? It has been truly said that “The truth will set us
free.” Will anything else? Why can we not start to tell it today – to those who need it the
very most? All the reports form the culture are in. It is time to live in freedom and in
truth today.

Having said that, and as shared by other authors in this series, traditional faithful
marriage universally reverses and protects against these many ravages. Surely then,
marriage with its romance, its glamour, its reproductivity, its long term rewards, its
cultural enrichment, and its long term bolstering of a robust, scientific and creative
society, would be at once the easiest and most delightful lifestyle option and the finest
concept and ideal to propagate to our youth? When the lie of the populist myths seem so
glaringly obvious, surely gracious truth beckons towards us lighting the way into our
future, a future bright with hope and gladness, and burgeoning with blessing and
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goodness. The prize is life: at stake our integrity: the prospect is peace, fruitfulness and
glory. Let us therefore choose morally, choose with wisdom and choose aright.

Stuart Reece.

WORD COUNT - 3325.

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