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You wrote "True, the Catholic Church also goes around opposing the use of condoms in AIDS-ravaged Africa. "
This might be the right rationalist position:
http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2009/03/18/a-dead-debate/
"That aside, the good news for the Catholic Church’s supporters is that–even if, inevitably, the Pope’s counterintuitive suggestion enraged the liberal establishment–many editorialists now accept at least part of the Catholic position that the best solution to AIDS in Africa is fundamental behavior change, rather than condoms."
Passing out condoms increases the amount of sex but makes each sex act less dangerous. So theoretically it's indeterminant whether it increases or decreases the spread of AIDS.
I can't find any evidence that Epstein endorses TAC's conclusion that handing out condoms can actually do harm, even though her work is the sole evidence they cite, and frankly it's pretty implausible on the face of it.