Health officials recommend safe-sex practices regardless of the partner.

"Today, many of the baths openly encourage safe-sex practices," he said.

The same safe-sex practices that are drummed into the heads of every teenager and young adult these days are sufficient to keep them and their partners safe as well.

Food, sleep and safe-sex practices become distractions.

Certainly on-line discussions of safe-sex practices, of birth control methods, and of AIDS prevention methods will be suspect.

The company is particularly well known for its LOADED range, which features an inside secret pouch to hide a condom, promoting safe-sex practices between individuals.

Just as important as asking your partner about safe-sex practices is asking yourself on a regular basis.

In Uganda, for instance, H.I.V. infection rates have diminished greatly because of public health programs that encourage safe-sex practices.

Here's something uncanny: Men who test positive are likely to be more consistently adherent, as a group, to safe-sex practices than negative men.