Well, what do you know, condoms work when abstinence doesn't

Condoms protect women from virus

A three-year study of female college students – all virgins at the start – found that women whose partners always wore a condom during sex were 70 percent less likely to become infected with the human papilloma virus, or HPV, than those whose partners used protection less than 5 percent of the time.

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Condoms have been shown convincingly to prevent pregnancy and AIDS. But conservatives who want to see abstinence taught in schools have long argued that condoms do not protect well against diseases such as HPV, because men can spread the virus to women from sores on their genitals outside the area covered by a condom.

However, the researchers at the University of Washington found that the chances of HPV being spread that way appear to be small.

Of course, there's also the little matter of the recently approved HPV vaccine, offering a double whammy against HPV if you're young enough and not already infected.