Confused Much?

I was recently talking to a friend who is from South Africa and he was telling me about AIDS there and how as part of the effort to start its spread people started sex education. However, this was completely unsuccessful. The condoms that they passed out to promote safe sex had directions stapled to it, going THROUGH the condom obviously defeating the purpose. Even more surprising then that, people would put the cucumbers that they were taught with next to the bed, put a condom on it, and proceed to have sex. Although funny at first, I found it depressing how uneducated these people were. In a culture that is so overly informed and centralized around sex, it is amazing to me that there are places around the world that don't even know how to properly use a condom. In my mind, that is one of the first things you learn about is how to use a condom. There are so many resources that make them available to us, without holes, and that encourage us to use them. Not only that, but there is definitely more then enough education in school, media, and of course from the dreaded sex talk that is unbelievable to me that a place can be so clueless.