They need zippers, not condoms
Eighteen-, 19- and 20-year-old Namibian students, who otherwise would be settling into their local villages during the university winter break, sit in chairs arranged in a semicircle and begin to tackle a question that has frustrated and eluded many for years:
Why has HIV, the virus that tears apart the human immune system, savaged their nation to the point where one out of every five citizens now carries the it?
The statistics are hard to come to grips with – 20 per cent of the nation’s people, and in some areas of Namibia like the Caprivi region, close to an astounding 40 per cent carry the virus.
The students, attending a workshop run by the University of Namibia’s HIV/AIDS peer education program, blame poverty, inequality, underdevelopment and even the lingering travesties of colonialism for their country’s predicament. They even blame themselves and their fellow citizens for abusing alcohol, not using condoms or for having multiple sexual partners.
Themselves? Really? Who woulda thunk it? After all, the colonialists are not grabbing every African dick and shoving it into the nearest available hole, are they? I sincerely doubt the diamond trade - or even the slave trade - had much to do with Africans not being able to keep it in their pants. How about learning a little personal responsibility and a few morals, then see what happens.
And if you get the hang of it in Africa, come on over and teach our gay communities a thing or two about how barebacking just isn’t cool.
Men need to realize that safe sex is in the palm of their hand.
Comment by Stacy — July 10, 2008 @ 10:14 pm
That’s one way of getting carpool tunnel syndrome.
Anyways its human nature to be smug and disregard what others may say. The rear end is never meant for abuse. to be a bit blunt, I don’t give a rat’s dropping what anyone says.
The human body is never meant to go through such punishment whether it be male or female.
it aint wordy but it will do in a pinch.
Comment by B — July 11, 2008 @ 4:17 pm
It might help to realize just what constitutes an AIDs death in Africa before jumping to conclusions. Any death that has symptons shared with having AIDs is considered AIDs so, for example, anyone dying of TB, malaria, menengitis or pneumonia, whether HIV positive or negative is considered to have died from AIDs and so it is reported to WHO. Except that the countries assumed to have the highest rates of death by AIDs, Uganda, Rwanda, Cote d’Ivoire, etc are actually increasing in population. In other words the governemts and health officials of these countries figured the easiest way to get UN money for infrastructure was to exaggerate a pandemic to catastrophic levels.
Comment by Pat Patterson — July 15, 2008 @ 11:12 pm