When I think of New Zealand, I think of bucolic scenery, lovely seas, and fantastic mountains, but it turns out the Aukland government is fighting turf wars, gang violence, and prostitution in the streets of a number of the country's towns. The perhaps "interesting" answer has been to try to outlaw outdoor prostitution, which officials believe is the primary problem, but the real push leading to the legislation is that residents are offended by all the used condoms to be found in alley ways. Perhaps it would make those officials feel better if they knew that going back to the 1920s, British lawmakers tried the same thing in London, for the same reasons. One of those was quoted as saying he wanted to collect all the used c's and have a bon fire with them.
Well, weird British Lords or not, at least the low lives in N
I wouldn't wear them, but they are pretty fetching!
Yes, it's silly!
A MAN was juggling three crying babies while trying to board a a train.
Once he finally found a way to sit down with all these little bundles, the lady sitting next to him asked: "Are they all yours?"
The man replied: "No, I work in a condom factory and these are some of the dicustomer returns."
The body which govern Australian football is disciplining footballers for making and posting to UTube a homemade video featuring a condom-wearing rubber rooster having too much sex - this with a dead chicken being used like a puppet. The Aussie newspapers all over this story, but my only question is "Why"?
It's gross and very silly, but to give it so much credence surely just makes these small minded men a. AFL is demanding North Melbourne take disciplinary action against the players responsible for a video featuring a ##condom-clad rubber rooster performing sex acts.
It was made by a group of up to seven Kangaroos players during pre-season training and was seen by all players at the club.
It shows a rubber rooster manoeuvred by a human hand performing sex acts on a real chicken carcass, which is meant to depict a woman.
The rubber rooster wears a ##condom on its head in the four-minute film, titled The Adventures of Little Boris
In what an Irish HIV/AIDS expert calls a "very worrying trend," the STD rate is booming in Ireland, and the education needed to combat that has been pretty sadly lacking. This is perhaps not surprising given that Ireland was the last of the Western nations not only to get the message about safe sex, but to even allow condoms to be sold - legally - in the Green Isle. Many thanks to Bono and his group's support of the small but determined movement to sell condoms, the nation finally was "allowed" to make that choice in the 1980s, but it is still not something that has been embraced by the Irish government. AND, there is a scary new movement to bar ALL forms of contraceptives in Ireland, one led by a former chemist and a famous footballer. They clearly do not understand their own social history OR the fact that in just the last year alone, the HIV rate in Ireland has risen by over 25%. This is a "worrying trend." More worrying in some ways is a desire on the part of some to drag the Irish back into the dark days of illegal contraception, disease, and unwanted children.
With all the vitriole being spilled over Pope Benedict's condemnation of the condom whilst visiting AIDS' ridden Africa, it might be that the experts, and everyone else, have missed a chance to give the whole sex, condoms, safety, morality issue another think.
That is not to say that what the pope said was "right" in the most literal sense - not to speak of his appalling timing! - but that is it not possible that the condom has become such a Western symbol of "safety" that all those experts who have been trying to spread the safety message in Africa may be taking the wrong tack, and that is why billions of c's have not made any inroad into the HIV/AIDS problem...in fact, it just keeps getting worse?
I think that the director of Harvard University's HIV Prevention Research Project, who has supported Pope Benedict s recent controversial claim that condom distribution was exacerbating the problem of Aids in Africa, may have a point. He points out that his is not a Catholic view, nor is it about morality, but it is about what does and does not work. Dr Green has said studies had shown that there is not a single country in Africa where HIV prevalence has come down primarily because of condoms.
"We now see HIV going down in about eight or nine countries in Africa and in every case, we see a decrease in the proportion of men and women who report having more than one sex partner in the past year. So, when the pope said that the answer really lies in monogamy and marital faithfulness, that s exactly what we found empirically.
We have for a number of years now found the wrong kind of association between condom-availability and levels of condom use. You see the wrong kind of relationship with HIV prevalence.
Instead of seeing this associated with lower HIV infection rates, it s actually associated with higher HIV infection rates. Part of that is because the people using condoms are the people who are having risky sex.
Studies in Uganda had found that people for whom condoms had been made available were found to have a greater number of sex partners. So that cancels out the risk reduction that the technology of condoms ought to provide. That s the phenomenon known as risk compensation. "
This is a bit like the mid-60s when young people became much more blase' about using protection because they "knew" that new miracle drugs could cure venereal disease. Little did they realize what they were spreading, and how they were contributing to the ever-increasing number of hybrid STDs.
The message in Africa has had to be a simple one - use condoms, save yourselves. As that message spreads, those who are not monogomous figure they are "safe" or "safer" when they use condoms sometimes.
The programs that have worked in a big way in Africa have made protection available, have taught about it, BUT the big message was about sticking to one partner, remaining faithful, or as the early and successful Uganda program put it: "Zero Grazing" !
Dr Green ads that "Condoms work in certain types of situations and [with] certain sub-populations and condoms have had a positive national impact in certain concentrated epidemics, so yes, I don t agree with the pope across the board. " He simply feels that a one-size fits all approach does not work, and that the message needs to be much broader, and yes, to include that ever-shrinking i
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