Comments on: Ms Musings is such a good blog http://www.amptoons.com/blog/archives/2003/09/06/ms-musings-is-such-a-good-blog/ Feminist, anti-racist, pro-fat, plus whatever else we feel like talking about. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 09:24:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: John Isbell http://www.amptoons.com/blog/archives/2003/09/06/ms-musings-is-such-a-good-blog/#comment-4166 John Isbell Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.amptoons.com/blog/archives/2003/09/06/ms-musings-is-such-a-good-blog/#comment-4166 I had a student who worked with the Peace Corps in Kenya, and she also told me about a male belief that having sex with virgins could not only prevent catching HIV, but remove it once you had it. The virgins are generally very young, often prostituted or raped, and often contract HIV. AIDS education and law enforcement could reduce that awful pattern. I'd talk now about the Bush AIDS in Africa initiative, except that he seems to have abandoned it. I had a student who worked with the Peace Corps in Kenya, and she also told me about a male belief that having sex with virgins could not only prevent catching HIV, but remove it once you had it. The virgins are generally very young, often prostituted or raped, and often contract HIV. AIDS education and law enforcement could reduce that awful pattern. I’d talk now about the Bush AIDS in Africa initiative, except that he seems to have abandoned it.

]]> By: Eli Stephens http://www.amptoons.com/blog/archives/2003/09/06/ms-musings-is-such-a-good-blog/#comment-4167 Eli Stephens Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.amptoons.com/blog/archives/2003/09/06/ms-musings-is-such-a-good-blog/#comment-4167 Too bad they haven't yet discovered Baghdad Burning (http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/), which describes one of the most important ongoing struggles for women's rights in the world today - the plight of women in Iraq as a result of the U.S. invasion of that country. Eli Stephens Left I on the News http://lefti.blogspot.com Too bad they haven’t yet discovered Baghdad Burning (riverbendblog.blogspot.com/), which describes one of the most important ongoing struggles for women’s rights in the world today - the plight of women in Iraq as a result of the U.S. invasion of that country.

Eli Stephens
Left I on the News
http://lefti.blogspot.com

]]> By: Raznor http://www.amptoons.com/blog/archives/2003/09/06/ms-musings-is-such-a-good-blog/#comment-4168 Raznor Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.amptoons.com/blog/archives/2003/09/06/ms-musings-is-such-a-good-blog/#comment-4168 John, the topic was somewhat discussed in a post at Alas a while back on baby rape. It's an old, strong myth that sex with a virgin will cure a venereal disease, where the majority of the population isn't educated in science. (The myth was even held in England by all classes until relativelyrecently, when science and biology became common fare for schools) Thus education is the only way to eliminate that myth. John, the topic was somewhat discussed in a post at Alas a while back on baby rape. It’s an old, strong myth that sex with a virgin will cure a venereal disease, where the majority of the population isn’t educated in science. (The myth was even held in England by all classes until relativelyrecently, when science and biology became common fare for schools) Thus education is the only way to eliminate that myth.

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