I just found out that my rapist is dead. Not only is he dead, but he ended up killing a lot of women. I always wondered if he would rape again, but I never thought he would graduate to murder. 

I was 15 when I met him. It was at a friend's birthday party, and he was from another school, a friend of a friend or a cousin of a friend. We played ping-pong and pool, and he said he liked that I was not one of those girls who sat and watched the boys play, hoping to be noticed.

He was … Read More

The media is a all a bustle about a German safe sex advertisement depicting a woman getting banged by Adolf Hitler. The minute-long advertisement starts with two lustful things ripping each others clothes off and after a few passionate thrusts the man lifts his head and reveals a Hitler face. Safe Sex Ring Tone

The ominous German phrase: Aids Ist Ein Massenmorder (translation: AIDS is a mass murderer) is then splashed across the screen.

The advertisement garnered criticism from organizations representing AIDS victims because there is no mention of using a condom. This is true. Theoretically, a … Read More

In what might be the most miraculous thing to happen to sexually active women since the invention of the pill, University of Utah scientists have developed a new kind of "molecular condom" to protect women in Africa and other impoverished areas from AIDS.

The vaginal gel, which is inserted before sex, turns semisolid in the presence of semen, trapping AIDS virus particles in a microscopic mesh so they can't infect vaginal cells. Birth Control: Should He Pay for Half?

If you're like us, you're probably thinking two things upon learning of this invention:

1) That everyone on the Utah … Read More

Most of you know Roberto Alomar as a slick-fielding, clutch and power-hitting second baseman who played for the Padres, Blue Jays, Orioles, Indians, White Sox, Mets, and Diamondbacks. But Ilya Dall, an ex-girlfriend, claims that he's a guy who boned her bareback while he had the AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome).

According to Deadspin, Ilya Dall (apparently an arm-wrestling champ) claims that the likely Hall Of Fame ballplayer had an AIDS-affirming spinal tap (not "Big Bottom") and deteriorating health back in 2006. They'd be riding bareback for four years at that point. A few of the … Read More

Barbie and Ken's creator, Jack Ryan, had a voracious sexual appetite that spanned both sexes and included a short-lived marriage to Zsa Zsa Gabor. Who would've known?

Author Jerry Oppenheimer, in his new book, Toy Monster: The Big, Bad World of Mattel (Oh, c'mon. Is Mattel really that bad ass?), writes that Ryan was a "full-blown seventies-style swinger" with "a manic need for sexual gratification."

Also (this will shock nobody) Barbie was based off Ryan's horny female ideal—a tall, leggy, blonde with disproportionately large breasts. Well, when he was trying to be straight, we guess.

"When … Read More

Good morning, YourTango readers. Happy December first, we hope you had a great Thanksgiving. Let's get to the news.

According to The Irish World, today is World AIDS Day. Roughly 30 million people have the immunodeficiency condition worldwide and infection rates appear to be on the rise. Let's hope that the awareness generated by this recognition day helps find a cure. The bone marrow transplant thing sounds promising.

British taxi drivers are doing their best to fight STDs. The BBC reports that drivers in the town of Aberdeen are handing out condoms to passengers. A … Read More

We don't often get too heavy about the more dangerous side of sex here at YourTango, but sexually transmitted diseases are part of the bargain, unfortunately.

Amazing news this weekend of medical breakthrough in Germany: a man receiving a bone marrow transplant for leukemia appears to have been cured of HIV, the Wall Street Journal reports.

Typically HIV-positive indivuals take anti-retroviral drugs to treat the virus. But a 42-year-old American man living in Berlin was HIV-positive until a bone marrow transplant with cells from a donor naturally immune to all forms of HIV. Doctors have not … Read More

The HIV virus, which becomes AIDS, possibly dates back to 1900, which is 30 years earlier than researchers originally thought. The Los Angeles Times reports that University of Arizona researchers studied biopsy samples in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Scientists say the virus was first found in chimpanzees but they were unsure when it made the leap from monkeys to human. The first humans were diagnosed in 1981, but the oldest evidence of the disease in man dates back to 1959.

What does this mean for us humans? Hopefully knowing more about where the virus originated, how … Read More

The HIV virus, which becomes AIDS, possibly dates back to 1900, which is 30 years earlier than researchers originally thought. The Los Angeles Times reports that University of Arizona researchers studied biopsy samples in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Scientists say the virus was first found in chimpanzees but they were unsure when it made the leap from monkeys to human. The first humans were diagnosed in 1981, but the oldest evidence of the disease in man dates back to 1959.

What does this mean for us humans? Hopefully knowing more about where the virus originated, how it … Read More

As part of a safe sex initiative in India, the BBC World Service Trust India (in conjunction with the Gates Foundation) has introduced a novel approach to the stem the tide of AIDS in the tech-savvy country; a ring tone. The ring tone is actually just a man repeating the word "condom" over and over sans musical accompaniment, reports the Washington Post.

There are nearly as many cell phone users in India as there are people in the US (roughly 270 million mobile phone-atics). HIV infection is a big taboo in the Land Of The Tiger. … Read More