HIV
Her rapist is dead, but new revelations about his life re-open a victim's wounds.
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
Health officials lure people to get tested with a $10 Wal-Mart gift card and it works!
How does a frustrated health worker amidst a scary syphilis outbreak get people to check their bits? Chlamydia Now Being Blamed For Male Infertility As Well
Offer them $10 gift cards to Wal-Mart, of course. Duh!
Syphilis cases in Forsyth, N.C. have more than tripled in the past year, and health officials are delighted that a Wal-Mart gift card seems to be the missing, high-rolling link to get people interested in their HIV and syphilis status.
After a weekend of door-to-door canvassing, health workers got 603 people tested for syphlilis and HIV. When surveyed, half said the … Read More
Would Hitler's face make you use condoms?
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
It's a vaginal gel for women in AIDS-afflicted countries, but shouldn't it be for everyone?
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
One man shares his candid thoughts about dating a woman with herpes.
A reader sent me an email and asked me if I would ever date someone with an incurable STD. She had recently been diagnosed with the HSV virus (that’s herpes, y'all), and wanted my answer to be honest and not "PC." So here it is goes, my unvarnished, gut reaction to the question: No, I would not date someone with an incurable STD.
Like all things having to do with love and sex and relationships, so much depends on the timing. If we're talking about a first date, I imagine the scenario would go something like this:
ME: "What are … Read More
A recent study in Uganda proves that ladies like their men minus the foreskin.
On our womanly quest for mind-blowing intercourse, us gals tend to have a laser-like focus on penis girth, length, and all around prettiness (if you will). But you'd be shocked to learn how little of our Cosmopolitan-laden discussions involve circumcision. Circumcision Doesn't Reduce Sexual Sensation
Perhaps this is because (according to some statistics) close to 80% of American men are cut. So in an American woman's dating experience she may run into an errant flappy-skinned (excuse the mental picture) man, but more often than not he'll fall into a novelty pile. In other words, there … Read More
A new study suggests frequent exposure to HIV through saliva produces immunity.
Sometimes a study comes out that makes you go: "Waaaaait a second, science. Where's the catch? I'm on to you!"
Such was the case when we came across this gem of a research project that claims giving head to HIV positive men may inadvertently boost one's own immune system to the virus. Yes, Klara Hasselrot of Stockholm's Karolinska Institutet is hypothesizing that antibodies are formed in the saliva of HIV negative folks with HIV positive partners who let the tainted semen mingle in their mouth, but not in their private parts.
What? But we've been told since … Read More
Former Major League ballplayer sued by Ilya Dall for exposing her to AIDS.
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
A bone marrow transplant in Germany gives doctors hope for a cure.
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 deadly virus dates back to 1900.
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