i used to want to do professional work in hiv prevention; now i do professional work in computers and do peer education about hiv. (if you know me, and you have any questions about hiv or any other sexually transmitted infection, email me, by the way. if i don't know the answer, i'll find you one or i'll find you a person who can.)

jon carroll talks about hiv and how the united states government is for punishing people who have sex. (you thought that was only the rule in horror movies, i bet...)

JON CARROLL:

There is, of course, a simple way to drastically retard the spread of HIV. It is simple and cheap. It requires three minutes of training and has no moving parts. It's called a condom. And the United States is against it.

The Bush administration apparently believes that abstinence is the only acceptable means of birth control. If people refrain from being abstinent, then they must suffer the consequences. Increasingly, one of the consequences is death.

In the simplest terms, that's the choice: sex or death. The administration chooses death. Tough beans, Africa; you shoulda thought of that before you started playing slap and tickle.

This is supposed to be the pro-life administration, but one of its most far-reaching decisions is pro-death. This administration is supposed to uphold morality, but there is no more deeply immoral position than this: Sex is punishable by death. It is disgusting; it is disturbing; it is being done in our name.