Note: Rather unusually, this post has a political content that I usually keep for myself or for friends and close relatives. Politics is too serious to be discussed on the Internet and a 600-word post can only gloss over events, beliefs and concepts that would need books on their own.
The last few days have been rather hectic between work and the preparation of my journey to Thailand. I had to cancel and book again my flight due to the closure of the 4th largest airport in South East Asia because …

The BBC reports on South African Children as young as 15 shooting up with grounded HIV anti-retrovirals sometimes mixed with painkillers and marijuana.
“I couldn’t believe it. I was shocked at first, these were school boys in their school uniforms,” documentary-maker Tooli Nhlapo told the BBC World Service’s Outlook programme.
“They take a pill and grind it, until it is a powder. Some also mix it with painkillers and others mix it with marijuana,” said Ms Nhlapo. “They showed me how they roll it and smoke it.”
The pills are either bought …

Speaking at an international AIDS conference, Moscow’s mayor Yury Luzhkov said that the authorities will continue to ban gay parades to prevent the spread of HIV and AIDS.
“We have banned and will continue to forbid this propaganda by sexual minorities, as they could turn out to be one of the factors in the spread of HIV infections”
Adding that condoms were not a reliable means of protection against HIV and AIDS
“Certain manufacturers state that condoms are reliable protection against AIDS, but modern science has proven this is untrue.”
What modern science Luzhkov …

In a study conducted by the Institute of Condom Consultancy in Singen (germany) Frenchmen claimed to need 15.48 cm long condom. That’s about 6 inch and 3 cm more than what the average Greek required.
The Study was conducted in 10,500 men in 25 countries who were asked to measure their penis and enter the number into a database.

This is NOT a Frenchman
These ARE cans of Pringles

According to Jan Vinzenz Krause, the institute’s director, the survey was aimed at educating youngsters about the importance of effective contraception. It could also be …

This is a cross posting from Laura Agustín’s blog, Border Thinking on Migration and Trafficking: Culture, Economy and Sex. It is worth circulating broadly in an age where everything is conflated and reduced to a black and white understdanting.
Briefly, sex workers at the Barn Funn Brothel have been forcibly “rescued and liberated” by NGOs, charity workers or the Police (if the latter can be considered as a rescue).
In this poster designed by EMPOWER in Chiang Mai Thailand, the workers list the reasons why they do not wish to be rescued …