It takes two to tango. Knowing and sharing your
HIV status is your choice and responsability
Behaving responsably is everyone’s duty

A new report published by Sigma Research shows that, 57% of gay men supported the prosecution and imprisonment of people with HIV recklessly infecting a sexual partner with the virus (commented by Michael Carter at AIDSMAP).
This support was more prominent amongst Gay men who never tested for HIV than amongst those who tested at least once for HIV and were negative whilst less than 20% of those who tested HIV positive agreed …

From Mekong Erotics: Men Loving/Pleasuring/Using Men in Lao PDR.
By Chris Littleton.
Bangkok: UNESCO Bangkok, 2008
I am 18 years old, a student in my last year at secondary school in Vientiane. My grandmother was a folk singer (Morlam). She loves dancing and so do I. I wanted to follow grandma, I love dancing like a woman. When I was 7 years old, I joined a local cultural centre. While playing with friends, I was glad when they touched my body with their groins.
My first sexual experience was at 10 years old with …

In Sizwe’s Test (originally entitled Three Letters Plague), author Jonny Steinberg recalled his deep feeling of shame associated with his first HIV test. Discussing his experience with a psychotherapist friend, she found an analogy with how pregnant women were prohibited to appear in public three or four generations ago as they would have been a huge source of shame.
“What was the root of that shame? What was it that had to be concealed? It is not the fact that she has sex. Everyone knows she has. It is the external …

Men Loving \ Pleasuring \ Using Men in Lao PDR
UNESCO Bangkok is publishing the first ethnographic study of male-to-male sex, sexuality and erotics in Laos. Researched by Chrys Lyttleton from the Macquarie University in Australia and a team of Lao researchers, Thadum Sayarath, Santiphap Laungbouheuang and Chittaphone Santavasy, this long awaited work provides an in-depth and rare insight into a culture that remains mostly hidden and inaccessible to Westerners.
Below is the foreword to this study by Sheldon Shaeffer, Director of Unesco Bangkok. Extract of the interviews conducted by the researchers …

In a study published in STI online, Michael Reece and Colleagues empirically assessed the relationship between men’s penis size and their perception of condom feel and fit. Such perception is particularly important for the promotion of correct and consistent use of condom by men, and consequently their efficacy to prevent sexually transmitted diseases.
1,661 men self-reported penile dimensions ranging from 4 to 26 cm in length and 3 to 19 cm in circumference and were consequently grouped in 3 different dimension groups, “shorter,” medium and “longer” (not short, medium and long!).
Unsurprisingly, …