The column below is worth reprinting in full with a bit of background. recently started to write a regular piece for the Singapore-based gay website Fridae.com.
After three columns he had successfully alienated most of the Singaporean, Asian and Rice Queen Fridae members by writing against the flow on the subject of HIV prevention amongst MSM. In the instalment preceding the one reprinted below, Jan suggested more oral sex and less anal sex as an addition to the panoply of HIV prevention approaches. In no time he was assaulted from …

One of the most famous and successful cabaret artist on the Bangkok scene is reported to have died in the last few days. He started working as a dancer but became famous as Champ. A regular of DJ Station but also on the international scene.

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Children playing in the centre of Phnom Penh. Prohibitive school fees are one of the reasons children do not attend school, notwithstanding the bribe requested by corrupt teachers to let pupils in.
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Prostitution and sex work are particularly difficult subjects to comment on. They are heavily loaded with emotional and often irrational charge especially when trafficking and children are taken into consideration. I would usually leave these topics to more qualified commentators such as Laura Agustin, but I’ll make an exception when HIV is involved.
What prompted this posting is …

The pontifical position on condom, based on ignorance, fallacy and a struggle of the Church to survive, as well as the response of the scientific community and activists are well known and documented (search this blog for some examples of both). But in a “Reflection” to be published in The lancet Samuel Ponce de Leon and colleagues add more weight to the argument that condoms are an essential tool in the fight against HIV in the future: evolution.

Now evolution is something the Church is also in denial about despite the …

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