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VIDEO: New Thai Condom Campaign

Another Funny Thai Promotional Video – Translation below.

-          Happy birthday
-          Where is my gift?

-          Oh so big!
-          Can you take it home?
-          Use a bag?
-          You don’t trust me?
-          Safety first!
“Be open to talk”

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Safe sex? Sell it “as good as bareback”

Bareback sex is a serious matter when it comes to HIV prevention. It is an issue difficult to address and which often triggers heated debates. Beyond the differences in  opinions surrounding bareback sex, it is obvious that sex with and without condom is not the same and bareback practitioners often emphasise the difference in sensation between protected sex and bareback sex. Real or not, this difference made some people thinking and got them to understand that not everybody is prepared to sacrifice safety to pleasure, and that if it …

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SCRAPS (things I would like to have written about)

… but did not have the time to…
I would like to have blogged about this thought provoking excerpt from Russell Banks’ The Darling on the difference between empathy and sympathy.
“What was ethically and even practically wrong with having empathy towards the other? For a long time, I answered, Nothing. Nothing at all. It’s good politics. I see a blind man about to cross a street and think, He can’t see the whizzing traffic, he needs me to see it for him, to take his arm and escort him over to …