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, …

Jaboya is a form of bartering observed on the coast of Kenya where a customer is also a lover. Men fish and women buy the fish to sell on the market. A woman without a boyfriend or a male partner would not be able to obtain fish. Women with limited income therefore offer sex to fishermen in exchange for fish. Fishermen on the other hand have a lot of choice and often more than one customer, and hence are involved in a network of sexual encounters fuelling the HIV …

“A tiny group of Republican senators continues to block a vote on an important bill to increase American spending on AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis around the world” i.e. PEPFAR.
Republicans opposing the re-authorisation of PEPFAR have done so on different grounds. A recurring argument being the cost of the President’s plan which, lest we forget represents less than 1.5% of the cost of the Iraq war. Another argument is the elimination of the statutory ban on admitting people infected with the HIV virus into the US, putting the country on …