People Get Drunk And Safe Sex Is Out The Window
Hookers and johns, too. Even in China. There, was that hard to figure out? Well, we're about to spend $2.6 million to get Chinese prostitutes drunk, writes Edwin Mora for CNSNEWS, all in the name of science:
Dr. Xiaoming Li, the researcher conducting the program, is director of the Prevention Research Center at Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit....Li said minimal research has been conducted on the link between alcohol use and prostitution as it relates to HIV.
"Alcohol has been a part of the commerce of sex for many, many years. Unfortunately, both global-wise (and) in the United States, very few researchers are looking at the complex issue of the inter play between alcohol and the commerce of sex," he told CNSNews.com.
Here, allow me: Drink and maybe the skanky guy you are about to fuck will be blurry.
The grant is one of several "international initiatives" sponsored by the National Institutes of Health.Ralph Hingson, director of epidemiology and prevention research at NIAA, told CNSNews.com, "There are many Americans who travel to China each year and they should be made aware of the HIV problem."
Put out a State Department warning. It'll cost you probably $2000 in wages for somebody to write it up, a bunch of somebodies to sit around a table moving and removing the commas, and somebody else to post it on the State Department website and e-mail it to the media.
via reason's Katherine Mangu-Ward
Sheer idiocy. I remember a PhD candidate in the Psych dept. who was doing his thesis on how pain stimuli made animals more aggressive. As in "don't ever approach a wounded animal, it may bite you". Duh, even my kids know that one. Then there was the candidate who did his on how crack addicted pigeons would forgo hitting the food-dispensing button and die pecking away at the crack-dispensing button. Yes, they got government grants for these, and yes, the crack came from the government as well.
Ahhh, back in the day of fat budgets that needed to be spent to prove their necessity so they'd come back the following year. Now they come back because they're zombies that aren't allowed to die.
juliana at May 14, 2009 4:18 AM
juliana- your comment is too good. I can't add anything to it. Ditto.
David M. at May 14, 2009 6:36 AM
I would like to be subject of a study that attempts to prove that the more free money you give a middle-class female under the age of 35 while she is within close proximity of Nordstorm, the more she will spend. I think that sounds like good research.
ahw at May 14, 2009 7:55 AM
So people who consume alcohol make bad decisions? They could have found that out by attending one AA meeting.
Steamer at May 14, 2009 8:26 AM
"Now they come back because they're zombies that aren't allowed to die. "
Allowed to die? Honey, those zombies are somebody's rice bowl, and somebody has connections. Two words for you: Drug War
Jim at May 14, 2009 3:16 PM
"There are many Americans who travel to China each year and they should be made aware of the HIV problem." Oh, for fuck's sake!*
There are many American who travel to China each year as they are aware that there are beautiful (albeit skanky) prostitutes in said country. They know to watch for AIDS, but it's also important that they get laid. There, US Gov't, fixed it for you - where's my grant money? You don't know fuck all **
* Yeah, I just like that one a lot. Nobody's got Australia beat for well-made cussing.
** That's another one I like. We should import more Australians just for the great swear-word-expressions.
Dave Lincoln at May 14, 2009 6:16 PM
"There are many Americans who travel to China each year and they should be made aware of the HIV problem." Oh, for fuck's sake!*
There are many American who travel to China each year as they are aware that there are beautiful (albeit skanky) prostitutes in said country. They know to watch for AIDS, but it's also important that they get laid. There, US Gov't, fixed it for you - where's my grant money? You don't know fuck all **
* Yeah, I just like that one a lot. Nobody's got Australia beat for well-made cussing.
** That's another one I like. We should import more Australians just for the great swear-word-expressions.
Dave Lincoln at May 14, 2009 6:19 PM
sorry, ya'll.
Dave Lincoln at May 14, 2009 6:33 PM
Travelers to South Africa are told that the two biggest risks with prostitutes are AIDS and TB. Then they're advised, to be "safe", to go for the ones who cough.
This is what passes for humor amongst those who trade in human suffering.
Juliana at May 15, 2009 4:53 AM
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