http://www.wisdomofwhores.com/2007/11/30/wanted-used-condoms-handsome-reward/ Of sex and science. Elizabeth Pisani's blog about HIV and other sundry things. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 09:50:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://www.wisdomofwhores.com/2007/11/30/wanted-used-condoms-handsome-reward/comment-page-1/#comment-28 Hairy experience « Unspun Mon, 17 Dec 2007 17:39:30 +0000 http://fingon.visn.co.uk/~wisd0960/2007/11/30/wanted-used-condoms-handsome-reward/#comment-28 [...] clipped from www.wisdomofwhores.com [...] [...] clipped from http://www.wisdomofwhores.com [...]

]]> http://www.wisdomofwhores.com/2007/11/30/wanted-used-condoms-handsome-reward/comment-page-1/#comment-16 Lee Rudolph Thu, 06 Dec 2007 16:53:29 +0000 http://fingon.visn.co.uk/~wisd0960/2007/11/30/wanted-used-condoms-handsome-reward/#comment-16 [I posted essentially this before the website makeover; that response seems to have gotten lost. It is entirely serious.] Elizabeth Pisani asks, of the program already (purportedly) in existence, "where do they get the used condoms?" I have been informed (I do not know with how much accuracy) that many, many used condoms turn up among other refuse on the preprocessing screens in municipal sewage treatment plants in the US; if this is true, and plants of similar design are used in China, I would guess that they would be the easiest source (given that the screened refuse has to be disposed of somehow). [I posted essentially this before the website makeover; that response seems to have gotten lost. It is entirely serious.] Elizabeth Pisani asks, of the program already (purportedly) in existence, “where do they get the used condoms?” I have been informed (I do not know with how much accuracy) that many, many used condoms turn up among other refuse on the preprocessing screens in municipal sewage treatment plants in the US; if this is true, and plants of similar design are used in China, I would guess that they would be the easiest source (given that the screened refuse has to be disposed of somehow).

]]> http://www.wisdomofwhores.com/2007/11/30/wanted-used-condoms-handsome-reward/comment-page-1/#comment-11 Andrew Fri, 30 Nov 2007 18:10:57 +0000 http://fingon.visn.co.uk/~wisd0960/2007/11/30/wanted-used-condoms-handsome-reward/#comment-11 Where will they get the used condoms? A suggestion: Set up a public/private programme where the prostitutes bring in used condoms after the night's work, and receive a small incentive for doing so. Analysis for several diseases is run on the contents, and a running total of infections avoided is, um, disseminated (probably not for the individual women, but for their "stroll.") The recyclers pay a small fee for the used condoms, contributing to the cost of the programme. Hey presto! data, health protection and environmental friendliness in one tidy, um, package. Where will they get the used condoms?
A suggestion: Set up a public/private programme where the prostitutes bring in used condoms after the night’s work, and receive a small incentive for doing so. Analysis for several diseases is run on the contents, and a running total of infections avoided is, um, disseminated (probably not for the individual women, but for their “stroll.”) The recyclers pay a small fee for the used condoms, contributing to the cost of the programme. Hey presto! data, health protection and environmental friendliness in one tidy, um, package.

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