Comments on: Microbicides don’t work. Now what? http://www.wisdomofwhores.com/2009/12/14/microbicides-dont-work-now-what/ Of sex and science. Elizabeth Pisani's blog about HIV and other sundry things. Mon, 26 Dec 2011 02:54:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Lee Rudolph http://www.wisdomofwhores.com/2009/12/14/microbicides-dont-work-now-what/comment-page-1/#comment-2711 Lee Rudolph Tue, 29 Dec 2009 01:41:06 +0000 http://www.wisdomofwhores.com/?p=1993#comment-2711 >Stigma is not always were >we think it is Come to that, a stigma is part of the female sex organ of a flowering plant. And, while double-checking that in my big dic, I have just learned that a stigma is also "a spot on the surface of an ovary marking the point where the rupture of a Graafian follicle will occur" (making--it would seem--*every* conception at least a bit maculate). OMGz, sex is everywhere! >Stigma is not always were
>we think it is

Come to that, a stigma is part of the female sex organ of a flowering plant. And, while double-checking that in my big dic, I have just learned that a stigma is also “a spot on the surface of an ovary marking the point where the rupture of a Graafian follicle will occur” (making–it would seem–*every* conception at least a bit maculate).

OMGz, sex is everywhere!

]]> By: roger http://www.wisdomofwhores.com/2009/12/14/microbicides-dont-work-now-what/comment-page-1/#comment-2705 roger Sat, 26 Dec 2009 12:16:18 +0000 http://www.wisdomofwhores.com/?p=1993#comment-2705 Well, actually they did not have it "up the wazoo" as it ws a vaginal microbicides. So I don't know how you say vagina in Pama-Nyungan but that could be interesting! As for the conclusion, it simply means that there are very compelling reasons not to use condoms, one of them being the desire/pressure to conceive. Stigma is not always were we think it is.... Well, actually they did not have it “up the wazoo” as it ws a vaginal microbicides. So I don’t know how you say vagina in Pama-Nyungan but that could be interesting!

As for the conclusion, it simply means that there are very compelling reasons not to use condoms, one of them being the desire/pressure to conceive. Stigma is not always were we think it is….

]]> By: Lee Rudolph http://www.wisdomofwhores.com/2009/12/14/microbicides-dont-work-now-what/comment-page-1/#comment-2703 Lee Rudolph Tue, 22 Dec 2009 01:26:31 +0000 http://www.wisdomofwhores.com/?p=1993#comment-2703 . a population that had . safe sex counselling . up the wazoo Apparently wazoo-based treatment modalities are doomed; back to the drawing-board. . a population that had
. safe sex counselling
. up the wazoo

Apparently wazoo-based treatment modalities are doomed; back to the drawing-board.

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