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La sabiduria de las putas, stilo mejicano

elizabeth — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 17:56:36 +0000

I’ve just spent an interesting couple of days at the Cuidad de las Ideas festival in Puebla in Mexico. I spoke of sex and drugs as usual; Puebla being one of the more conservative towns in this still overwhelmingly Catholic country, some were perhaps shocked by the directness of my language. But I was more shocked still by the absurdity of some of the responses.

One woman, who tends as many in the audience towards the well-preserved Russian hooker look, asked me afterwards whether it was true that HIV could pass through a condom. I get that a lot, so I just explained how daft the idea was. “Ah! I’m a Doctor of Psychology and I didn’t know that,” she said. That slightly floored me, but it was nothing compared with what followed: “You said there was not much good news around HIV. But my colleagues tell me there is, that nowadays homosexuality is 80% reversible.”

This in a country whose capital already allows gay marriage. Apparently there is still a long way to go…

Para los Hispanofonos, aqui la presentacion. Tampoco uno de mi mejores, pero se hace lo que pueda.

At last, there’s a cure for AIDS!

elizabeth — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 16:00:49 +0000

Brideshead Revisited — the gay boy’s cut

elizabeth — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:31:52 +0000

(Source: Youtube via Towleroad)

Red sports cars go global

elizabeth — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 19:03:34 +0000

It’s official. Mid-life crisis is a global phenomenon, according to a a new study, reported in the Financial Times. It happens to men and women, rich and poor, married and unmarried. We love our 20s and 30s, get a bit grumpy in our mid-40s and then cheer up again by the time we’re 70 (if we last that long).

On the subject of which:

Getting behind sex ed

elizabeth — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 11:53:45 +0000

I have been greatly seduced by The MidWest Teen Sex Show. Its monthly podcasts aim to inform teenagers about the ins and outs of sex. Their audience must include thousands of teenagers who have been keep in Three Monkeys ignorance by the Bush administration’s “abstinence only” programmes — programmes which I note have been generously re-funded by a Democrat controlled Congress. But in truth, plenty of adults I know would benefit from watching some of their delightfully funny videos.

Here’s one example, about that oh-so-taboo topic, anal sex:

I do have one question for the MidWest Teen Sex crowd: do they, like me, find themselves dumped in people’s spam filters (and zoned out completely from their Chinese audience) because the electronic guardians of our collective morality assume they are purveyors of porn?

Dial 999, Spanish style

elizabeth — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 09:32:57 +0000

Before you go to the pharmacy – sex ed from Ali G

elizabeth — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 11:51:29 +0000

Another reason never to leave home without your condoms

elizabeth — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 11:51:12 +0000