Is SAFE SEX so 90's?
What do you think “safe sex” is?
No, I asked you first.
You don’t want to define it incorrectly, because that would mean you’re having unsafe sex, right? Or sex that’s less safe than the sex that guy over there is having. Or maybe, if your definition is really wrong, we’ll all finally know that you’re not having any sex at all. Or perhaps if your definition of “safe” differs from that of the person with whom you’re having sex, one or both of you have been having unsafe sex without even knowing it.
“To me, there’s just no excuse not to be on a really strict birth...
I can see the argument that the real issue is promiscuity and the practicing of safe sex, but the stats do demonstrate that gay/bisexual men are more likely to have HIV than straight men. Short of testing every donor, I thnk that this is a reasonable approach. Surely there are much bigger issues surrounding homophobia than this - there is clearly no intent to be homophobic, merely a desire to keep blood safe through a practical approach.
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Emma put in so much great work to this article and I was even blown away by how
perspicacious some of her insights were. But who put together this cover page?
This "Scene's View"?
Both of these atrocious additions to an otherwise phenomenal piece are really
frustrating. It wasn't enough for society to burden women with the more
significant consequences of unsafe sex, and as one commenter in the article
notes, the duty to enforce that safe sex be practiced, but the scene, before
the article even begins, takes it one step further to stigmatize, delegitimize and outright ridicule a number of effective methods for practicing safer sex.
Read along with the in-your-face cover "is safe sex so 90s?" it feels like the
Scene wishes safer sex actually did take a giant leap backwards. Next time one of your writers
puts in such a brilliant effort to advance the University's healthy practices and
knowledge maybe you should put more effort into supporting his or her message
and cause, rather than belittling it before the article even has a chance to
appear.
To Emma and her article, "well done".
To everything else about this scene - HUGE Thumbs down!!