Wow… who woulda thought 24hours spent a quarter of the way into the deceptively fucking huge state of Pennsylvania could have such an effect on a boy. They even got me to play sports for about thirty minutes…
by krisis
thoughts
It’s strange to think about sex in America before AIDS existed. Without having to worry about anything except for pregnancy or the occasional threat of clamydia or syphilis, what would today’s culture be like? Not that i’d be out on the streets humping everything that passed me by, but i think the importance and trust that i attach to sex would no longer really be applicable. Do you ever ponder that? If you have any relevant thoughts, let me know.
One of the main reasons i find the Catholic church disgusting is that they refuse to advocate any form of contraceptive birth control. I think even the Pope realizes by now that people are having premarital sex, but the church’s stance on the use of condoms and the birth control pill hasn’t changed an inch. While this just makes them seem all the more backwards within the bounds of American culture, in many countries (especially in Latin America) the church’s word is law, and it’s easier to obey a law that says not to use condoms then to obey a law that says not to have sex. Either you’ve got to have people obey both laws, or neither.
Today is “A Day (with)Out Weblogs,” in observance of World AIDS day. The silence is deafening, defeating, and absurd. While some of the originators of this movement certainly have their hearts in the correct place (a place that seeks to emulate the popular “A Day (with)Out Art”), i think limiting the blogging world to silence is completely the opposite of what this day requires from us as intelligent human beings. Our art is the art of gabbing and linking and wasting time; today perhaps we should donate a little of our time to gabbing about AIDS/HIV, linking to information about it, and spending our time educating ourselves.
I am a thrice certified AIDS/HIV Peer Educator (Red Cross twice, Planned ParentHood once) and have served four years as a Peer Educator as well as conducted coursework in AIDS related topics. Silence on my part would be a waste. If you can claim any actual knowledge of AIDS/HIV, your wasting a day of your life on the behalf of other lives that are wasting away. If you can’t claim to be properly educated in AIDS/HIV your silence is a waste as well unless you’re spending the time learning something about this disease that has cast a pall over the entire world.
If today needs to be a day of your silence, please don’t let that silence go wasted. Please.