December 02, 2006
The Fucking Problem
"Fighting AIDS 'includes the ABC approach, encouraging abstinence, being faithful, and using condoms, with abstinence as the only sure way to avoid the sexual transmission of HIV/AIDS,' said Bush."
Bush then went on to enlighten, astound, and dazzle the crowd with such groundbreaking revelations as, "If you don't piss off a dog, it more than likely won't bite you", and "Cheese is good."
On a more serious note, I've never understood the idea behind promoting abstinence as a viable way to avoid STDs or abortions. Of course it makes sense, but it only makes sense in the most obvious fashion as far as lowest-common-denominator thinking is concerned. And that's not just speaking as a guy with a pretty voracious sexual appetite, but as a human being with the ability to apply my mind to a situation and use reasoning to come to more seasoned conclusions than championing the concept of "Keep your dick/'gina in your pants, and you probably won't get AIDS" over the use of condoms.
Meanwhile, those of us who realize that people like to have sex, sex is good as long as it's consensual, and that we don't plan on stopping anytime soon have to revoke thinking privileges from the abstinence crowd, grab the brains wheel, stop the car from going off the cliff, and come up with more logical conclusions that are actually based in reality, i.e.: condoms, birth control pills, morning-after pill, et al.
And while Tony Blair (or "Sweet Widdle Poodle Muffykins", as George Bush likes to call him) does something sensible for once and advocates the use of condoms, we've got the President of the United States making yet another asinine statement that, yet again, is not an accurate representation of the standard logic of a fair portion of Americans.
While I certainly promote abstinence/eugenics/castration to keep drooling morons from breeding, I don't think that it's a very sensible solution to cure AIDS. And I can't think of a bigger "fuck you" to the concept of AIDS Day than someone saying "Hey, guess what? If you don't bump uglies, you won't get the AIDS!"
I guess what I'm trying to say is: Is it 2008 yet?
Posted by Jake at December 2, 2006 06:45 AM
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