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gobo
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Location: Cambodia
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 Posted: Mon, 28th Jul 2008 03:51 Post subject: TESTING TESTING.... |
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This is info for a project im working on. I am posting it here because someone just hacked my e-mail. just ignore it unless you find it interesting.
There is a myth in South Africa that having sex with a virgin will cure AIDS. The younger the virgin, the more potent the cure. Over 1 million Babies are Raped each year in SA.
The womens health project presented its findings at the Barcelona Aids Conference in June 2002. Their study found 60% of participants first heard of the cleansing theory in the media, meaning that for the majority this tidbit hadn't been acquired as folk wisdom absorbed from the community.
The most controversial finding from the study was that nearly six out of ten respondents believed that having sex with a child younger than 10 was not an act of rape. These individuals did not consider it sexual molestation, but merely an act of sex.
The study also found that 42.9% believed people in their community thought women asked to be raped.
Three quarters agreed with the statement "People in your community believe that a man who is sexually aroused by a woman wearing revealing clothes has the right to rape her."
According to Latasha Treger, a senior programme officer at the project that worked on this study. Child rape in South Africa is the result of a complex situation caused by the social dynamics of male hierarchy and violence against women and children. The idea that having sex with a virgin cleanses you of AIDS does exist in South Africa and there have been reported cases of this as a motivating factor for child rape.
"A previous study in 1999 by sexual health educators in Gauteng - the country's economic hub - found that 32% of the participants interviewed indicated that they believed the myth.
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sources :
http://www.rense.com/general16/AIDSvirginmyth.htm
http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/Features/0,1113,2-11-37_1174729,00.html
http://globallearning.fdu.edu/newsletter_SP05_02/article6.htm
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