I suggest that this contribution by <priyom dey> from the British Health Protection agency is load of hogwash.
I cannot believe it is posted with the intent to encourage gays to celebrate and accept their sexuality, but rather to prick us again with the same 'shame stick' that has been stuck into our souls for the last 2000 years.
If that is its intent, let me encourage you all to defy its advice.
This spurious piece of nonsense is taken out of context from a paper dealing in great depth with sexual activity in the British Isles. It is extremely important that governments of the world correctly assess the sexual activities of their peoples. This way they can forecast health care needs and birth rates. The Indian government makes a pigs meal of this assessment regularly. I cannot help but think that this governing care is not the major concern that drives 'priyom dey' to post this....or maybe i just
have a suspicious mind.
The fabricated view point that this truncated message gives is that the British government is preaching to its populous that they should abstain from sex before marriage.
They are not, and they do not.
The only governments who do that are self righteous entities like the UAE, Iran etc.
In western countries the stigma of illicit sexual congress has gradually receeded under unlightened laws, and therefore the health ramifications of sexual activity are now able to be truely monitered.
In countries like India and Pakistan, where sexuality is a socially tainted activity, true health assessment is impossible because of the consequences of telling the truth.
You don't admit to rape.
You don't admit to sodomy.
You don't admit to incest.
You don't admit to pedophilia. The result is rampant sexual abuse, misogynic
law making, and creeping, unmonitered, untreated sexual plagues.
Apart from this is the social stigma. I have a friend In Rawalpindi who has lost all through having loved a man for 12 years, then finally given into his desires and lain with him. He has lost business, money, acceptance, friends....and now the earthquake has finished off what his 'friend' did not.
I denounce anyone who tries to supplant free and accepted sexuality with the chains of 'abstainence'.
If abstainence means acceptance, then it also means every Indian should wear white make up for acceptance into the Oxford Law school and change his/her name to its anglicized form.
Just another form of prejudice, clothed in sweet smelling clothing.
angry
John (Sydney Australia)
priyom dey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
UK urges young people to avoid sex
By Sarah Boseley, Dec 2004
London: Young people should be encouraged to consider
abstaining from sex
outside marriage as one of the options for protecting
themselves against
the epidemic of sexually transmitted infections
sweeping the UK, the
British Health Protection Agency (HPA) suggested
yesterday.
Figures from the HPA, released in its annual report
yesterday, show that
teenagers and young people are disproportionately
affected by infections
such as chlamydia, which can make women infertile, and
gonorrhoea. A
television advertising campaign to try to change the
sexual (and its
related social) behaviour of young people will be
launched in the spring,
the UK government said yesterday. The pounds Sterling
50m campaign will be
as big as that of the 1980s which alerted people to
the dangers of Aids
with graphic images of tombstones and icebergs.
It comes at a time when there is concern about the
ignorance and
carelessness of teenagers and young adults towards sex
and an alarming
rise of sex outside marriage. Chlamydia, gonorrhoea
and genital warts are
all commonest in women aged 16-21 and men aged 20-26,
according to the HPA
report.
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