But, in Africa, it's a bit different; there, from the start, the disease spread throughout the entire societies (men, wmen and children alike), even in communities which never saw a needle (not even to innoculate against, say, polio). So, the question arises: is the attitude in Africa more relaxed towards bi-sexual relationships than it is in the "civilised world", with people having more freedom to move between the two "options" (like in the ancient Greece or ancient China) without having to "declare" oneself?Actually, in the regions of Africa where AIDS is endemic it's not that people are more relaxed about bisexual relationships, it's that they're more relaxed about extramarital heterosexual relationships. It's fairly common in many African traditional societies for women and men to have multiple sexual partners (the Masai as an example... men have many wives if they can afford them, and the wives take lovers), so ANY sexually transmitted disease spreads comparatively quickly.
Katrina (M.A. in Anthropology)
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