1. What is the author trying to convey/suggest with the title? (what does the title mean?)
Elizabeth Pisani is trying to convey the variation of sexual experience and the savvy that attaches to it.
2. The author suggests that many efforts and messages of HIV prevention are wasting money (inefficient use of funds). A. What efforts/messages have been tried, and B. Why have they not been successful in HIV prevention? (what have we done wrong?)
3. A. What does the author suggest needs to be done to reduce HIV/AIDs, and B. Why does she think most people would not support it? (What can actually work?)
Elizabeth would like for us to go away from the abstinence-only concept, educate
4. A. Although the book primarily discusses HIV/AIDS in Asia, …show more content…
Therefore, everyone hides behind the idea of “poverty and development”, when in fact it is a problem of sex, ”lots of simultaneous sexual partnerships, lots of untreated STIs and lots of uncircumcised men”, (book 134)
5. Chapter 6 presents ideas on abstinence, sex and condoms. Summarize the main points of this chapter. (i.e. What does the author say about these topics and how they affect data and HIV? What is the impact of the government, religion and ideology? …show more content…
To begin with, the approach President George W. Bush took in preventing HIV. “We need to tell our children that abstinence is the only certain way to avoid HIV. It works every time”. The only way that abstinence works, is if children are willing to abstain from all kinds of sex. We all know that is not entirely true. If that was true then we wouldn’t have such a high rate of teen pregnancies, diseases, and etc. In addition, around 72 percent of pledgers had sex before marriage and were less likely to use contraceptives when their hormones got the best of them. When we are developing prevention methods, we need to be realistic. To add emphasis on that, not everyone will wait abstain from sex until marriage, and we cannot force people to do that. What we need to do is have a comprehensive sex education and inform every one of the risks of having unprotected sex. To be quite frank the idea of using a condom isn’t fun. Condom can create awkward sex moments and even reduce sensation for both parties. But we have to look at the pros and condoms. Use of condoms has more pros than cons. For example, it can protect you from unintended pregnancies, infections, and even HIV. Therefore, lets way the scale, embarrassing sex, or deadly infections? I’ll take embarrassing sex for 300 please. Those who are religious are sought to be wicked, when they have sex before marriage. This causes them to not seek for
Elizabeth Pisani is trying to convey the variation of sexual experience and the savvy that attaches to it.
2. The author suggests that many efforts and messages of HIV prevention are wasting money (inefficient use of funds). A. What efforts/messages have been tried, and B. Why have they not been successful in HIV prevention? (what have we done wrong?)
3. A. What does the author suggest needs to be done to reduce HIV/AIDs, and B. Why does she think most people would not support it? (What can actually work?)
Elizabeth would like for us to go away from the abstinence-only concept, educate
4. A. Although the book primarily discusses HIV/AIDS in Asia, …show more content…
Therefore, everyone hides behind the idea of “poverty and development”, when in fact it is a problem of sex, ”lots of simultaneous sexual partnerships, lots of untreated STIs and lots of uncircumcised men”, (book 134)
5. Chapter 6 presents ideas on abstinence, sex and condoms. Summarize the main points of this chapter. (i.e. What does the author say about these topics and how they affect data and HIV? What is the impact of the government, religion and ideology? …show more content…
To begin with, the approach President George W. Bush took in preventing HIV. “We need to tell our children that abstinence is the only certain way to avoid HIV. It works every time”. The only way that abstinence works, is if children are willing to abstain from all kinds of sex. We all know that is not entirely true. If that was true then we wouldn’t have such a high rate of teen pregnancies, diseases, and etc. In addition, around 72 percent of pledgers had sex before marriage and were less likely to use contraceptives when their hormones got the best of them. When we are developing prevention methods, we need to be realistic. To add emphasis on that, not everyone will wait abstain from sex until marriage, and we cannot force people to do that. What we need to do is have a comprehensive sex education and inform every one of the risks of having unprotected sex. To be quite frank the idea of using a condom isn’t fun. Condom can create awkward sex moments and even reduce sensation for both parties. But we have to look at the pros and condoms. Use of condoms has more pros than cons. For example, it can protect you from unintended pregnancies, infections, and even HIV. Therefore, lets way the scale, embarrassing sex, or deadly infections? I’ll take embarrassing sex for 300 please. Those who are religious are sought to be wicked, when they have sex before marriage. This causes them to not seek for