In her research, epidemiologist Elizabeth Pisani discovered that in some countries, an increase in premarital sex amongst girls resulted in a decrease in men exposed to HIV. In this video she explains why.
The Article: Egypt’s Sexual Counterrevolution by Khaled Diab in Salon.
The Text: Half a world away from the Republican presidential primaries where candidates vie to outlaw birth control and promote abstinence, ban pornography and condemn the “sin” of homosexuality, Egypt’s first post-revolution parliamentary election was, thanks to the Islamists, dominated by similar issues.
As the first anniversary of the revolution approaches this week, Egypt is facing a spate of urgent political, social and economic issues, such as mass youth unemployment, a tanking economy and a cabal of die-hard generals who just refuse to call it quits. But you wouldn’t know it from listening to the discourse of Islamists, particularly the hard-line Salafist Nour party, which has focused attention on issues of “morality,” including talk of banning booze, prohibiting or restricting bikinis and censoring “sex scenes” in Egypt’s vibrant film industry.
Although women from all walks of life have been at the forefront of the popular uprising and are treated as relative equals by the revolutionary youth movement that has orchestrated the revolution, the burden of this moralizing, as is often the case, has fallen on the shoulders of women. This has led Egypt’s secular, liberal women and feminists to look to the immediate future with a mixture of apprehension and worry.
Yes, the use of social media have played big roles in grassroots protests around the world, but is there a relation between social disparities and the use of social media? Phil Rockstroh, poet, lyricist and philosopher, gives his take.
Criticizing Obama is the new black. But before you jump on him for supporting Operation Odyssey Dawn in Libya, it would behoove of you to look at what’s come before and how it compares.
