Word: condomize
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...hasn't kept exact count, but Fai has slept with more than 20 women since he lost his virginity at 16. His flatmates never know who is going to walk out of his bedroom on a Sunday morning. He says he always uses a condom when he has sex - to avoid getting the girl pregnant, not as a precaution against AIDS. "Healthy people don't have to worry about that," he says, breezily...
...secrets to share. One thinks he may be falling in love with another boy at school. One ends up robbing a bookie. One has two goals in life: to disprove the work of a world-famous philosopher and to have sex so hard that he breaks the condom. But their tales are constantly intersecting, overlapping or running parallel. By the end, their three stories, as amazing as it may seem, have fused into one.It's a masterful narrative braiding, and it's almost as interesting as the stories themselves. But nothing really takes the place of a good yarn...
...keep you there. Anyway, you know how Dad likes his television shows. Last month he slipped back into his late-night 'Jerry' routine when they kicked 'Blind Date' off the air. But--thank God--he's found a new one: 'Dawson's Creek.' Jor, you don't carry a condom in your wallet...
...between. You risk your life in every act of sexual intercourse. You go to work past a house where a teenager lives alone tending young siblings without any source of income. At another house, the wife was branded a whore when she asked her husband to use a condom, beaten silly and thrown into the streets. Over there lies a man desperately sick without access to a doctor or clinic or medicine or food or blankets or even a kind word. At work you eat with colleagues, and every third one is already fatally ill. You whisper about a friend...
...Africa finally mobilize the political will to take on AIDS. If they are able to use only their own money, these countries will be forced to write off those who are already infected. The best they can do is try to slow new cases through preventive education and encouraging condom use, maybe reduce transmission from mothers to babies. Hardly enough to save a continent. So figuring out how to save the millions who are infected remains an agonizing challenge...