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Negrohobia echoes Alice in Wonderland in places (one section is entitled "Down the Rabbitt's Rectum") and Dante's Inferno in others (Bubbles falls through the concentric underwater circles of the Harlem River which is populated with the floating corpses of pimps, numbers runners and crackheads). At times, the novel approaches the off-Kilter horror of those classic with its manic, madcap parade of freakish characters...
...Being on the receiving end of anal intercourse carries the greatest risk, for heterosexuals as well as gays. Blood vessels in tissues lining the anus and rectum are easy to rupture, and that gives HIV a direct passageway to the bloodstream. The majority of sexually transmitted cases (as opposed to those from shared needles or transfusions) probably result from anal intercourse. Vaginal intercourse is less risky; oral sex has the least risk...
...seven photographs in question do have some of pornography's rawness and occasional power to shock. In one picture a man urinates into another man's mouth. In another a man's fist and forearm is seen inserted into a man's rectum. Two images -- a nude boy on a chair and a little girl whose dress is raised in a way that exposes her genitals -- led to charges of illegal use of a minor, though the mothers of the children gave Mapplethorpe permission to take the photographs and the center to display them. "Where would you draw the line...
Sharansky formulated a principle to live by: "Nothing they do can humiliate me. I alone can humiliate myself. Once I had absorbed that idea, nothing -- not searches, not punishments . . . not even several attempts to force-feed me through the rectum during an extended hunger strike -- could deprive me of my self-respect...
...Harvard Medical School and the National Cancer Institute reported that even women who drink moderately may have a 30% to 50% greater chance than nondrinkers of developing breast cancer. Heavy drinking among men and women alike has been linked to cancer of the liver, lung, pancreas, colon and rectum. In October a team led by Dr. Charles Lieber, a leading alcoholism researcher at the Bronx Veterans Administration Medical . Center in New York City, reported that it had isolated a possible link between alcohol and cancer in humans. The culprit appears to be a member of the family of enzymes called...