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Following student demonstrations against the Vietnam War in 1969, administrators banned ROTC from campus. (Harvard students have participated in ROTC through MIT since the early 1970s.) And though the passions of Vietnam have since subsided, the military's policy of discriminating based on sexual orientation has made ROTC a lightning rod for criticism because it conflicts with the University’s non-discrimination policy...
When Elizabeth Pisani writes about AIDS, she wants people to know the unvarnished details. Her data on prevalence is gathered in nightclubs where researchers ask patrons about their sexual habits. She talks to women across Asia who have chosen prostitution because it pays better than factory work. And she studies the impact of specific sexual activities, explaining scientifically why, say, anal sex is so much riskier than vaginal sex. The Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels, and the Business of AIDS is, in other words, unlike most books on HIV policy, which shroud arguments about sex and drugs in abstract, uncontroversial...
...details of sharing needles, gay cruising and the sex trade. Pisani's book lays out the relevant science. It explains, for example, why regular sex with the same five partners is riskier than 10 successive monogamous relationships, and why sharing needles is more dangerous than almost any kind of sexual activity...
...peacekeepers and aid workers from 23 organizations have sexually abused refugee children as young as 6 in Sudan, Haiti and the Ivory Coast, according to the charity Save the Children U.K. A yearlong investigation unearthed hundreds of incidents; many had gone unreported or the predators unpunished. The organization, which had fired several of its own staffers for sexual misconduct, has called for creation of a watchdog group to police such abuses...
...settled on the arty Lower East Side. The fashion magazines of the time had a singular image of his peer group, and it was not a good one: hollow-cheeked and sallow-skinned with the lank look of a hungry junkie. That wasn't McGinley's crowd--healthy, happily sexual, not above living in the extreme fast lane sometimes but otherwise...