Word: stigmas
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Also, I should point out that the statement, “Increased availability of condoms has not led to a substantial increase in their use, as such devices carry the social stigma of a lack of trust,” should refer to consistent usage, not to all condom usage. This is an important point—condom use in fact has increased substantially in many places, but unfortunately this has not translated into consistent usage, which remains quite low, or into lower HIV infection rates in Africa’s population-wide epidemics. EDWARD C. GREEN Cambridge, Mass. April...
...said that he is concerned that the change will place a renewed emphasis on grades as student seek to avoid the stigma of losing out to over a third of their classmates...
...extended the credit line through a new facility that doesn't impose the same sort of rigid conditions that gave the organization such a bad name in the past. That prompted Stephen Timms, financial secretary to Britain's Treasury, to crow: "We have gone beyond the era of stigma." India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said he viewed Mexico as a precedent, and concurred with Timms. "We are very happy that the [loan] conditions are being relaxed," he said...
...terms with her sexual fantasies. It won Best Documentary Short in the 2008 CineKink Film Festival.For Bezreh, creating these films is part of a personal mission to come to terms with the shame she has felt about her fascination with sadomasochism and her greater mission to dispel the stigma associated with kink. Bezreh works as a life coach for people dealing with similar issues. She is also working toward a Master Degree in health communications through a joint program with Emerson and Tufts. Although Bezreh is not alone in experimenting in erotica, other Harvard students and alumni have had different...
...Development Studies has decided since to discontinue the project, Dr. Green has presented in many interviews and newspaper articles the scientific data wherewith to support his controversial conclusions. Increased availability of condoms has not led to a substantial increase in their use, as such devices carry the social stigma of a lack of trust. But, more dangerously, where the use of condoms has accelerated, there lurks the possibility of “risk compensation”—the phenomenon where the peace of mind afforded by a new technological safeguard, such as seatbelts, actually leads to riskier behavior...