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...market for child prostitutes has always been strong, especially in Asia. In India children command a price three times that of older women, in part because of a common belief that sex with a virgin or a child cures venereal disease. "Having sex with children provides a greater sexual thrill to many men," explains I.S. Gilada, secretary-general of the Bombay-based Indian Health Organization. "They find it more titillating, and it gives them an added sense of power." To feed the sex market, tens of thousands of girls as young as 12 are recruited in Bombay and other cities...
...LABEL: VIRGIN...
...Respect," developed by Project Respect in Golf, Illinois, is one of the most widely used, having been adopted by a couple of thousand schools nationwide. Class activities include listing ways humans are different from animals, making bumper stickers that read CONTROL YOUR URGIN'/ BE A VIRGIN, and answering multiple-choice test questions about what kinds of situations put pressure on teens to have sex. The teacher's manual features a section on sexual messages in the media, a list of suggested alternatives to sex when on dates (bicycling, dinner parties, playing Monopoly) and a chapter on "secondary virginity" -- the decision...
...white, heterosexual, female virgin who never used intravenous drugs and was infected during dental treatment, Kimberly Bergalis was all but universally termed an "innocent" victim of AIDS. To gay men with AIDS, however, this locution was profoundly upsetting: it implied that they were "guilty" and deserved their doom. Many felt that the Bergalis family let itself be used by hatemongers and that Kimberly's plea for universal testing of health-care workers would wrongly shift emphasis to safeguarding the "innocent" mainstream instead of finding a cure...
...Zenica, and now we have nothing," Mikerevic says, seated in his family's small two-room apartment. It once belonged to Muslims, but Mikerevic does not want to know what happened to them. In the narrow living room filled by a sofa and a crib, an icon of the Virgin Mary now presides, next to a photo of an uncle who is with the military but hasn't been heard from in a year. Mikerevic rests his rifle in the crib next to the doll his wife found on the street...