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...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 terms. Pisani prefers to hit the controversy head on, writing about AIDS as it affects those who are most likely...
...Wisdom of Whores is Pisani's story of more than a decade spent working in HIV prevention. She starts with her decision in 1994 to give up journalism and study epidemiology - "Sex, drugs and plenty of squeamish politicians. AIDS was the disease for me," she writes - and ends after she quit her job in 2005, following a meeting of epidemiologists in Bangkok that left her doubting the impact of science on real-world AIDS policy. Along the way, Pisani draws on anecdotes from her time chatting with transvestite hookers, rich-kid junkies, epidemiologists and policymakers in Indonesia, where she spent...
...arguments in The Wisdom of Whores are new. But it's rare to see them expressed with such frank simplicity. Pisani is never one to mince words. "In the AIDS business we're all whores," she says. Given how aid groups seek out donors' money, "We're all selling ourselves to the highest bidder." As with the prostitutes, their actions follow a certain logic - and it could be deadly...
...felt, sounded or looked the way they would have expected. Reality was in some ways better, in other ways worse. They say there are things they wish they had known, things they want you to know. Here, then, are three of their stories, accompanied by some of the hard wisdom of loss and luck...
...head, the other usually isn't very far behind. But whether or not you think that rule applies in this case, the whole thing did not leave me wondering whether the Clintons were now eyeing the Naval Observatory, where vice presidents live in Washington. Instead, I wondered about the wisdom of the way they had started down this Veepstakes road...