| Saturday, July 18, 2009 | ||
| Madiba Day Spreads the Love | ||
Nelson Mandela, known respectfully as Madiba, is 91 years young today. And unlike other famous people with the power to move and sway billions of people, the celebration of Madiba's life is all about constructive giving and moving on.  The former leader of South Africa, a country with over 5 million HIV positive people, will celebrate today by inspiring benevolence that is truly becoming of a leader and an icon: people around the world are being asked to give 67 minutes of community service. That is one minute for each year that Madiba fought to free his land. A great deal of that time is being spend working with AIDS orphans, health education programmes and sexual health clinics. And here is the formula that shows the spiritual meaning behind this worldwide campaign (with thanks to Bob Marley): 1 love + 1 heart + 67 minutes = 69. 69 + 1 condom and/or 1 dam => Safer Sex. Just as Madiba would like it. Happy Birthday. And thank you. |
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| Thursday, July 02, 2009 | ||
| Rx: Sex 1/per Day | ||
As it turns out, Abstinence is not just a downer, but it is generally a bad idea. Endless research and teenage pregnancy rates have shown that abstinence-only sex education doesn't work because abstinence fails as a behavioural practice for the general young public.  Now fertility researchers in Australia (Dr Greening of Sydney IVF) have found that the well-accepted practice of partial abstinence during attempts to conceive is also a bad idea. This could mean no more recommendations to have sex one-day-on/one-day-off or to hold off on the sex for a few days before ovulation. According to this new research, sperm is at its fertile best when men have sex every day. Yes, its official: every single day. It is still true that a daily roll in the hay will reduce a guy's semen volume. But, what is more important, it will improve the quality of the semen, by reducing the damage that occurs while the swimmers hang around in anticipation. This is not to say that the guy going through a really slow patch has a natural contraceptive in place, when he finally gets it together, but if he's planning to spread his genes, doctors orders are to keep it fresh. |
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