When we think of HIV, we usually think of the stereotype of the promiscuous gay male in San Francisco. But new research is proving that this is not the case. In fact, the only places where HIV has increased over the last decade in the US, is in the most conservative states, such as Texas and Mississippi.
I think this is not surprising at all. In these states where you have religiously motivated taboos about talking about sex, and where you have mostly abstinence based sex ed curriculum, things like this are going to happen. This one of the things I find most distressing about religion. It's like religious people put up a wall in their brain. Even to the point of risking their own children's health.
When are we going to wake up and realize that not talking about it won't make it go away?
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