{"id":100,"date":"2009-04-09T10:45:47","date_gmt":"2009-04-09T09:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/?p=100"},"modified":"2009-04-09T11:29:38","modified_gmt":"2009-04-09T10:29:38","slug":"the-vagina-is-full-of-aids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/2009\/04\/09\/the-vagina-is-full-of-aids\/","title":{"rendered":"The Vagina is Full of AIDS!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just been pointed in the direction of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iaZBSZ0xbfk\">this YouTube gem<\/a>, which ostensibly demonstrates why condoms don&#8217;t offer protection against Aids.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a little experiment involving a glass, a tea-strainer, and some out-of-date soya milk.\u00a0 The rest you can work out for yourselves.\u00a0 It has to be a piss-take, doesn&#8217;t it?\u00a0 (Actually, I&#8217;m not so\u00a0sure.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve watched a couple of the poster&#8217;s other videos&#8230;\u00a0 I think he means it.\u00a0 Have a look at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cMwuRVY_qaQ&amp;feature=related\">his film on why homosexuality is wrong<\/a>: heterosexual sex within marriage gives you children, while homosexual sex gives you &#8211; yep &#8211; AIDS!)<\/p>\n<p>Anyway: as is the way with these things, the OP has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sZPS-kF__qw&amp;feature=response_watch\">generated a response<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0It&#8217;s puerile, of course&#8230; but funny all the same.\u00a0 And it&#8217;s much more intelligent than the OP.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: Naaaah.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve changed my mind.\u00a0 The OP must be a spoof &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NEJsKmbV6BU\">have a look at this<\/a>, specifically from about 2:20.<!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just been pointed in the direction of this YouTube gem, which ostensibly demonstrates why condoms don&#8217;t offer protection against Aids.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a little experiment involving a glass, a tea-strainer, and some out-of-date soya milk.\u00a0 The rest you can work out for yourselves.\u00a0 It has to be a piss-take, doesn&#8217;t it?\u00a0 (Actually, I&#8217;m not so\u00a0sure.\u00a0 [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/2009\/04\/09\/the-vagina-is-full-of-aids\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[963,407],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-curios","category-wtf"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Vagina is Full of AIDS! 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