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“Momma” doesn’t slay the myth monster
Following our articles on the potential for Agony Aunts to address HIV, yesterday The Star’s ‘Momma’ tackled the HIV aspect of a correspondents unprotected sex story. And while JournAIDS is happy to see Momma using her power as a source of HIV information, there is still a fly in the ointment, or rather the ‘oil’.
A young girl writes to Momma this week, saying that her boyfriend has told her that there is no risk of her falling pregnant if they have unprotected sex because the “oil” in condoms has damaged his kidneys.
However his girlfriend seems to have a sneaking suspicion that her boyfriend’s tale is of the tall variety because she writes to Momma to ask if there is a possibility that she could actually fall pregnant.
Agony Aunts: Love triangles are also HIV’s ‘Bermuda’ triangles
While agony-aunts have traditionally offered us an objective, sympathetic and supportive shoulder to cry on, they should embrace and use their platforms to spread the word on HIV prevention.
Despite blatant evidence that correspondents are engaging in unprotected sex with more than one partner at a time (termed multiple or concurrent partnerships or MCP), very few agony aunts address the risk of exposure to HIV lurking in the trysts of their correspondents.
Thankfully Move!’s agony-aunt Sis Anne is breaking the mould.
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