Thirty years ago on Sunday, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published the first-ever report on the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), although the disease was not officially named until the following year. The AIDS epidemic in the US has shifted from primarily affecting gay men in the 1980s to disproportionately affecting minority women in the 1990s and 2000s. Read more at www.feminist.org |
If you're a woman in a conservative Muslim country, you had better bleed on your wedding night. If you don't, your husband or his family will know you aren't a virgin. For that, you could be beaten or killed. |
Some day, this barbaric and hypocritical tradition will end. Until then, the best we can do is fool it. You want blood on your wedding night? We'll give you blood. Fake blood. |
 The Artificial Virginity Hymen kit, distributed by the Chinese company Gigimo, costs about $30. It is intended to help newly married women fool their husbands into believing they are virgins—culturally important in a conservative Middle East where sex before marriage is considered by many to be illicit. The product leaks a blood-like substance when inserted and broken. Gigimo advertises shipping to every Arab country.
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It is mainly made of natural albumin, medical use inflation element and water-soluble base medicinal preparation which have no side effect. Insert this artificial hymen into your vagina carefully. It will expand a little and make you feel tight. When your lover penetrate, it will ooze out a liquid that look like blood not too much but just the right amount. Add in a few moans and groan, you will pass through undetectable. |
Sheik Sayed Askar, a member of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood who is on the parliamentary committee on religious affairs, said the kit will make it easier for Egyptian women to give in to temptation. He demanded the government take responsibility for fighting the product. ... Prominent Egyptian religious scholar Abdel Moati Bayoumi said anyone who imports the artificial hymen should be punished. "This product encourages illicit sexual relations. Islamic culture forbids these relations except within the confines of marriage," Bayoumi said. ... "If this thing enters Egypt, the country is going to go to waste. God protect us," commented a reader on the Web site of Egyptian newspaper Al-Youm Al-Sabie. |
Pause for a moment to consider what these men are asking God to protect them from: a cheap, mass-produced insert that releases fake blood. It's the technical equivalent of a Halloween gag. But to them, this is no gag. It's an offense against God. |
Women protesters made to undergo 'virginity checks': Egyptian general
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A senior military general of Egypt has admitted that "virginity checks" were carried out on women arrested during a demonstration. It is the first such admission after previous denials by military authorities, CNN.com reported.
The allegations arose in an Amnesty International report, published week
s after the March 9 protest.
It was claimed women demonstrators were beaten, given electric shocks, strip-searched, threatened with prostitution charges and forced to submit to virginity checks. |
interesting URL: www.naavi.org
| The average rate at which mothers die during childbirth has dropped globally by approximately 40 percent since 1980 |
| Afghanistan ranked highest |
| with 1,575 maternal deaths for every 100,000 live births. Italy ranked lowest at an average of only 4 deaths, the United States' rate was 17, lagging behind other Western nations such as Canada's, which was 7 deaths for every 100,000 live births. The study, which analyzed the Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR) in 181 countries, stated the global average in 2008 was 251 maternal deaths for every 100,000 live birthsRead more at www.feminist.org |
what an awful country.... | An 18-year-old Afghan woman was murdered in Kandahar, Afghanistan, as she left work Tuesday. The woman, whose first name was Hossai, worked at Development Alternatives, Inc., a United States-based development consulting company. Though the Taliban have not taken responsibility for her death, the Associated Press reports that Taliban extremists particularly target women who work for foreign organizations or attend school in Kandahar.Read more at www.feminist.org |
| A Yemeni child bride died earlier this month from severe internal bleeding just three days after being married to a man at least twice her age. Thirteen-year-old Elham Assi died on April 2nd after allegedly being tied down and raped by her husband |
| Child marriage is a common practice in Yemen, where an estimated 50 percent of young women are married before age 18. Yemen is the poorest country in the Arabian Peninsula, and child marriage is often arranged so the bride's family can receive a dowry payment.Read more at www.feminist.org |
In a country long plagued by violence, corruption, and an authoritarian government, Zimbabwe’s President Mugabe is known as one of the worst anti-gay autocrats in Africa. Mugabe has repeatedly located blame for the country’s ills on lesbians and gay men, cultivating widespread bigotry and violence. His virulent homophobia has given rise to the rape of lesbian and gay male Zimbabweans, under the guise of “correcting” them into heterosexuality. |
| hrough brutality and sexual assault, commonly using rape to intimidate and control anyone he deems to be undesirable or uncooperative. In a homophobic worldview such as Mugabe’s, it follows that lesbians and gay men would b |
| Mugabe has created an atmosphere of terror through brutality and sexual assault, commonly using rape to intimidate and control anyone he deems to be undesirable or uncooperative. In a homophobic worldview such as Mugabe’s, it follows that lesbians and gay men would be seen as less than desirable and in need of a cure.Read more at newsjunkiepost.com |
| 86 years after his death Franz Kafka's writings are |
| the subject of a bewildering situation, a long-running tug of war between a private family in Israel and state archivists in Israel and Germany. It centres on the contents of several safe deposit boxes in Tel Aviv and Switzerland. |
| The legal twists and turns of the case over four decades are themselves perhaps worthy of a Kafka novel. But just like his novel, The Castle, this legal saga might also produce an unsatisfactory end. Lawyers and scholars alike acknowledge the chances of finding any unknown manuscripts in the safe deposit boxes are slim indeedRead more at www.abc.net.au |
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30 Year Anniversary of First AIDS Report
