Stale Irony, Barebacking Royalty
Speaking of aggressive stupidity, how did I miss this story? I guess I tuned out the DC Madam scandals because grown men calling hookers doesn’t even begin to jiggle my outrageometer. Thus did I miss the stunning irony of the so-called “AIDS czar” resigning in disgrace for preaching abstinence while practicing commercial adultery. Thanks to Violet Blue for the aging news, with her accompanying speculation:
At the same time, Randall Tobias, President Bush’s abstinence-promoting, condom-discouraging “AIDS Czar” and deputy secretary of state, resigned after admitting he was a customer of the famed “DC Madam” when the escort service was about to surrender its records.
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Tobias was an outcall John – who spent the last several years enacting global and domestic policies about abstinence and anti-condom propaganda to people whose lives depend on accurate information. Do you think he used condoms, or did he shop at Bareback and Beyond? I’m thinking he did, especially considering his statements in 2004. As Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report writes:
“Tobias … said that promoting abstinence and monogamy are ‘far more effective’ than distributing condoms for preventing the spread of HIV,” according to Agence France-Presse. ‘Statistics show that condoms really have not been very effective,’ Tobias said, adding, ‘It’s been the principal prevention device for the last 20 years, and I think one needs only to look at what’s happening with the infection rates in the world to recognize that has not been working.'”
Never was there a finer petard or a better hoist.
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Oh that is too perfect.Thanks for the laugh on an otherwise bleak day
You know, there really is nothing more obnoxious than rank hypocrisy.
Ok, there is one thing more obnoxious. Kinky people who claim that the Republicans are somehow the protectors of our freedoms. Like some sort of brainwashed psuedo-Libertarians, they embrace people who fuck us over during the day and fuck us over at night.
Give me a hedonistic liberal who stays the hell out of my private decisions any day of the week.
Let’s not get started on partisan politics, folks. If you want to start praising or bashing particular political parties, please do it somewhere else.
I can’t avoid blogging topics that touch on both sex and politics. But you’ll rarely find me naming a particular party for praise or condemnation, largely because my particular brand of anarchy makes me despise them all to varying degrees. I’ve discussed my reasons in detail elsewhere, but I am determined that Erosblog shall not become yet another forum for partisan political bickering. And a comment like the one above (slamming two political parties, however much they may deserve it) invites and breeds endless response.
No. Just no.
At a time and in a country where their parents are facing imminent foreclosure on their homes, and their boyfriends are about to face bullets in Iraq without adequate armoring, teens are perhaps turning to sex to escape an ever-increasing depressing reality. I understand un-wed teen pregnancies are up… So much for the effectiveness of the abstinence program! Jamie Lynn Spears still managed to get pregnant, and seemed surprised at how it could have happened! A PROPERLY used condom all but guarantees contraception