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Monday, December 3, 2007
Celibacy Blues
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
This past Saturday, December 1, was World Aids Day. This day is important because it raises awareness and educates the world. According to the CDC: In 2007, there are over 33 million people living with AIDS, 2.5 million of that number are children under the age of 15. 2.5 million people were infected with this disease just this year, and over 2 million have already died from AIDS in 2007.
This means that AIDS is still very much an epidemic and pretending it doesn’t exist is not only deadly, it’s stupid. I was a freshman in college the day Magic Johnson announced he was HIV positive. We all got a wake-up call that day: if you chose to have sex, you were taking a risk. Are (we) single people still asking their sexual partners if they have been tested? How do you think the AIDS epidemic changed the landscape of the dating scene?
I know a lot of single people that choose to abstain/become celibate, solely because of the health risks involved. It’s not always easy to do it and sometimes it can drive you bonkers. How do you cope with your celibacy?
This entry was written to the sounds of Jill Scott’s Celibacy Blues
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