MHS-2410 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Opata Language, Condom
4 Nov 2016
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South africa"s epidemic of sexual violence was being fueled by a desperate myth: some african men believed that raping a virgin would cure them of hiv. The idea that virgin-rape myths are a significant cause of either child abuse or the spread of hiv is itself a myth, perpetuated by stigmatizing attitudes toward people with hiv, and racist fear of black sexuality. Aids was one of the many legacies of past oppression by whites. Un officials attributed the epidemic to the subjugation of women in south africa. Rape is an assertion of male power not sexuality. Desperate protests against men"s loss of control over women. Subsistence farming became increasingly unsustainable and as manufacturing and mining sectors steadily collapse, many men are being left behind. That is why rapists often target women who seem independent, specially sexually independent single women. The vast majority of hiv transmission occurs in long-term consensual relationships, and not a result of rape.
