05-01-2007, 08:46 AM
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still eats dirt
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Tampa, FL
Posts: 3,031
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Originally Posted by Ibram
I'm sorta with Elspode. I wouldn't care at all who they slept with...
...except that they want to tell ME who to sleep with.
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Oh, karma, how you make my world so entertaining!
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PBS: But with regard to prostitutes and sex workers in developing countries, is it necessary to work with them? Do you try to get them to change behavior? And if they don't, then what?
TOBIAS: First of all, very recently I was in Haiti in a program where we are working with prostitutes, teaching them skills that will give them the economic leverage to get out of prostituting. The particular program that I visited, young women were being taught the skills of being beauticians, of doing cosmetic work and hair work and that kind of thing. Now, none of these young women were saying, "I don't want to work with this non-governmental organization because they have a policy opposing prostitution." Quite the contrary. These young women were people who wanted to get out of prostitution. So there's nothing about our policy of requiring organizations to oppose prostitution and sex trafficking that in any way gets in our way of working with people who have been traced, or people who are in prostitution, trying to get them out of it. …
PBS: But is there a moral quotient, a moral factor in your prevention work?
TOBIAS: There's a certain moral aspect to it, but the principal focus of what we're doing here is to carry out the prevention program that is at the heart of this program, which is abstinence, be faithful, and the correct and consistent use of condoms, driven by the fact that from a public health perspective, those are the components that really make the most sense.
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