Comments | mattcanning: Trojan condom commercial.

mattcanning

Trojan condom commercial.

Dec 02, 2006 16:36

Today on A&E I saw a commercial that said 1 in 4 people with HIV don't tell their partner that they have it because they don't know they do - then the commercial went on to plug Trojan, and showed a man kissing a woman ( Read more... )

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tjernobyl December 3 2006, 06:17:20 UTC

For that matter, why were they white? Most people with HIV are black and African.

mattcanning December 6 2006, 02:33:53 UTC

This is an excellent point.

I look at it as social commentary: it's proof of what we are and are not allowed to say and do here in North America.

bagbride December 5 2006, 01:43:01 UTC

Ha, they should have shown a guy sharing a needle and then going to bed with his girlfriend. That way no one would be offended, except junkies.

halved_smile December 5 2006, 18:37:28 UTC

Who told us that HIV is different from any other dis-ease? We believe all that we are told, or we don't. That's our prerogative ( ... )

mattcanning December 6 2006, 02:45:54 UTC

Hi.

Very interesting.

It's ok for an organization to push their agenda on people - including the church. That's how it should be! But certainly not at the point of a gun, and not at an age where we have no critical thinking skills and can't decipher the junk from the facts.

Discuss.

mattcanning December 6 2006, 21:12:15 UTC

http://www.medhelp.org/forums/HIV/messages/289.html

In 20 years of HIV testing about 6-8,000 people per year in the Seattle-King County public health STD clinic, I think we might have seen 1 or 2 HIV positive results in heterosexual, non-IDU, non-foreign-born men who were not the regular partners of HIV infected women. That's not to say such persons can never get infected, but it's not as common as you apparently assume ( ... )