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arguing | PKIDs Blog
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Parents of Kids with Infectious Diseases. What has happened to civilized discourse? Back in the day, most humans were capable of having a disagreement without it devolving into verbal fisticuffs. Nowadays, if you’ve spent even a bit of time online, you’ve noticed that there are no more disagreements. There’s cutthroat carnage, violent eviscerations, and thoughtless thuggery, but no polite attempts to agree to disagree. That’s right. Alliterations aside, it’s kinda wild out here. I am far from perfect and...
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To Vaccinate Or Not: One Family’s Journey | PKIDs Blog
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Parents of Kids with Infectious Diseases. To Vaccinate Or Not: One Family’s Journey. When I had my first child over a decade ago, the idea of not vaccinating was one I was wholly unfamiliar with. I followed all of the suggestions of the doctor in regards to care for my baby and didn’t question whether the guidelines I followed were best practice or not. When my toddler had a reaction after her one-year shots, all of that came screeching to a halt. Information about the shady dealings of Wakefield about t...
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Taxing times for Bonn’s street hookers | HIV / AIDS, science, sex, drugs
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The Wisdom of Whores. Of sex and science. Elizabeth Pisani's blog about HIV and other sundry things. Taxing times for Bonn’s street hookers. Selling sex is an odd profession, full of fiercely independent mavericks who are happy with a very flexible life outside the mainstream, while equally happy to moan about marginalisation. And there’s a fair bit of moaning going on in Bonn at the moment, after the local government installed “pay and display” tax machines for people who sell sex. Be Sociable, Share!
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I will never use a condom | HIV / AIDS, science, sex, drugs
http://www.wisdomofwhores.com/2012/08/11/i-will-never-use-a-condom
The Wisdom of Whores. Of sex and science. Elizabeth Pisani's blog about HIV and other sundry things. I will never use a condom. I learned this today from a subscriber to the Asian gay website Fridae, who was irritated by my tone in an post-midnight interview. A fabulous Singaporean poet. I am more than willing to accept that being snarky about other people’s sex lives is an irritant. But I’m not sure how it leads to this:. I’ve never had to fumble lubily with a condom packet, huh? 1) I never use condoms.
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HIV prevention, Indonesian style: stay away from blondes | HIV / AIDS, science, sex, drugs
http://www.wisdomofwhores.com/2012/01/05/hiv-prevention-indonesian-style-stay-away-from-blondes
The Wisdom of Whores. Of sex and science. Elizabeth Pisani's blog about HIV and other sundry things. HIV prevention, Indonesian style: stay away from blondes. This post appeared over at Elizabeth Pisani’s new blog, “Portrait Indonesia”. 8220;Wisdom of Whores” is still on hiatus as she travels Indonesia in preparation for her new book. But we thought that WOW readers might appreciate this particular post. If you’ve not done so already, please do go over to Portrait Indonesia. You can’t avoid it by:. The W...
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What’s wrong with Indonesian penises? | HIV / AIDS, science, sex, drugs
http://www.wisdomofwhores.com/2012/03/05/whats-wrong-with-indonesian-penises
The Wisdom of Whores. Of sex and science. Elizabeth Pisani's blog about HIV and other sundry things. What’s wrong with Indonesian penises? A statue outside a health centre in Enarotali, in Indonesian Papua. Note: I’m still on sabbatical. But even on sabbatical, one sometimes thinks about sex… For reflections on democracy, corruption and other dirty subjects, see my other blog. From which this is a cross-post.]. Why the obsession with sex organs, and why especially in Papua? Do people get sick in prison?
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Responsible porn hits the Financial Times | HIV / AIDS, science, sex, drugs
http://www.wisdomofwhores.com/2011/09/08/responsible-porn-hits-the-financial-times
The Wisdom of Whores. Of sex and science. Elizabeth Pisani's blog about HIV and other sundry things. Responsible porn hits the Financial Times. It’s not that often that I sit reading the FT on a Tube full of morning communters. Even less often that the Pink Paper (no, boys, not THAT Pink Paper) carries full page ads from the Purveyors of Porn. The ad is pimping a new internet domain ending: .xxx (Slogan: Coming, now! Perhaps that purveyors of porn have more to invest than the rest of us? This post was pu...
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Parents of Kids with Infectious Diseases. Gambling With Risk Is Not Worth It. I can’t think of a vaccine-preventable disease that kills or permanently damages 100 percent of those infected. It’s a safe bet that if there were such a disease, we’d all be vaccinated against it. We’d all. To be vaccinated against it. The diseases we can prevent vary in how they affect us. Some, such as measles. So not every person will be killed or permanently damaged. No one is more precious to me than my girls and every pa...
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vaccines | PKIDs Blog
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Parents of Kids with Infectious Diseases. My older daughter started preschool when she was three. That autumn, our lives changed our healthy little family became a sick, exhausted mess. Every three to four weeks for the next several years, at least one of us would be felled by some illness. I remember commenting on it to the preschool director. She laughed and explained that it happened to every teacher and family new to preschool or daycare. We had to up our hand cleaning game, big time. And here’s the ...
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Elizabeth Pisani’s next project – “Indonesia Etc. – Exploring the Improbable Nation” | HIV / AIDS, science, sex, drugs
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The Wisdom of Whores. Of sex and science. Elizabeth Pisani's blog about HIV and other sundry things. Elizabeth Pisani’s next project – “Indonesia Etc. – Exploring the Improbable Nation”. In late 2011, epidemiologist, writer and adventurer Elizabeth Pisani granted herself a sabbatical from the day job. And set off to rediscover Indonesia, a country she has wandered, loved and been baffled by for decades. The new book that will emerge in June 2014 will be called. Much is still up for discussion or re-discu...
