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Today’s Thunderer:

No, Chris. Aids is different, by Mary Kenny

In some parts of the Third World there is a repellent superstition — which missionaries in the 19th century previously observed in association with syphilis — that the “cure” for sexually transmitted disease is to have intercourse with a young virgin. Thus, young girls in Africa, and indeed India, too, are being subjected to sex with older men afflicted with HIV. This wicked myth should be stamped on with all the rigour of law and custom: and perhaps Mandela, with his worldwide influence, might allude critically to this deplorable idea at some point. He might perhaps denigrate another practice also seen in Africa: when the widow of a man who dies from Aids is obliged to have intercourse with his surviving brother.

Betcha didn’t know that. I sure didn’t.