In her new article in The Times of London, epidemiologist Elizabeth Pisani, an AIDS researcher for more than 10 years, says she believes political correctness has impeded the eradication of HIV and AIDS in Africa. Specifically, that the many nations and medical groups working to prevent the spread of the disease are unwilling to express this truth: "HIV is largely a sexually transmitted infection, so there must be something different about sex in Africa."

To help make her point, Pisani notes that though the popular assumption holds that poverty and a lack of education are the main reasons AIDS has spread like wildfire throughout sub-Saharan Africa, other impoverished nations are not nearly as plagued by the illness:

The truth is that a society in which many people have two or three partners on the go at any one time will produce a bigger epidemic than a society where people may have 10 partners in five years, but only one at a time. And it’s a fact that in parts of Africa, it’s more common for both men and women to have two or three simultaneous relationships than to have serial partners. Do people behave in this way because they are poor and ignorant? Not in Bangladesh, or Bolivia, or dozens of other countries where incomes and literacy are low. Indeed, in Africa, the incidence of HIV infection is highest in the richest households and the richest countries.

Pisani says these issues go unspoken because many people consider them racist. But without acknowledging them, she stresses, finding a way to combat the spread of HIV becomes even more nebulous than it already is.

Her grim solution? "Pray for better leaders."

Lil Wayne gets around in black celebrity (I use this word loosely, of course) circles, having been intimately linked with Trina, Nivea, Karrinne Steffans, and Lauren London, to name a few. In Ozone Magazine's Sex Issue, he reveals why he's so charming with the ladies.

To paraphrase: He will never answer the phone during sex, but mainly because his body is very sensitive, and he will likely be busy screaming. On the other hand, screaming during sex is for jumpoffs. When he's making love he just breathes in the girl's ear. Also, he is tiny everywhere but in his genital region, and that requires him to avoid sex of the animalistic variety. His mother is well aware of this, because, one time, she had to take him to the hospital to have his hernia treated.

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Here's the good thing about a trend in sex tourism — it doesn't entail rich white men traveling to third world countries to prey on underaged girls and boys. It does entail rich white women traveling to places like Kenya to live out their Mandingo fantasies with 20-something men who will only have sex with them in exchange for new sneakers and free meals. In a place like Kenya, where the AIDS rate is 6.9 percent, it's as dangerous as it is gross, particularly when a sex tourism expert says that many female sex tourists consider condoms too "business-like" for their free-wheeling vacation fantasies.

Locals estimate that 1 in 5 single female visitors to the country's pristine beaches are looking for sex. The vacationing ladies drop a lot of cash while they're in town, and while sex might be the attraction shady, colonial-minded travel companies hint at, it's not the sort of thing the Kenya tourism board had in mind. [MSNBC]
Thanks for the tip, K.A.

There are so many things wrong with Karrine "Superhead" Steffans' appearance on Jamie Foxx's Sirius radio show, including, but not limited to, an Oscar-winning actor acting like a damn fool, poor "serious journalist" Shaun Robinson being subjected to a low-brow, sexually explicit conversation she was obviously not comfortable with, Superhead proving herself to be an ignorant embarrassment to womankind (maybe humankind?), and her on-air altercation with Tigger, whom she claims is gay.

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However unorthodox it seems, I often feel bad for Karrine Steffans. She obviously thought for many years that sex was the only thing she had to offer in the world, and thus allowed herself to be used and thrown away like a piece of trash over and over again. That's got to do something to your psyche. Case in point — what made her feel like she had to continue having excruciatingly painful sex with Mike Tyson for hours (if what she wrote is to be believed, of course)? Also, ewww. From the The Vixen Diaries:

Mike Tyson, she writes, "loves the same way he fights: hard and rough. His kisses are like uppercuts, and his lovemaking is like a title match. And as he proved against Evander Holyfield, Mike Tyson is a biter. His passion manifested through pain as … I endured the extreme force of his 200-pound frame colliding into mine, he kissed, sucked and bit me overzealously. I was in excruciating pain as we continued in this manner for several hours. At the end, I was covered in bruises and bite marks and vowed to never have sex with him again."

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Naomi Campbell will soon be sexing it up on a theater near you, unless Catherine Breillat, a French filmmaker and novelist known for her frank depictions of sex and violence, switches up her style on a script for a new movie she's making starring the supermodel. Forget the sex, I'm interested to see the Naomi Campbell version of "frank violence." Will there be a death-by-cell-phone scene?

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• Professor Ludacris doesn't really have a nice ring to it. [BV]

• Oh, virginity vows. They're so easy to maintain until you start dating Justin Timberlake. And then it's all downhill from there.[SP]

• Chris Brown, next time just say, "No comment." You'll sound more mysterious and less inarticulate. [Bossip]

• Is a non-feminist the same as a racist? And should we be taking feminism (or racism) lessons from a Playboy executive? [Racialicious]

• Totally off topic, but it got me through the day. [SH]

A recent study nationwide study offers some interesting results on sexual activity among different races. Either blacks are having a lot more sex, non-blacks lied on the survey, or our high percentages are due to black male respondents padding their numbers just a tad. However you look at it, we came out on top. No pun intended.

The proportion of adults who first had sex before age 15 was highest for non-Hispanic blacks (28 percent) compared to 14 percent for both Mexican-Americans and non-Hispanic whites.

Six percent of blacks abstained from sex until age 21 or older, fewer than Mexican-Americans (17 percent) or non-Hispanic whites (15 percent).

Black men and women were more likely to report having 15 or more partners in a lifetime (46 percent and 13 percent, respectively) than other racial or ethnic groups.

This does nothing to combat those centuries old hypersexuality stereotypes.

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The man who created "Wild Wild West" and "Gettin' Jiggy Wit It" is also a dynamo in bed. Something about a black man in spurs and a cowboy hat just screams sex doesn't it? Seriously, when a couple talks about their fabulous sex life as much as Jada and Will do, you've got to wonder what they're trying to prove.

The key to his nine-and-a-half-year marriage to Jada Pinkett Smith? 'Really, really good sex,' says Will, 38. 'I'm really good at it.'

He isn't worried about losing his appeal, either. 'Not at all,' he scoffs. 'I'm going to be so sexy when I'm older. You have no idea. I can tell you're moved by me right now. But see me in five years and it'll be hard for you even to talk to me.'

In case he sounds arrogant, remember all this is said with a huge smile. Will admits that he's always been shy around women. He's only had five serious girlfriends in his life, including Jada, 35, and his ex-wife Sheree, 39.

He pretends like he's joking, but you know that's one of those, "I'm smiling to cover up the fact that I'm really serious, and I hope all the blogs pick this up." You got your wish, Will.

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