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How much prostitute sex does a woman who is not a prostitute have to displace, to effectively lower a nation?s HIV transmission rate?

By Ann Bartow

That’s a question some economists are vigorously debating. Yes, high HIV transmission rates are apparently the fault of women who are not putting out enough, and therefore driving men to disease ridden prostitutes. Feel free to unpack that, and all of the other embedded sexist and otherwise appalling assumptions upon which this debate is premised, if you have the stomach for it. And of course some of the comments that follow are pretty horrible, as one might expect.

–Ann Bartow

Full post as published by Feminist Law Professors on June 21, 2008 (boomark / email).