...and the terrifying.The good is, biologically, that it combines genes and furthers the process of natural selection. We literally wouldn't be who we are today without it.
The bad is that the parasites, a la the Red Queen, use sex to propagate and evolve THEIR species.
The terrifying is that HIV, transmitted sexually, has killed millions and continues to devastate the poor and disenfranchised.
We know sex is required and that almost everyone participates; but in our strange human way we stigmatize it, laugh at it, and in the course of doing these things demonize victims.
People with STIs (sexually transmitted infections) deserve them, we say; if they behaved they wouldn't get such nasty diseases.
The fact is we are all just a parasitic mutation away from getting HIV or another of these diseases and should treat them like any other--prevent them and look for cures, and practice mercy among the sufferering.
The bad is that the parasites, a la the Red Queen, use sex to propagate and evolve THEIR species.
The terrifying is that HIV, transmitted sexually, has killed millions and continues to devastate the poor and disenfranchised.
We know sex is required and that almost everyone participates; but in our strange human way we stigmatize it, laugh at it, and in the course of doing these things demonize victims.
People with STIs (sexually transmitted infections) deserve them, we say; if they behaved they wouldn't get such nasty diseases.
The fact is we are all just a parasitic mutation away from getting HIV or another of these diseases and should treat them like any other--prevent them and look for cures, and practice mercy among the sufferering.
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