I am sick and disgusted with almost all the news from Africa, especially places like South Africa. Stories about the cultural abuse of Women, including "female circumcision" and the practice of "vaginal cutting", (cutting vaginal area nerves then sewing the vagina shut to ensure virginity at marriage) Child soldiers, "conflict diamonds", the resurgence of slavery, the horrible things in Sudan... This is a culture where many men believe they can protect themselves from AIDS by raping small children, that there is some mystical protectiom imbued from this sick vile act. So why should we be surprised at this news?

Here are some other "sex news" posts from posts here in Pixies

" in Marie Claire magazine... Feb issue, they feature an article about men in certain regions of South Africa raping children as young as a 2 month old baby!!! The article said that child rape over in South Africa is so common that no one even does anything about it anymore."

Another...

"Many rapes go unreported in DR Congo
A UN human rights expert has said she is shocked at the scale and brutality of sexual violence in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
Yakin Erturk said the situation in South Kivu province was the worst she had seen in four years as special UN investigator on violence against women. She said women had been tortured, forced to eat human flesh and men had been forced to rape relatives.
She said rebels, soldiers and police were responsible.

I know there are many millions of good decent men in Africa, but these are the sign of a sick culture out of control, with toal self destruction not far away.

(Not that the USA has THAT much to brag about, we have our own issues, don't we?)

WW

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