Okay, Joseph, What's Your Fucking Solution to the AIDS Crisis?

Pope Benedict XVI says that using condoms is not the answer to the AIDS crisis that's ravaging the world, particularly in Africa, where it's pandemic. My question to the man born Joseph Ratzinger: what's your solution, fuckface?

During his visit to Yaounde, Cameroon as part of his trip to the African continen, Benedict said that abstinence and "a moral and responsible attitude toward sex would help fight the disease." Okay, Joe, define "moral and responsible". Does that include, say, living a celibate life? Which, by the way, not many of the billions of the Roman Catholics you allegedly lord over do, by the way. does it include those priests teaching young altar boys about the "birds and the bees"?

One thing he's not advocating is the use of the Trojans or the Durexes. Oh, no. They exacerbate the problem, make people want to have sex even more.

This guy is so removed from reality it's fucking ridiculous. If condoms aren't the answer- and admittedly, they're not 100% effective (about 85 to 95 %, but I'll take that over nothing)- then why not advocate something like, say, masturbation. That's 100% effective, as you're only addressing the general or soaking in Palmolive (yes, Madge the manicurist had another way of soaking in her Palmolive). Of course, you can have phone or internet sex. 100% effective against the transmission of the HIV/AIDS virus. But does he do that? No, he says keep the pants on until you get married. Sure, he realizes that not many of us are going to heed that advice, so why not promote condom use?

Then again, this guy is 83 years old- about the same age John Paul was when he kicked the bucket- an ex-member of thr Hitler Youth, and no doubt, in the eyes of many, too goddamned old-fashioned. Yeah, my kind of guy.

Pope Benedict XVI. A friend of prudent sex education. Just like his late predecessor, Pope John Paul II.

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