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Continued from page 33 – When will Defilement of Young
Children End
villages and at home, we arrive at a very conservative
figure of 50,000 girls defiled every year. It is a monstrous
figure, not many towns in Uganda have a bigger
population, and it means that almost every 10 minutes,
day and night and month by month, a girl is sexually
molested.
Is it possible to imagine a moral problem of greater
magnitude It ranks even above child sacrifice or rather;
it is child sacrifice destroying tens of thousands of young
lives every year.
That Saturday Vision front page deprived me of sleep and
I was surprised and dismayed that nobody else seemed to
bother, even though both the New Vision and The Daily
Monitor brought an editorial on the subject. But I saw no
reaction from either the Ministry of Ethics and Integrity
nor can I remember anything from any of the churches.
What kind of ‘African Values’ are hiding behind this
complete lack of respect for the integrity of children and
women I know that defilement carries a maximum
penalty of death and that defilement cases count for a
substantial part of the backlog in the courts. But I also
know that the majority of such cases are ‘settled out of
court’, frequently with a considerable financial advantage
for the girl’s parents, or maybe I should say the father.
It reflects an attitude whereby girls and women are
supposed to be at a man’s disposal for ‘usage’, a
primitive and bestial position unworthy of a nation that
proclaims itself on top of the world as far as morals are
concerned. It goes well with the primitive notion that
women are to be had as possessions along with others
like cattle and not to be at par with a man as far as human
worth is concerned. This can hardly represent moral
concepts to be protected and upheld but that is exactly
what happens if nothing substantial is done to keep
people awake and aware that this problem exists and that
it seems to have deep roots.
Weeding out this deep-rooted moral monstrosity cannot
be done by articles in the press, very few read them,
during talk shows on FM-radios, which would reach
a bigger audience, or sermons in the churches
whenever extra outrageous cases become public. It is
something that has to be run as a continuous exercise
in schools and all kinds of congregations, religious
as well as secular, and it will take time.
But it cannot be left undone. No other moral issue is more
important because it is a symptom of an incredible and
extremely dangerous lack of respect for human life.
Stolen or destroyed property can be replaced, what con-
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consenting adults do in private, is exactly that, private.
But a young life that has been destroyed by a defiler can
never be fully restored; the crime is in the same class as
murder. So when will it end
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Sex Diseases Tripled in Men
40 or Older Taking Viagra,
Cialis, Study Says
By Nicole Ostrow
July 6, 2010
Men taking drugs for sexual potency showed almost
triple the rate of sexually transmitted diseases compared
with those not taking the medications, a Harvard
University study found.
The results, from an analysis of the health insurance
claims of men aged 40 and older, may have more to do
with the nature of the men using the impotence drugs
than with the medicines leading them to have riskier sex,
the research report said. The study, looking at men taking
Pfizer’s Inc. Viagra and Eli Lilly & Co.’s Cialis, was
published today in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
The higher rate of infections was seen in the year before
and after the men started taking the prescription
medicines, according to the analysis. That suggests that
users of drugs to treat erectile dysfunction, which also
include Bayer AG’s Levitra, may be more likely to
engage in unsafe sex than nonusers, lead study author
Anupam Jena said.
“Younger people have more sex partners than older
folks,” said Jena, a medical resident in internal medicine
at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical
School in Boston, in a June 29 telephone interview. “But
per sexual encounter, the actual safeness of the sex is
probably lower among older folks in the sense that they
don’t use condoms,” he said.
About 19 million new sexually spread infections occur
each year in the U.S., almost half of them among people
ages 15 to 24 years old, according to the U.S. Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention.
HIV in Middle-Aged
Still, people aged 40 to 49 accounted for the largest
proportion of newly diagnosed HIV/AIDS cases, 27
percent, in 2007, according to the CDC. Those 50 to 59
accounted for 13 percent, while those over the age of 60
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