
Brush with greatness …
Most of the news we get force-fed here in America tends to be focused on European and North American stories. There’s all kinds of stuff going on in the rest of the world, but let’s face it … do you really care what’s going on in Uzbekistan?
Okay, there probably isn’t anything going on in Uzbekistan … but my point is that we also miss some of the good news that comes out of other parts of the world.
For example, South Africa continued its evolution as a country with another historic first. This weekend, Johannesburg hosted the “first sex fair ever held in a country founded by conservative Christians and still home to many sexual taboos.”
With around 12 percent of its population estimated to have HIV, I’m going to suggest there aren’t nearly as many sexual taboos as the conservative Christians would like to think there are.
Still, progress is progress, and the fair went off with out a hitch … which is a lot more than most of us can say about our sex lives.
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