Submitted by USM (not verified) on May 27, 2009 - 14:49.
I agree with your advice. But I can't resist being rankled by the business about health information sources being simplistic and things being more complicated "that we've been led to believe." I started out working in the AIDS field back in 84 and was involved in creating and publicizing safer sex info in my area of the world. We certainly used the spectrum of risk concept but immediately got shot at for being too detailed and confusing or too repressively sex-negative or too irresponsibly sex-positive. We were told to keep it simple and focus on the biggies: anal and oral sex. Then that was considered condescending and incomplete.
One thing I learned in my years in community work is that there's no pleasing people.
I agree with your advice. But
I agree with your advice. But I can't resist being rankled by the business about health information sources being simplistic and things being more complicated "that we've been led to believe." I started out working in the AIDS field back in 84 and was involved in creating and publicizing safer sex info in my area of the world. We certainly used the spectrum of risk concept but immediately got shot at for being too detailed and confusing or too repressively sex-negative or too irresponsibly sex-positive. We were told to keep it simple and focus on the biggies: anal and oral sex. Then that was considered condescending and incomplete.
One thing I learned in my years in community work is that there's no pleasing people.