Sex action: 'every sperm is sacred, every sperm is great. Any sperm gets wasted and god gets quite irate,' went the monty python hymn. What's been happening in sub-Saharan Africa is no joke, though.

New Internationalist › Nbr. 2010, January 2010

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Sex action: 'every sperm is sacred, every sperm is great. Any sperm gets wasted and god gets quite irate,' went the monty python hymn. What's been happening in sub-Saharan Africa is no joke, though.

'We should be talking about sex!' said one exasperated family planning promoter from Vietnam. She was dismayed at how arcane the discussion at the population scientists' conference had been getting. 'Population is sex action!' she insisted. 'It's about man and woman having sex!'

Or not having it - as the Bush Administration, the Vatican and other 'abstinence' ideologues prefer.

One of the first things President Obama did on coming to office was indicate that he would reverse the 'glo...

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