Saudi Arabien: AIDS og HIV eksploderer

Mens islamister prædiker om, hvordan der skal total tildækning af kvinder til for at bekæmpe voldtægt, sex-chikane og kønssygdomme, så lader verdens mest islamisk regerede land til ikke helt at have haft succes med det. Alene over de seneste 4 år er antallet af AIDS og HIV-tilfælde i landet ottedoblet (kilder: 1, 2 og 3):

Aug 2002	1,285
Dec 2003	6,787
2004	7,800
Jun 2006	10,000+

Dette er de officielle tal. Uofficielt er det reelle tal på 80.000, og dette er med total kønsapartheid og deportation af samtlige udlændinge, der er smittede. Sammenlign med det ifølge islamiske normer utilstrækkeligt kønsfascistiske Danmark (hvor kvinder forøvrigt iflg Saudiske kilder gifter sig med hunde og æsler), hvor det samlede antal AIDS og HIV-smittede ligger på omkring 5.000.

To mulige årsager til den voldsomme epidemi af AIDS i det islamiske paradis Saudi-Arabien:

1. At den islamiske forestilling om sikker sex er at dyrke det med et lagen mellem sexpartnerne, kun med et hul til de mandlige kønsdele.
2. At ugifte mænd, der jo ikke fra naturens hånd er udstyret med en seksualitet der kan slukkes frem til de bliver gift, simpelthen kaster sig over hinanden og dyrker ubeskyttet analsex alt hvad de kan.

En artikel fra denne måneds udgave af The Atlantic giver her et fingerpeg om, at det sidste er tilfældet:

...some of the men having sex with other men don't consider themselves gay. For many Saudis, the fact that a man has sex with another man has little to do with "gayness." The act may fulfill a desire or a need, but it doesn't constitute an identity. Nor does it strip a man of his masculinity, as long as he is in the "top," or active, role...

In Saudi Arabia, "It's easier to be a lesbian [than a heterosexual]. There's an overwhelming number of people who turn to lesbianism," Yasmin said, adding that the number of men in the kingdom who turn to gay sex is even greater. "They're not really homosexual," she said. "They're like cell mates in prison."

This analogy came up again and again during my conversations. As Radwan, the Saudi American, put it, "Some Saudi [men] can't have sex with women, so they have sex with guys. When the sexes are so strictly segregated"-men are allowed little contact with women outside their families, in order to protect women's purity-"how do they have a chance to have sex with a woman and not get into trouble?" Tariq, a 24-year-old in the travel industry, explains that many "tops" are simply hard up for sex, looking to break their abstinence in whatever way they can. Francis, a 34-year-old beauty queen from the Philippines (in 2003 he won a gay beauty pageant held in a private house in Jeddah by a group of Filipinos), reported that he's had sex with Saudi men whose wives were pregnant or menstruating; when those circumstances changed, most of the men stopped calling. "If they can't use their wives," Francis said, "they have this option with gays."

Gay courting in the kingdom is often overt-in fact, the preferred mode is cruising. "When I was new here, I was worried when six or seven cars would follow me as I walked down the street," Jamie, a 31-year-old Filipino florist living in Jeddah, told me. "Especially if you're pretty like me, they won't stop chasing you." John Bradley, the author of Saudi Arabia Exposed: Inside a Kingdom in Crisis (2005), says that most male Western expatriates here, gay or not, have been propositioned by Saudi men driving by "at any time of the day or night, quite openly and usually very, very persistently."