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For the complete story go to poz.com--all words in bold are my emphasis
http://blogs.poz.com/oriol/archives/2011/01/aids_candy_lady.html
Parents wake up--YOU are NOT teaching your children about sex and you won't allow educated people to do it using words the kids already know or their street equivalent
AIDS Candy Lady
Here's an excerpt:
When
Juanita Davis, director of HIV prevention and education for the state
of Mississippi, visits church or school groups to teach about the virus,
she arrives armed with Mounds bars, 5th Avenue bars and lots of Sugar
Babies.
She brings the sweets not to bribe her audiences to pay
attention, but rather to help illustrate, with physical analogies, the
things she is not allowed to say in the places she visits. Imagine
trying to teach HIV prevention without being able to say "penis,"
"condom" or "semen."
That's where the candy bars come in.
The
fact that Davis must use candy as euphemisms for body parts,
contraceptives and bodily fluids says much about the environment in
which she--and others--are trying to fight the next big wave of HIV/AIDS
in America ...
The HIV/AIDS epidemic is raging across the Southern United States like an out-of-control fire.
Because
of her innovative approach to HIV prevention, the titles "AIDS lady"
and "candy lady" now greet her whenever she gives one of her talks.
Here's a YouTube video of Juanita at work:
In
traveling to Mississippi to report on his thesis and our article, Carl
conducted face-to-face video interviews with Juanita Davis and others. Click here to watch her interview.
"Southern
Discomfort" documents the complex circumstances that fuel the HIV/AIDS
epidemic in the South, including poverty, funding shortfalls, natural
disasters, immigration issues, language barriers, lack of transportation
and homophobia.
Although from an admittedly biased source, I encourage everyone to read it. Click here to read the article.