When it comes to HIV risk, marital sex seems to be the biggest source of it especially for the women, unveils a new study that is based on six months of anthropological research
, including participant observation, 20 marital case studies, 37 key informant interviews, and document analysis.
As per the findings of this study, males’ infidelity towards their spouse is mainly to be blamed for this much of rise in HIV/AIDS cases, as a big percentage of male community takes pride in indulging in extra marital sex, as a result innocent wives and their unborn babies are exposed to bear the brunt.
If we deeply ruminate over the ongoing fight against HIV/AIDS, keeping in view the stark fact, undraped by this study, then one thing could certainly be said that all effort to tide over HIV/AIDS would come to naught if this tendency of extramarital sex continuously goes on thriving. The sooner we accept the fact that extramarital sex is one of the main reasons behind HIV-transmission the better it would be. This is possible by imparting awareness among people that how detrimental unsafe extramarital sex could be.
Actually, this trend of extra marital relations was already there but in the recent years, this trend has bloomed as never before. There are many factors responsible for this among which steep rise in industrialization, labor migration, are chiefly responsible. As people migrate from one place to other in search of jobs and while away for long periods, they engage in extra-marital and unsafe sex, which often expose them to deadly HIV-infection. When these men return home, they infect their wives with the deadly virus during sexual intercourse.
However, saying that all is good that comes with this study would be somewhat wrong. As this study holds only men responsible for HIV transmission through marital sex, this seems somewhat lopsided because not only men but women also indulge in extramarital sex and thus contribute into HIV-transmission. On this issue, stephenj remarks sound quite plausible, when he says:
I know of more females (both young and old) that cheat on their husbands, then men on their wives. Even in Hermosillo, Mexico, what do you think the wife is doing at home, while the husband is traveling at work, and the kid is at school (playing solitaire? NOT!). This study is so lopsided, there are just as many wives at home (and cheating), as there are husbands traveling (and cheating).
Conclusion
Therefore, we shall have to admit that not only men but women too are somewhere responsible for raising HIV risk through marital sex. Here it is not as important to discuss that who is responsible and who is not, but it is more important to know that how the risk of HIV transmission through marital sex could be reduced. When it comes to control such risk then normally monogamy is defined as the most effective tool but we shall have to admit that humans are not genetically programmed for monogamy. Therefore, it would be much better if we stress on the need of safe extramarital sex rather than asking men and women to abide by the ethic called monogamy.
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