Crushing Krisis

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I feel shitty. I was just talking to a guy who i always thought was totally self-confident and great and attractive and wonderful and found out that none of the above was true at all. I always had a certain envy of him inside of me because i had a lot in common with him (build, hair, humor) but he seemed so much more well-liked than me. However, as the conversation proved, he is even less confident than i am, despite all of this. Yet, in the face of all of that, he still has had some interludes with girls who i find to be totally out of my league, and then a couple of miles further than that. So… now i hate him even more for what he’s had with them, but sympathize totally with his inability to tell if he’s liked at all. Shitty.

https://www.crushingkrisis.com/2001/01/2030962/

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It’s strange to think about sex in America before AIDS existed. Without having to worry about anything except for pregnancy or the occasional threat of clamydia or syphilis, what would today’s culture be like? Not that i’d be out on the streets humping everything that passed me by, but i think the importance and trust that i attach to sex would no longer really be applicable. Do you ever ponder that? If you have any relevant thoughts, let me know.

https://www.crushingkrisis.com/2000/12/1527306/

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There were two incredibly cool things about being a peer counselor in high school. The first thing was that i was involved in the school Health Fair every year, and i got to co-direct and produce the fair assembly for three years running. The second thing was that we were responsible for teaching initial contraceptive lessons to eighth grade students who by law couldn’t be taught about contraceptives in a specific manner in previous years. I don’t know which i enjoyed more: getting to do a monologue about why using the word “gay” under the wrong pretense (“that’s so gay”) demeaned the entire men’s soccer team or teaching 30 stunning thirteen year olds about the birth control pill while still wearing a condom over my entire arm from the condom demonstration. My point? “So, if any of you boys still think a condom will be restrictive during sex you’ve obviously got us all beat on size.”

https://www.crushingkrisis.com/2000/12/1527216/

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One of the main reasons i find the Catholic church disgusting is that they refuse to advocate any form of contraceptive birth control. I think even the Pope realizes by now that people are having premarital sex, but the church’s stance on the use of condoms and the birth control pill hasn’t changed an inch. While this just makes them seem all the more backwards within the bounds of American culture, in many countries (especially in Latin America) the church’s word is law, and it’s easier to obey a law that says not to use condoms then to obey a law that says not to have sex. Either you’ve got to have people obey both laws, or neither.

https://www.crushingkrisis.com/2000/12/1527117/

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Or maybe i’m wrong. I’ve spent years now learning and teaching my peers about HIV / AIDS, and really this is the first season in half a decade i’ve spent totally removed from such a community. Is it any less in my thoughts? No, not at all. I’ve known people who have died from aids, and met some of the bravest people in the world who live with the disease. In fact, if statistics are to be believed, i have at least three or four friends who suffer from HIV or will in the near future. Of course, i pray to myself that the statistics are as wrong as statistics tend to be, but i suppose i’ll hardly ever know until it’s much too late. Maybe silence is a way to show how AIDS effects your world, but it isn’t the way to show how it has effected mine. But, no matter how it’s changed you, i encourage you to support World AIDS day as well, even if it’s just by wearing a tiny red ribbon. They aren’t as fashionable as they used to be, but red will be in season until HIV is not.

https://www.crushingkrisis.com/2000/11/1462896/