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Study of Caribbean Men Who Have Sex With Men Launched

Submitted by Cedriann Martin – UNAIDS Caribbean Communications Officer Please find attached a press release on the launch of the Caribbean Men’s Internet Survey (CARIMIS)–the region’s largest study of men who have sex with men and the first such research to be conducted online. Launch soundbites from Dr. Ernest Massiah, UNAIDS Caribbean Regional Support Team…

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Submitted by Cedriann Martin – UNAIDS Caribbean Communications Officer

Please find attached a press release on the launch of the Caribbean Men’s Internet Survey (CARIMIS)–the region’s largest study of men who have sex with men and the first such research to be conducted online.

Launch soundbites from Dr. Ernest Massiah, UNAIDS Caribbean Regional Support Team Director and Dereck Springer, Director of the Pan Caribbean Partnership against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP) are attached. You may also post/play/hyperlink our message videos:

Meet the men of CARIMIS


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZY2rsoWy0g

Men’s sexuality is diverse

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGtfCUteHAs

Who’s out, who’s not and so what?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxH_SDYGApU

How many CARIMIS men experience self-stigma and abuse?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1LCRX-UrJc

CARIMIS men and sexual health

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17YIx-E-muA

CAPTIONS:

4359: UNAIDS Caribbean Regional Support Team Director, Dr Ernest Massiah (from left), Chairperson of the Trinidad and Tobago Equal Opportunity Commission, Lynette Seebaran-Suite, UNAIDS Caribbean Communications Officer, Cedriann Martin, Coordinator of the Community Action Resource, David Soomarie and Director of the Pan Caribbean Partnership against HIV and  AIDS (PANCAP), Dereck Springer.
4449: UNAIDS Caribbean Regional Support Team Director, Dr Ernest Massiah (left) and Director of the Pan Caribbean Partnership against HIV and  AIDS (PANCAP), Dereck Springer.

92 responses to “Study of Caribbean Men Who Have Sex With Men Launched”

  1. ac Avatar
    ac

    most men jump at the chance for a two to one concept with lesbians
    1 intriguing
    2 exploring
    3sexual fantasies
    4 a misguide beliefs ,, that there sexual performance would be an automatic transformation for lesbians becoming heterosexual, needless to say these men might have a heart attack trying to prove themselves

  2. robert ross Avatar
    robert ross

    GP

    What a joker. OK. No more art. No more science. Only Paul and the mindless plodder GP. YEAH!

    GP would you agree that the creative element in man, along with love, are the nearest we have to ‘godliness’? Or would you say it is the ability to read?

  3. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    I should be in good shape prostatecally speaking. lol

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/10/29/men_for_pitys_sake_sleep_with_lots_of_women_and_avoid_prostate_cancer/

  4. robert ross Avatar
    robert ross

    ac

    Your (4) is spot on.

  5. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ Simple Simon | October 29, 2014 at 10:25 PM |

    Your explanation for the origin of the words “bulling” and “wicking” and their Bajan contextual meaning sounds rather plausible.

    The Bajan dialect is predominantly infused with English, Gaelic (Scottish and Irish) and Welsh sayings and idiomatic expressions with a scattering of West African dialectal relics mainly around food.

    However, I was of the view that the word “wicker” was a corruption of the word ‘Wicca’ referring to so-called witches who live alone or in all-female settings (covens) and who practise the pagan religion called Wicca, what people would call sorcery or witchcraft.

  6. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    ross
    can you understand this simple outline of a simple Pauline arguement?
    ROMANS 1:18-28

    Revelation of God derided
    Rejection of God preferred
    Rationalization of God’s Word decided
    Reversal of Truth presented
    Religious perversion accepted
    Reprobate minds adopted
    Ravishing appetites practiced
    Retribution of God delivered

  7. Sunshine Sunny Shine Avatar
    Sunshine Sunny Shine

    Hahahahahaah…@millertheanunnaki

    Wuh you people too scholary with these explanations. Please can you explain the origin of boxcy.

  8. robert ross Avatar
    robert ross

    GP

    You are pathetic. But sorry…remind me…is that little list to be found in Romans? Did Paul incorporate it into a sin list? I conclude, however, that you account ‘godliness’ as an ability to read. So I guess that ends it……………..”pieces of eight, pieces of eight, pieces of eight, pieces of eight….squawk, squawk” – sorry GP, did you say something?….Don’t shit on your perch there’s a good fella..

  9. Sargeant Avatar
    Sargeant

    @Simple Simon
    In old English to bull simply meant to have intercourse, but the meaning of the word developed in Barbados to mean male-male intercourse only
    +++++++++++
    Show us the Chaucerian evidence, is there any evidence that some variation survived to this day? Is your explanation another “cock and bull” story? I am surprised that “Miller” fell for that bit of speculative etymology.

    Now could you explain the origin of Papal Bulls, or the piece of paper known as a “bull” that we used to put on our kites to make that buzzing sound? How about the Jamaican pastry known as “bulla bread”? How did “bully” originate?

    I am all eyes and ears.

  10. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    @ Sunshine Sunny Shine the word is “botsie”. Don’t know the origin.

  11. Sunshine Sunny Shine Avatar
    Sunshine Sunny Shine

    @Hants

    Hahahaha than how can you dispute that I spelled it wrong when you are saying there is apparently no known origin. Look the bajan language too sweet. Anybody know this one: ” You musse catch gookma and gookapeckie. You is catching is a head cold”

  12. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    robert ross | October 30, 2014 at 8:20 AM |
    GP

    You are pathetic. But sorry…remind me…is that little list to be found in Romans? Did Paul incorporate it into a sin list? I conclude, however, that you account ‘godliness’ as an ability to read. So I guess that ends it……………..”pieces of eight, pieces of eight, pieces of eight, pieces of eight….squawk, squawk” – sorry GP, did you say something?….Don’t shit on your perch there’s a good fella..

    you are such a Bible illiterate
    what you call a little list is a beautiful summary or sermon outline on
    ROMANS 1:18-28

    Revelation of God derided
    Rejection of God preferred
    Rationalization of God’s Word decided
    Reversal of Truth presented
    Religious perversion accepted
    Reprobate minds adopted
    Ravishing appetites practiced
    Retribution of God delivered

    read the list and read the passage again
    this passage is one of those that explains the aetiology of sin
    17 For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.

    18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;

    19 Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.

    20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:

    21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.

    22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

    23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.

    24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:

    25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.

    26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:

    27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.

    28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;

    29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,

    30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

    31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:

    32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.

  13. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    @ Sunshine Sunny Shine,

    I spelt it the way we used to pronounce it 50 years ago.

    ” da girl dey got a big botsie yuh” lol

  14. David Avatar
    David

    Apple CEO Tim Cook: ‘I’m Proud To Be Gay’

    Bloomberg via Getty Images

    Apple CEO Tim Cook came out as gay in a powerful essay for Bloomberg’s Businessweek.

    In the essay, published Thursday, Cook said that he has never denied being gay, but has not publicly discussed his sexuality until now: "So let me be clear: I’m proud to be gay, and I consider being gay among the greatest gifts God has given me."

    Read the whole story

  15. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    RE Hants | October 30, 2014 at 2:43 PM |
    @ Sunshine Sunny Shine,

    I spelt it the way we used to pronounce it 50 years ago.

    ” da girl dey got a big botsie yuh” lol

    HANTS I PERCEIVE THAT YOU ARE A MAN WHO LOVES TO HAVE SOMETHING SOLID TO HOLD ON TO IN A SERIOUS CRISIS!

  16. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    @ Georgie Porgie ,

    YOUR PERCEPTION IS CORRECT. LOL

  17. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    hold on tight bro
    to fall off at your age and get a brek up back would be worse dan Archie

  18. Colonel Buggy Avatar
    Colonel Buggy

    During my service days I lived at two barracks ,one in the Rhine Area and the other in Aldershot, and when sending mail to Barbados I had to omit the names of these barracks. They were both name after General Sir Redvers Buller , VC. (pronounced Boo-ler Barracks)

  19. Boy Blue Avatar
    Boy Blue

    Buller Steer Syndrome.
    http://www.usask.ca/wcvm/herdmed/applied-ethology/articles/bullers.html

  20. robert ross Avatar
    robert ross

    LOL. Not only an idiot parrot – a self-confessed and incorrigible idiot parrot. If you MUST shit on your perch for Christ’s sake wipe your ass.

  21. ac Avatar
    ac

    Life with all its complexities subject us to make judgement calls , But before doing ,should we not take a step back look with great depth while searching seeking understanding and allowing our minds to sift through the the complexities that others live that we donot understand and asked ourselves why?
    Here is a story makes for interesting reading about the daily life of a homosexual trapped in a life of social taboos and wanting to know why

    http://www.irinnews.org/report/100509/paul-gay-rights-campaigner-in-drc-they-said-i-was-the-antichrist

  22. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ Sargeant | October 30, 2014 at 8:38 AM |
    “Now could you explain the origin of Papal Bulls, or the piece of paper known as a “bull” that we used to put on our kites to make that buzzing sound?”

    The term Papal Bull is associated with the seal or “Bulla” of the Pontiff of Rome. The material making the papal seal had to be boiled (it’s Latin origin being “bullire”).

    I am sure you have heard of the term raging bull. What better term to describe a noisy kite called Jake LaMotta who would have enjoyed a good dish of Jamaican “bull-foot” soup?

  23. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    Discussion of bullerology an wickamology.

    http://www.nationnews.com/articles/view/changing-views/

  24. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    For me fellow geriacreics who can only look or lick, these girls could wake the dead. lol

    http://www.nationnews.com/articles/view/calendar-girls-rock/

  25. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    sorry about the spelling mistake….Geriatrics.

    Dem girls got de ole man head spinnin although duh too young fuh me,

  26. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    hants
    cover your stumps, go on the front foot and play straight

  27. Dompey Avatar
    Dompey

    Georgie Porgie

    You don’t seem to get it? And it is funny how you think that your Religious- worldview is the be all and end all? This is not the way the Hebrew Scriptures conveys it brother. And from the secular point of view: it appears readily apparent that you’re attempting to force your religious convictions down the throats of those persons who aren’t the least concern about your views on Christianity. I am a Christian and have been for the past twenty years. But I know enough to respect the beliefs of others whether they’re: atheist, agnostic, pantheist, secular- humanist, existentialist, Buddhist, Hindus and Muslim etc. And the reason why I have chosen to respect the views of others whether they’re believers or nonbelievers, centers squarely on the fact that when God along with his Son Jesus created the world. In His prescience, God knew that Corrupted man was incapable of a perfect obedience. So what did the Omnipresent, Omnipotent and Omniscient God did? He constructed within man the concept of Free-Will. God endowed Sinful man with the divine principle of Free- Will because He wanted Sinful man through the process of critical analysis, to make his own decisions; to act in accordance of his own judgment sir. So in essence, the entire concept of the Christian- Faith oscillates upon the divine principle of Free- will, or what modern academia would termed today: self –determination, self- realization, self- actualization, intellectual and cognitive freedom and finally, self- perfection.

  28. de hood Avatar
    de hood

    @ baalam’s ass

    Your words, quote………..”But I know enough to respect the beliefs of others whether they’re: atheist, agnostic, pantheist, secular- humanist, existentialist, Buddhist, Hindus and Muslim etc” Unquote.
    By your very words you prove yourself a total LIAR. I distinctly remember that only a short while ago you were trying to lambaste the LDS church. Where was your RESPECT then for others who believe differntly to you!! Huh? You Liar!!!!!

  29. pieceuhderockyeahright Avatar
    pieceuhderockyeahright

    It is a thing Bulbadian that there will be three types of people who will risk commenting on this type of topic (i) those who are absolutely against the same sexness practices (ii) those who are for it and (iii) those who, while brought up with homophobic orientations, are saddled with a loving, caring Brokeback Mountain relative.

    So for the most part when many comment here it is with a fear of not voicing one’s opinion too vocally since, just the act of being here, irrespective of wishing to be assigned category (i) just because one posts here one is considered considered category (ii).

    But I wanted to give another perspective, a category (iv) which will call on all aspects of this connundrum for your thoughts and learned consideration.

    At all times the Holy Bible or some other religious instruction comes into focus by those espousing why it is “not right to be same sex oriented”. I am being politically correct.

    When you have a family member who is “that way given” as heterosexual men with gonads it is like a physical slap in your face. “Which side uh de family dat boy/girl get those genes from?”

    Over time, and with exposure to the boy/girl, you cant help but grudgingly love the little fellow and you dont see his … I am searching for a word… variancy, you see him

    With time, and with genuine introspection, you are less disposed to scorn his disposition and you start, some of us, TO TRY TO UNDERSTAND.

    I must say that I do not “understand” it at all BUT I do have some queries that I have formulated over the years.

    For the Holier than Thou brethren and sisteren and those in that crew that rely on Romans without exclusion I would ask you to ponder this.

    Genesis1. 26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

    Yet In Genesis 2. 18 in undisputed chronological order, it says “And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.

    Some of the metaphysicists among you will understand the yin and yang rather the concept that both principles, the male and female essence coexisted in the First Adam prior to the “sleep”.

    Essence is not predicated by form so a male principle can be in a female body or a female principle in a male body.

    Fast forward @ today and Chris Back (Australia) who restates that “maleness is actually suppressed femaleness due to the stages of embryonic development”

    In simple biological terms, which Dr. GP might affirm or gainsay, we males are males because the dominant female chromosone, is suppressed!!

    So we have an androgynous creation with a departure point in the Biblical version of Adamic man, possibly coinciding with today’s meiotic divisions as posited by science bring us to a point where UN Human Rights Charters seek to enforce tolerance of “bullers and lesbians” for us homophobic males and (pretend) heterosexuals.

    After a while the grandness of this creation befuddles you and makes you pause a while “and their fond pageant see, just to realise “what fools (we) these mortals be”

  30. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    de hood | November 3, 2014 at 6:54 PM |

    GLAD TO SEE YOU MAN
    JUST THE OTHER DAY I WAS WONDERING IF THEY HAD PLANTED YOU
    YA GOT TO KEEP FAR FROM BU DESE DAYS CAUSE THE VOLUME OF SHIT BALAAM;S ASS PRODUCING BOUND TO GOT THE EBOLA VIRUS IN IT

  31. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ pieceuhderockyeahright | November 3, 2014 at 7:49 PM |

    What you have written is the one of the most befuddled explanation of why men and women are neither male nor female but a conundrum of both. Homosexuality is just the extreme points of the Bell curve; both left and right, male and female.
    Bisexuality is a genetic trait that either afflicts or free many humans caught up in their ‘black or white’ cocoon of sexuality.

    Human life is not only a beauty of sexual and social variegation but a colourful reflection of our evolutionary genes. The bonobo philosopher would be proud of you.

    PS: Could you please advise our mutual friend in intellectual drunkenness, Dompey the JA, to stay off the bottle on this one.
    As consideration to his agreement to forego this debate we will be prepared to pay his bar tab woefully in arrears.

  32. de hood Avatar
    de hood

    @GP
    Hi Doc. I guess that one of these days planting time will arrive but I hope “not yet”.(lol) However I am ready for the event. I have already left instructions with the family how things should be done for the disposal of my mortal remains. I rather prefer to go the route of being put in the big oven at Coral Ridge as apposed to making fertilizer and food for the worms up there, (nothing wrong with a little levity at times, huh?). Also, I will ask that BU be informed of the event of ol’ de hood going to claim a likkle room in his Heavenly Father’s house. Never wanted the mansion; I’ll leave those for people like Froon & Stinking liar (Dopey Domps?) LOL.
    Regards.
    dh.

  33. de hood Avatar
    de hood

    @Hants | November 1, 2014 at 9:15 AM |

    sorry about the spelling mistake….Geriatrics.

    Dem girls got de ole man head spinnin although duh too young fuh me,

    H, don’t let the age bother you, there is still some hope for us geriatrics because right now there is a 19yr old who trying to set flybait for ol dehood. (LOL) And let me tell you, she is a great looking specimen of our Father’s creation!

  34. David Avatar
    David

    de Hood

    Behave!

    Lol

  35. de hood Avatar
    de hood

    @ David

    Just a likkle levity, Dave, never hurt anyone; but thanks anyway for the chastisement! LOL.

  36. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    @ De Hood, ” trying to set flybait for ol dehood.”

    Sometimes it is enough to know that “you could if you wanted to” but your maturity prevailed and you didn’t. lol

  37. David Avatar
    David

    @Hants

    Has this been your experience?

  38. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    Yes David but I have learned to resist temptation in my old age.

  39. Dompey Avatar
    Dompey

    De Hood

    If you intend to bring a charge against me, you ought to have given it verbatim or at the least paraphrase it brother. The only comment I do recall making in reference to Church of the Latter Saints, was its discriminatory practices against African Americans in the 1800s.

  40. de hood Avatar
    de hood

    @ dompey the dopey
    Ok!!!!!!!! I fully understand your defense! You are now trying to claim you were too full of “de spirits” (what’s your fav? Mount Gay/Cocpspur?) to even remember what you wrote. You remind me of those politicians we have around here in Bim, they have become so good at LYING that they now believe the lies that they tell is the truth!! Carry on smartly fella.

  41. Exclaimer Avatar
    Exclaimer

    It’s about time that Jamaica stops condemning and attacking those who choose to live a gay/bi-sexual life. Jamaica is increasingly viewed as a pariah state by those who find her attitudes on gays as both ignorant and intolerable.

    http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/may/05/bisexual-jamaica-asylum-seeker-facing-imminent-deportation-from-uk

  42. Mark Rosmar Avatar
    Mark Rosmar

    Surely Britain isn’t the closest safe country to Jamaica though.

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