Lainaps (line-ups)

As rape and harassment by police had been identified as a serious issue by
sex workers during the earlier formative research phase of this *project,
an effort was made directly to target policemen, with special emphasis on
prevention of lainaps, the term used for coercive group sex in Papua New
Guinea.

In the context of police work, both the sex workers and police have
reported repeated situations in which known sex workers would be taken out
of cars, drinking venues, or off the street, ordered into the police cars
and taken to a police station, the police barracks, or to an uninhabited
section of the city, and raped by a number of men in tandem.

Practices were reported, such as calling other police on their radios and
announcing that they had a 'public toilet' and inviting them to come to a
particular location and join in.

At the barracks, younger policemen were initiated into the practice within
the police sub-culture of Port Moresby.

* 'Safe Sex' enforcement program in New Guinea

From: - Final Report to Unaids: Police and Sex Workers in Papua New Guinea

Paul King is a liar.
Real HIV/AIDS information on
http://www.HIVAIDSsearch.com or http://www.HIVsearch.com

You try to imply with your dishonest title that the safe sex program
in Papua New Guinea is somehow responsible for or complicit in rape,
but nothing in the text you quoted justifies that conclusion.

--
David Canzi "Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find
a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a
nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity."
-- Eric Hoffer

Read it again. The police enforcing condom use are doing the raping.

Seemed quite clear to me.

In article <0881a354b8e945ac28a4558e73d7d890@localhost.talkab outhealthnetwork.com>,
PaulKing <aimulti@aimultimedia.com> wrote:
Many of the things that seem clear to you are not true.

The police were not described anywhere in the article as "enforcing"
condom use.

The police are not the safe sex program:

This project has been executed as part of a larger one
supported with funds from AusAID. The AusAID project is one
component of a larger HIV and Sexual Health Project conducted
with the PNG Department of Health over 3 years. The AusAID
project overlaps to some degree, targeting female sex workers
and transport workers (sailors, dockside workers) in two
cities, Port Moresby and Lae. In Lae truckers are included,
while only in Port Moresby policemen and security men are
included.

From the summary of the report:

A peer educator-based intervention for police, aimed
specifically at reducing the frequency of gang rape of
sex workers, was launched in mid-1996 as part of a larger
intervention with sex workers. Considerable effort was placed
on educating the higher levels of police management to the
issues and good cooperation was attained. Police peer educators
were trained and a comic book directly targeting gang rape was
produced. Time limitation required a post-test among police
within 9 months of the start of active intervention. Total
condom use with casual and commercial sex partners rose from
49% to 70% and the frequency of gang rape was halved, from 10%
to 4.8% (P=.05).

By your bizarre parody of anything resembling logic, an organization
that spends effort and money on reducing police corruption comes
to share the blame for that corruption. Flawed thinking is my more
charitable interpretation of your latest lapse from rationality.

My less charitable, and probably more accurate, interpretation is that
you're a squalid liar and incapable of feeling shame or guilt.

--
David Canzi Religion is taught to children as soon as they
can talk. Logic is taught in university.