Reduce HIV by Making Women Ugly

(Harare, Zimbabwe) A parliamentary workshop explored ways to reduce Zimbabwe's high HIV infection rate. Here's a proposal.

Make women less attractive by forcing them to shave their heads and stop taking baths. Those are suggestions by Morgan Femai, a senator for the opposition Movement for Democratic Change representing Chikomo.

"The government should come up with a law that compels women to have their heads clean-shaven like what the Apostolic sects do," said Femai, speaking to a parliamentary HIV awareness workshop in Kadoma on Friday, according to Nehanda Radio.

"They should also not bathe because that is what has caused all these problems," said Femai. If women dressed in shabby clothes and were uglier, men would not be drawn to have sex with them, she said.

This idea is not well thought out. HIV infections allegedly vectored out of the simian population in Africa by men having sex with monkeys. If it is true that men will have sex with ugly, stinking monkeys, there's no reason to believe that men will be deterred from having sex with ugly, stinking women.