$2.6M Of YOUR tax dollars going to....

[thatJeffguy]

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009...titutes-drink/

NIH Funds $2.6 Million Study to Get Prostitutes in China to Drink Less

Yes that's right folks! What better way to stimulate, pardon the pun, the US economy than by making sure Chinese whore's aren't turning into drunks!

The federal government is spending $2.6 million to make sure prostitutes in China drink less on the job.

That's the goal of a five-year study, bankrolled by the National Institutes of Health, designed to help lower HIV infections among China's "female sex workers," who are referred to in the study as "FSWs."

Researchers will visit 100 houses of ill repute -- a whole hamlet of harlots -- to collect data on 700 prostitutes and 150 pimps and madams, referred to as "gatekeepers" in the study's sterile abstract.

Phase one of the study is intended to research "alcohol use/abuse and related sexual risk among FSWs in China," according to the abstract -- a cold hard look at why prostitutes engage in dangerous sex while drunk.

The study's director says the information gained from the study will then be used to tailor HIV prevention programs for the bawds from Beihai, a coastal tourist town in Guangxi province, which has the third-highest HIV infection rate of China's 22 provinces.

The project comes thanks to a grant from the NIH's National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, which is also funding a $400,000 study of bars in Buenos Aires to find out why gay men engage in risky sexual behavior while drunk -- and just what can be done about it.

The first prong of the Chinese intervention program involves "gatekeeper training," which means teaching pimps and madams to enhance the culture of safe sex in their brothels.

The study's director, Dr. Xiaoming Li of Wayne State University in Michigan, then hopes to convince the prostitutes to drink less and use condoms more while they're on the job.

The U.N. estimates that about 700,000 people are infected with HIV in China, mostly transmitted through unprotected sex. Recent government programs to distribute condoms to prostitutes have helped address the problem, but they haven't solved it.

The study -- tailored specifically for use in China -- was approved in November, and the government has already spent $469,903 to fund it.

"The proposed intervention program will be a cultural adaptation and integration of existing evidence-based programs in Asian settings," reads the study's abstract, which singles out China as a special challenge because of unique cultural circumstances (and 10 million working prostitutes) there.

Dr. Li, who did not respond to calls and e-mails from FOXNews.com seeking comment, told CNS News that because prostitution occurs with alcohol use in the United States, just as it does in China, Americans will be able to benefit from the project's findings.

"We want to get some understanding of the fundamental role of alcohol use and HIV risk," he said. "We use the population in China as our targeted population to look at the basic issues. I think the findings will benefit the American people, too."

I'm literally f'ing speechless.


Are y'all still audaciously believing in change/hope?

[ReconLdr]

This has to be some kind of joke, right? Sadly I suspect it isn't, nothing since November 2008 has really surprised me.

[LorDiego01]

Researchers will visit 100 houses of ill repute

Where do I apply for this job???

[camper]

Where do I apply for this job???

LOL...the only job where YOU will have to pay

camer

[reverserboy]

Where do I apply for this job???

If you get hired....maybe Charlie Sheen will be your boss.

[Warpt762x39]

I must say this is worse than all the money spent on studying reindeer farts damaging the environment. Why the hell do we care what Chinese prostitutes are doing?

Of course if the fed is busy with the Chinese hookers, maybe they'll stop raping us. I think $2.6 million is a small price to pay for that lol

[adymond]

LOL...the only job where YOU will have to pay

camer

I realize you are joking, but I am pretty pissed every time I open my pay check and see I have paid one government agency or another about 40% of my income for the privilege of working.

If only the federal government would be distracted by Chineese hookers I would pay for a few myself and send them down to DC. Sadly I think this is just a bit of misdirection to keep us from seeing what is really going on behind the curtain.

[PocketProtector]

I must say this is worse than all the money spent on studying reindeer farts damaging the environment. Why the hell do we care what Chinese prostitutes are doing?

Of course if the fed is busy with the Chinese hookers, maybe they'll stop raping us. I think $2.6 million is a small price to pay for that lol

Seems to me it's consensual.

[camper]

I realize you are joking, but I am pretty pissed every time I open my pay check and see I have paid one government agency or another about 40% of my income for the privilege of working.

Agree totally. Often it's decision to either "laugh or cry".

But you want to know how screwed up and tax-happy the gov is? If you're a military member and you're overseas for over 179 days, your pay is tax free. BUT...all these people deployed for a year or more are either brought back to the US or sent to Germany for a couple days, and then shipped right back where they came from in the field so the gov can make sure that they don't miss out on taxing their military members to the fullest profit potential.

We are WAY out of control with taxes. Saw something somewhere that we're all going to be living in "Sweet Haven" soon.

camper

[adymond]

Agree totally. Often it's decision to either "laugh or cry".

But you want to know how screwed up and tax-happy the gov is? If you're a military member and you're overseas for over 179 days, your pay is tax free. BUT...all these people deployed for a year or more are either brought back to the US or sent to Germany for a couple days, and then shipped right back where they came from in the field so the gov can make sure that they don't miss out on taxing their military members to the fullest profit potential.

We are WAY out of control with taxes. Saw something somewhere that we're all going to be living in "Sweet Haven" soon.

camper

Military pay should be 100% tax free always.