Episode 110: Sex and the Single Swede – Celia Farber Considers Julian Assange’s Refusal of an ‘HIV Test’
Episode 110: Sex and the Single Swede - Celia Farber Considers Julian Assange's Refusal of an 'HIV Test' [ 1 h 16 min 48 s | 35.16 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (747)In August 2010, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange refused to take an “HIV test” in Sweden at the request of two young women with whom he had had consensual sex. To avoid extradition to Sweden to face accusations under that country’s “expansive,” and expanding, rape law, Assange has been effectively imprisoned for the past four years in the Ecuadorian embassy in London.
“Only in the shadow of the 1980s HIV/AIDS mushroom cloud, could a broken condom be met with such hysteria, and morph into a criminal drama, involving several governments and millions of dollars,” wrote former “How Positive Are You” co-host Celia Farber. Close to the fourth anniversary of Assange’s exile, Elizabeth Ely joins Celia in her Manhattan kitchen for tea and discussion of her February 2016 New York Observer article on the sexual politics of this unusual case. Continue reading »
Comment (0)Episode 81: Mark Skanda Channels the ‘Tantric Tiger’ Wisdom of Sex and Ignites the Next (Gay) Revolution
Mark Skanda describes himself as a professional masseur, change agent, pleasure activist, life coach, selective and sacred sex educator, and even sometimes a sex worker, currently working and playing in New York City. He talks here with “How Positive Are You” co-hosts David Crowe and Elizabeth Ely about what it means to explore the “Tantric Tiger” in all of us. We invite you to listen in on this fascinating, challenging and playful discussion that shifts the conversation from “safe sex” to the health benefits of feeling safe in the arms of a lover. . . . Let’s get it on. Continue reading »
Comment (1)Episode 80: Dr. James DeMeo Talks About Dr. Wilhelm Reich and the Fascism of ‘Safe Sex’
Every conversation about “AIDS” eventually gets around to the dangers of getting it on. Is sex really unsafe at any speed? Unsafe for whom? What does love have to do with it? Amazingly, the answers to these questions have been around for more than 60 years, in the work of the late Dr. Wilhelm Reich. Dr. James DeMeo is furthering this important research at his Orgone Biophysical Research Laboratory (OBRL) — and no, it’s not pornographic and you can’t watch. You can, however, listen in as Dr. DeMeo and “How Positive Are You” co-host Elizabeth Ely talk about electrical discharges, love, the healing powers of a sexual energy called “orgone,” orgone accumulator boxes, and the energy of life itself. Continue reading »
Comment (0)Episode 76: Bobby Russell, Learning to Live Without ‘HIV’
Episode 76: Bobby Russell, Learning to 'Live Without "HIV"' [ 1 h 07 min 00 s | 30.67 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1078)This isn’t your usual, heartwarming living-with-HIV story. In August 2013, having found that he was “false positive,” Bobby Russell stopped taking “AIDS” drugs and filed a lawsuit against several doctors, hospitals and others over what they had put him through unnecessarily for more than eight years. As fate would have it, one of Bobby’s former doctors is now head of a major medical association.
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