A student told me today that he was from South Africa. He said HIV was an epidemic down there. I asked why is that? What he said shocked me…

When people in the tribes move to the cities for work the men can have up to 5 wives. Each wife can have have another husband and so on. So if you think about it if one of them contract a disease it spreads though the population like wildfire. That is something I never knew. But I’ve been to other countries and understand how our customs change. Most Americans are very conservative with sex. In other countries if a wife has sex with another man it’s really no big deal.

When I was in Germany years ago the German guy would totally ignore the girls. We would dance and hang out with them all night. Sometimes getting very friendly. The guys just stayed to themselves. To me that was always sort of bizarre. Some of the women would be smokin’ ass hot and the guys would rather play grab ass with their buddies and totally ignore them.

I think I like our ways the best or at least that is what I’ve come to accept.