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| Globe & Mail: Sex Slaves for Science |
| 2006-01-08 |
| Salome Simon has slept with almost 50,000 men since Canadian-led researchers discovered she's one of those amazing Nairobi prostitutes whose immunity to HIV could be the key to beating AIDS. Two decades later, with no cure in sight, she's still a medical guinea pig but also a grandmother who is tired of plying her trade. Canada, she tells Stephanie Nolen, should help her find a decent job. .... Canadian researchers want her to continue in the business so they can continue monitoring her. Salome is 44 and dirt poor. She owns A couple of kangas, the bright print wraps she wears as skirts, and a couple of blouses. A transistor radio, some aluminum pots and one little luxury, a gilded bottle of spicy perfume. What she doesn't have that the other sex workers do have is AIDS. |
| Posted by:3dc |
| #8 Let's do some math. if she is 44, I'd say she has been at it for 30 years, so we have 1600/year. Divide by 365 days and one gets 4.4 johns per day. Every day. For 30 fricking years. I AM impressed. eh, i've had better |
| Posted by: .4 2006-01-08 19:13 |
| #7 I can top that. |
| Posted by: Wilt Chamberlain 2006-01-08 17:42 |
| #6 Let's do some math. if she is 44, I'd say she has been at it for 30 years, so we have 1600/year. Divide by 365 days and one gets 4.4 johns per day. Every day. For 30 fricking years. I AM impressed. |
| Posted by: Brett 2006-01-08 17:19 |
| #5 50,000? I gotta hook me up wid da lady. I can be her "agent" |
| Posted by: Velvet Jones 2006-01-08 15:13 |
| #4 "Canada, she tells Stephanie Nolen, should help her find a decent job. .... " By my count, with 50,000 men say about $20 a pop, she'd have one million bucks, which is a lot of money in any economy. |
| Posted by: The Angry Fliegerabwehrkanonen 2006-01-08 15:13 |
| #3 What she doesn't have is a good agent. She should be charging the Canadian researchers about $100,000 per visit...maybe more. |
| Posted by: 2b 2006-01-08 13:47 |
| #2 50,000 Johns (how many Canadians?) and all she's got to show for it is some clothes and kitchen utensils? What she doesn't have is a good pricing policy. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2006-01-08 13:39 |
| #1 I read about another case in Brittin. The researchers need to get at this. It will take government intervention, the drug companies |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2006-01-08 13:28 |