Maybe you could make this generalisation about your generation, but there are lot of pogguti in Malta so they are hanging on for dear life.

Your comment got me to think of my generalisation, but don’t take me seriously.

The reason why women like to sleep with other men has little to do with women’s ability to be malicious. Female maliciousness is but a symptom of their condition. Women preselect like juvenile men do and often without any code or principle (like boys usually have), but adult Men select and their criteria for sex is disproportionately lower than that for Long-term material.
This is how you find men who make a 6 figure wage, 6 Foot tall and well-built with a 6 pack having sex with a female cleaner who is short and stump, with an uwijja-tghaddi face, no qualifications to her name and with very poor social background – barely scrounging together a minimum wage.

Men select by a rating, but women select by an ideal standard often based on their parameters set by their closest female group.

Attached men on the other hand, are preselected by women and need no perfection rating/nor the approval of their friends. Women’s criteria is high for both hookups and long-term. Women are hypergamous by nature and often times end up with a man that is out of their league and they will put up with anything to keep him, and loose their shit when they do loose him to a younger, prettier and smarter girl. Women that choose to settle with a lower-status man will be unhappy as well as she will constantly compare him to these top-tier men, unless of course he has a very large penis and this is why most women can never be happy unless they a) only have sex with very few men – best case 1 [traditional society] or b) Kick men out of their lives, completely [modern society].

The impact on the statistics of men having sex with men, despite their being in the minority, is something to think about. It means that the prevalence of HIV among men having sex with men (not the same thing as ‘gay’ because it doesn’t include women who are gay) is much higher than the figures above seem to indicate.

That is true. I fully agree with you. But once that person is infected with HIV, then the healthcare system is obliged to treat him irrespective of whether this is self inflicted or not.

I am speaking purely from a “business” point of view. The national health service suffers more by treating HIV rather than offering means to prevent it.

Here in UK people can apply for a card to be issued free condoms – NHS funding a non-taxed risky behaviour to prevent self-inflicted disease rather than having to pay for the treatment.

Good answer. Deserves an A. Go to the front of the class.

Take obesity. The adults are beyond salvation. But the children and teenagers can still change their lifestyle habits.

Do we target them? Nope. Ghax id-diskors fuq il-hxuna mhux #positive, u ahna rridu zghazagh #pozittivi.

STDs? Ditto. A peeling poster in next to the hand-dryer in the gents’ at Havana, when you’re pissed at four o’clock in the morning, won’t be much help.

And let us not forget Malta’s biggest killer: car accidents.

Ever seen anyone breathalysed on their way out of Paceville?

Ghax inkella bad for business. How else can you get to the restaurant or bar, and drive the GDP up?

I don’t know whether the sexual equivalents of Linkedin are to blame. But I’ve noticed a change in attitude. Yes, I’m ancient, and I was around in the 1980s and 1990s, when AIDS was to the world what ISIS is today. It was the big menace, and you knew that HIV would kill you.

Then they invented anti-retroviral drugs, and everyone became very laid back about the disease. It no longer makes the headlines. The WHO’s “acceptance” campaigns, and Sedqa and other do-gooders’ campaigns backfired. From acceptance of HIV-positive persons (they won’t let me say ‘patients’) it became an outright embrace of the disease, and the thinking became ‘HIV is not AIDS/You can have HIV and still live a healthy life’. The results were catastrophic.

Road to hell, good intentions and all that. Same as all other ‘acceptance’ campaigns. Fat acceptance. Drug acceptance. Fottimenti acceptance (the “min m’ghandux dnub” mantra).

And the problem arises not because the men are gay but because they are men. Men tend to be bigger risk-takers than women and, in sexual relationships between men, there are no women to tell them otherwise.