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Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

I was browsing around a blog called 'Rantings of a Sandmonkey', written by an Egyptian. I came across this entry and just had to share it.

The blog address is http://www.sandmonkey.org/2006/09/

Yesterday a friend of mine told me a really funny/disturbing story. Apparently she had this friend who works for a UN sponserd orgnaization in Saudi, and who was working on getting the Saudis to grant approval for government-sponserd dirstribution to sexual contraceptives in order to combat STD's in Saudi. The Saudis rejected on the grounds that Saudis don't need STD protection, because if anyone engages in STD causing sexual intercourse, it is the foreigners who live there.

So her friend, in order to prove otherwise, did a study on camels to see how many of them have syphlis (I am not joking). The study results showed that 20% of saudi camels do have syphlis, which can only be transmitted from man-on-camel sex. The Saudis, when confronted with those results, argued that it must be the foreigners who are giving the camels syphlis and not the saudi men. So the kid had to conduct another study to show that the camels reside in areas that are only populated with saudis and that are far from the ones where the foreigners reside. He actually sat down and wrote stuff like: On average, a foriegner will come in contact of 1.2 camels a year, while a saudi will come in contact with 5.6 camels a year.

The Saudis still claim there is no sufficient evidence that the camel syphlis isn't all caused by foriegn men who just like to have sex with camels.

ChopChaeJoe · Joined: 05 Mar 2006 Location: Seoul

about the funniest thread title that I've seen.

neandergirl · Joined: 23 Jun 2005

What's the basis for saying syphilis in camels could only result from human/camel sex? Koala populations (just one of many species that get the disease) are seriously threatened by chlamydia - lots of diseases/strains are found across species lines.

Several studies have been done (1984,1992) on the prevalence of syphilis in the Kingdom (most found it be a common STI, just as it is in other countries, although the non-venereal type is more common than venereal there where the venereal form is found almost exclusively in urban populations) so I'm a little sceptical.

edited for number agreement Embarassed

gang ah jee · Joined: 14 Jan 2003 Location: city of paper

gang ah jee · Joined: 14 Jan 2003 Location: city of paper

As a public service to the board I have made an animated gif of a crying Saudi camel for use whenever the plight of Saudi camels is literally or metaphorically discussed.

Feel free to use it any time.

neandergirl · Joined: 23 Jun 2005

Has anyone spared a thought for the poor Aussie camels? Has anyone checked to see if they are burdened by both chlamydia and syphilis? (STIs being notorious for making one more susceptible to others and all).

I don't see any awareness ribbon or gif for them. The disregard and callousness regarding their possible plight shown in this thread sickens me. There are muscians on the board why are they organizing a benefit? Someone needs to do something!

guangho · Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 8:36 am Post subject:

Mmmm......camels.....