Of casual sex and morbid fear of HIV tests

BY BILL ODUNGA

Sex is a way of life in campus. At any given time in universities, there is a student getting laid. So popular is the activity, that there are certain unwritten rules.

For starters, if you find a tie hanging out of a doorknob, please, do not knock. Some hanky-panky business is going on in there. Secondly, if you hear loud music coming from a room, make no mistake assuming that those inside have impaired eardrums. The volume is kept up to drown the moans that sometimes can be disturbingly loud.

Hormones

Thirdly, if in the middle of the night you happen to hear creaking and squeaking noise from the next room, kindly invest in a pair of earplugs and pray for the poor bed. 

In campus, nobody goes around policing who does what, where and how? Abstinence is old dilapidated gospel that is coughing through an oxygen mask to survive in a world where hormones rather rationality dictates behaviour.  One would therefore assume that, in order to stay safe, medical check-ups are presumed a necessary evil.

I suppose that is why the UoN school administration decided to embark on a free HIV&AIDS testing and counselling. A plausible initiative, if you ask me. Recently, they pitched camp in front of the hostel entrance as well moved door to door to sensitize people on matters HIV, in furtherance of a very noble objective.

However, there is no diplomatic way that comrades can work with the administration. The relationship is always sour and antagonistic. And for me, the only thing that sickens me more than a bitching comrade is probably a visible panty line. An argument arose as to the way the programme was being rolled out — some claiming that it was conducted unprofessionally.

Comrades discredited the campaign because they moved door to door, citing intrusion into their private affairs. Some even went further to say that it is the administration’s clandestine attempt to establish the prevalence rates of HIV in campus.  To them, this is wrong.

Prudent

What baloney! Considering how widespread irresponsible sex is in campuses, I will support the administration on this one. It is necessary that individuals know their status given the lustful tendencies of comrades. It will only help comrades to take precaution.

I guess it’s not prudent to conduct a HIV test in public, but hey, we are grown-ups here. Nobody asked for privacy and was denied. Instead of casting aspersions on the sanctity of everything that the school does, how about taking a step back and looking at the bigger picture? AIDS is real- it kills. That is no old wives tale there. But then I guess some people might just have to get infected or die in order to learn the hard way (if there is any learning in the after-life).