The Kingdom of Lanna and the HIV Epidemic

men need not be affected by practicing safer sex and using condoms, the exploitation of
women for men's sexual pleasure may be affected, and this too, may have a liberating effect
on both men and women. There is already evidence that the younger generation of northern
Thai men are having less commercial sex, more sexual relationships with longer lasting and
unpaid partners, and have had fewer sexually transmitted diseases than men in their age group
only three to four years ago.(20) Such changes will be essential if the 800 year anniversary
of Chiang Mai is to be' celebrated not in despair but in happiness and prosperity.

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