Does the pope live in the popemobile bubble all the time? Does he have zero connection with the real world? My friend Dan sent me the following link yesterday: Pope: Christians are most persecuted group: Pressing concern for Christian minorities, especially in the Middle East.

""I tried to prevent (being touched) with my hands but Mrs. Michelle held her hands too far toward me (so) we touched," Information Minister Tifatul Sembiring told tens of thousands of followers on Twitter.

If all you ever read about gay people in Africa is in the western media (including gay media), you would be forgiven for thinking it's one endless horror story.

Southern California's adult film industry requires all performers to be tested regularly for sexually transmittable diseases as a safeguard.

Scientists studying swingers -- straight couples who regularly swap sexual partners and indulge in group sex at organized meeting -- say they have higher rates of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) than prostitutes.

Just a few months after apologising for suggesting gay soldiers were responsible for the Srebrenica massacre, US Army General John Sheehan has said allowing gays to serve openly in the military would have a "devastating" effect.

EDIT: Since STDCarriers was spamming Newsvine, and hence removed from the site, links to that site have been removed from this article.

Yesterday I stumbled across a user account on Newsvine which had me wondering. The account is STDCarriers, and the name was immediately intriguing. So I followed the link to the website being described in the profile bio, and found STD Carriers Disease Control and Prevention Services.

The site explains itself as follows:

STD Carriers was founded as and still is the first public early warning alert system for identifying potential sources of incurable sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). The International Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD) Carrier Registry is database driven list of people with HIV/AIDS, Genital Herpes, HPV, Genital Warts, and Hepatitis C. Our automated content management system (CMS) utilized the power of modern information technology to provide a real time information storage and distribution service that is fully operational 24 hours a day 7 days a week.

So basically, the idea is that if you are thinking of having sexual relations with an individual you can type their name into the site to see if they are listed as suffering from any of the above diseases. This immediately raises some flags for me, so I thought I'd bring a discussion here to see what other people think.

The body of a 44-year-old man is a bioterror weapon, according to a Michigan county prosecutor who is charging Daniel Allen, with "possession or use of a harmful biological device" for biting his neighbor during a neighborhood fight.

An AIDS advocacy group is bringing labor complaints against nine porn talent agencies for advertising actors who are willing to have unprotected sex on camera.

"UIC student Jason Connell used the appearance of the hate group to raise money for queer rights groups such as Human Rights Campaign, International AIDS Foundation and Chicago based Jerusalem Open House.