(Previously, PSN loses a possible boyfriend over an HIV seminar he gate-crashes, and gets in trouble for using the word “buto” in a Teenage Pregnancy talk.)
YOU WANT to use “pitoy” because you think “buto” is dirty?
Think again.
If it is so dirty, why do women and enlightened gay men put it in their mouths?
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And which nurse — male, female, gay, lesbian, Protestant or Catholic – if they are genuine nurses, haven’t held a buto in their hands?
And pushing this further, if buto is dirty, why do women and gay men want this inside of them?
In fact, why do some so-called men want to try and have what women and gay men are having for breakfast?
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To be fair, I got a lot of supporters who say that the words do not matter until they reach the listeners’/readers’ dirty minds.
To be fair, the students didn’t call me vulgar because they know how angry I was that the speakers failed to mention, or did not know, that there are 38 HIV/AIDS cases in our town at the beginning of the year.
That the number is down to 36, since two died in the last six months.
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In Dumangas, and I say this with arrogance and pride, the teenagers trust me more than they trust the rural health team.
They know they can get condoms from me.
They know I can refer them for treatment when they have gonorrhea, which is the current STI epidemic.
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When I screamed, at another point of the HIV talk, that gonorrhea has reached epidemic proportions among teenagers in Dumangas, the health workers present were shocked.
But the students in the audience know what I was talking about.
They know how many boys writhe in pain while urinating in the school lavatories.
They know whose vaginas smell like rotten fish.
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I arrived in Iloilo on August 3; the talk was on Aug. 9.
How did I know about the gonorrhea problem in six days?
Because teenagers, and students, talk to me.
Because I talk to health professionals.
Because I talk to the gay boys and parlor queens of Dumangas.
They know they can trust, and rely, on me.
So ef you for calling me vulgar!
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Before the seminar, I talked to the lead officer of the program from the province.
I criticized their flyer/handout for using “paghilawas” as translation for sex.
S/he told me, “We just updated these, sir. And we are using the updated terminologies.”
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I told her/him point-blankly, “Then you are wasting money and government resources on useless updates.”
Only people aged 60 and above would know what effing paghilawas is.
Everybody knows it as “itut”.
If your flyers are to be useful, and understandable to teenagers, you better use the word itut, or just sex.
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But it’s best to use itut to mean sex.
Let them feel for the things they do in secret!
Let them know that you know what they’re doing.
Let’s talk.
But let’s be real.
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With the continued increase in the number of AIDS/HIV cases in my hometown, and Western Visayas, while the numbers in the rest of the world are starting to go down, I am no more Mr. Nice Guy.
Call me vulgar.
Call me sh*t.
But let me do my (thankless Christian) job, and save lives.
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I dare you to sue me with obscenity charges based on the use of buto, itut, and similar words in this article.
I dare you to be stupid!
Go ahead, sue me.
I really want you to be stupid.
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When I finally got the microphone during that HIV/AIDS seminar in the local high school, I did what the previous speakers could not do.
I declared: I am Peter Solis Nery; and I am HIV negative.
That got the students’ attention.
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(To be continued as “If You Lie, You Die” on Monday)/PN
