A sports memorabilia collector in China had amassed 5,000 unused condoms stamped with the motto of the Olympics in English and in Chinese: “faster, higher, stronger” to be auctioned off in batches to the highest bidder in an attempt raise money for the awareness of HIV/AIDS. It was first time that condoms have been sold at public auction in China.  Now a local Chinese government is opening a gay bar in order to compliment the STD prevention and outreach. With all the bad press China usually receives in our media for bordering on dictatorship, it gives hope that other societies throughout the world can gradually self correct without the bossy intervention of America.

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