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Donellis from St Maarten did the Caribbean proud today when at the last minute he was able to prepare an interesting discussion which opened the panel "Sex and Sexuality : Youth Perspectives on Pleasure and Prevention : What do we need in 2010?" . This discussion he framed as a Caribbean gay man's perspective on a gay man's needs on pleasure and prevention in 2010.


Donellis started his discussion by using this picture (from http://www.dvorak.org) in which he cleverly promoted St Maarten to the very large audience - as the place where you could get closest to an airplane when it is landing and taking off; and one which is a beautiful tourist destination .

He also said for him the fence represented the boundaries of the sub-consciousness of young people, especially LGBT young people, and that the plane represents the messages about safer sex which are way above some of the youth. His concerns were that there is no portrayal of LGBT persons and situations in messages for safer sex. He posited that the policy makers relied too much on the views of some religious groups and that sex education was underdeveloped, and that Caribbean people were made to feel ashamed about their sexuality and that sex was dirty.

"Do you like porn" he asked the audience, and he went on to talk about how porn producers seemed to be producing porn without condoms giving the impression that safe sex cannot be enjoyed as much as bareback sex.

The panel featured an emotional presentation from a young HIV positive man who said he kept questioning what would happen if his girlfriend who he loves got infected. The other presentations looked at sexual and reproductive rights in Paraguay, the experience of a transwoman from Namibia and the revelations from a young woman from Lebanon who said she did not tell her mother what she was coming to talk about.

The people from the Caribbean who attended the session thought it was an intensive one, with one Trinidadian woman saying she thought it was the best she had attended for the conference.