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Condoms in Explicit Sex Scenes Wanted

December 17, 2001 8:27 am EST

BRASILIA, Brazil (Reuters) - A Brazilian congresswoman is pushing for a bill that would require TV and movie actors to don condoms before engaging in explicit sexual acts.

The bill, making its way through Brazil's Congress, proposes a ban on imports, sales or the reproduction of all images of sexual acts -- including oral sex -- that do not show a condom. The ban would extend to TV, cinema, videos and magazines.

Nair Xavier, the bill's sponsor, argues the condoms-only stance would support Brazil's campaign against AIDS, which has been held up as a model for developing countries in slashing infection rates.

The bill, which has been approved by a congressional commission and is expected to reach Congress' floor in 2002, would complement legislation recently passed that obliges pornographic films and videos to carry a health warning, advising viewers to use a condom to protect against AIDS.

"The inclusion of this warning is worthless if the actors in the film have sexual relations without using a condom," Joao Paulo Borges, Xavier's aide and the bill's author, said on Friday.

If approved, the bill would serve as another weapon in Brazil's battle against AIDS. Thanks to aggressive education and awareness campaigns, Brazil has managed to keep infection rates to less than 1 percent of the population.

The number of new AIDS cases fell to 15,000 in 2000 from 20,000 new cases annually in 1996, recent data showed.

-- Anonymous, December 19, 2001


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