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<bshadle@olemiss.edu> The belief that sex with a virgin can cure venereal disease (not just HIV) isn't restricted to South Africa, and is not a new idea. I've seen references to this in Kenya in the 1920s regarding gonorrhea, and I'd suspect that it goes back further. I don't know of any work that has been done on the topic historically.
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