Taxpayers paid for AIDS-prevention projects that encouraged sexual activity — in direct violation of federal guidelines — and met the "legal definition of obscene material," an inspector general's report has concluded.
Workshops with names such as "Booty Call" and "Great Sex" were sponsored by the San Francisco Stop AIDS Project, which received nearly $700,000 in federal funding last year through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), according to a report by Janet Rehnquist, inspector general for the Department of Health and Human Services.
The "Great Sex" workshop "appears to directly promote sexual activity, which is not consistent with CDC's basic principles," the IG's report said.
The "Booty Call" workshop, which "discusses the taboos of anal eroticism," does discuss "the harmful effects of promiscuous activity," but also "appears to focus equally on, and possibly to promote, sexual activity," Miss Rehnquist concluded.
The IG's study of CDC-funded AIDS prevention programs was ordered by Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy G. Thompson in response to complaints from members of Congress, including Rep. Mark Souder, Indiana Republican, and Rep. Joseph R. Pitts, Pennsylvania Republican
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