Dr Love

The online version of the normally staid Indonesian daily, Kompas, offers "Dr. Love's Column", hosted by Dr Wei Siang Yu alias Dr Love. In his profile, Dr. Love notes that he works as "Medical Doctor, Medical Inventor, and Bio-techno-preneur," and his areas of expertise include "Reproductive Health, Sexual Health, and Bio-communication" (whatever that is!). Many of the questions answered in the column are mildly 'stimulating', for example from a 71-year-old who claims he masturbates every day (good for him!), and the women who, having had sex twice with different men on one night and is now pregnant, asks how she can decide who is the father. Since these are all outside my area of expertise, I'm sure the answers from our Bio-communicator are most appropriate.

But now there is a question from someone who had recently shared eating utensils during a meal with a friend who was later diagnosed with AIDS. He was very worried that he had become infected. Dr. Love's response? Most unlikely, as long as he didn't have any mouth sores.

If our experts in sexual health are so poorly informed, what hope have we for other doctors?

Babé