Kevin Faddis points us to yet another odd Zambia-based Harvey Tiles billboard which reads, “A roof without HARVEY TILES can’t make your mind free the same as sex with a baby can’t cure HIV/AIDS.” Initially, one might react to this buy saying…oh…WTF but there’s a reason behind the choice of words on the billboard. The man who wrote the copy explained on an ESPN site saying, “There is a myth some people believe that if you have sex with a virgin, you are bound to be safe from AIDS. It’s a rumor that started up here about a year ago. And then they started bringing people in to the police because they had been sleeping with babies. The slogan is to remind people not to sleep with babies. The owner sells tiles and, at the same time, he educates people.”
OK, then. Gross but, then again, it’s a different world in Zambia than it is in many other parts of the world and if it takes a shocking headline like this to stop people from having sex with babies then we say “good job” Harky Tiles.
