A new AIDS memorial in Palm Springs, California is stirring controversy, due to its similarity to an orifice which is often people’s first point of contact with the disease.
From one side, the $500,000 memorial looks like a generic, donut-like modernist sculpture engraved with a swirling pattern – but from the other side it resembles an anus.
“The backside of the proposed memorial looks like a graphic depiction of the backside of a human being,” said local activist Gene Brake.
“That’s definitely a butthole,” remarked one social media user.
While HIV and AIDS can be contracted through vaginal sex and needle-sharing, they are most commonly contracted through male-on-male anal sex, with gay and bisexual men accounting for a grossly disproportionate share of the infected.
The lifetime risk of contracting HIV for gay men is one in six, rising to one in four among gay Latino men and an astonishing one in two among gay black men, according to data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC).
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