Therefore, 26 Digital focuses on that study as a phenomenon that we cannot ignore as a society. Las Tunas - The Cubadebate website reproduced part of the research, delving into the sexual preferences of Cubans. Among the valuable information shared by the study in question, this reporter was struck by the data that speak of transactional sex in today's Cuban society. Although this scourge is inherent to the entire universe and has never been completely alien to the daily life of this archipelago, it is not treated as a phenomenon in itself within the Cuban press.
This province remains among the least affected; however, this does not mean that such a panorama is not present. Something that becomes more complex, as experts say, because it is mostly practiced by young people and by men who have sex with other men MSM , the two sectors of the population most affected here by the AIDS pandemic.
Although in the eight municipalities of Las Tunas, to some extent, live those who decide to have sex in exchange for money or other benefits transactional sex , there is no doubt that this is the city with the largest population in the territory, which deals with the dilemma more constantly. Even those who live in nearby demarcations or rural areas of the locality, venture late at night, sometimes exchanging a little sex for some pesos and others just for a beer. This type of practice, often unprotected, increases the risk of spreading these diseases.
We know that there is a circulation of children under 15 at late hours of the night in specific places. In the same way, sometimes they do not enter the discos, but they are in the surroundings. However, they are already moving to other spaces. Youth have the characteristic of being very itinerant.
Besides, the park of the artisans, located near the railway terminal. The biggest flow begins from Thursday until Sunday dawn. They are people who first go to their meeting places, which are the places where they know and establish the guidelines of the transaction and from there they move on to sex. Many neighbors complain about the little park behind the Provincial Hygiene Center, for example, a place devoid of light, where such noises are reported when it is dawn.
