this year's model
"I tell them whatever they want to know about sex, be that oral
sex, piss or faeces."
It's all been too much for political activists on both
the right and left. "I've given talks in Catholic schools where
I've been limited to using the word 'penis' three times. Okay, that leaves
dick and cock to use as many times as I like!" Attacks have also
come from militant feminists who have criticised Rebekka's nude modelling,
saying that makes her the worst possible sort of ambassador for sexual
health promotion.
There have also been many TV appearances and Rebekka has a thriving website.
She's always busy and does her best to keep fit and healthy, working out
four times a week and maintaining a strict vegetarian diet. Although she's
got a T-cell count of 800 and her viral load has become detectable, she'll
be on her third combination when she returns to America because her fifth
drug has become resistant to the virus. She admits to being scared, not
least by the toxic side effects.
More immediately she's focused on the UK tour. In typically Californian
fashion, she says it was "awesome" meeting me, the first positive
person she met in the UK. It's her first visit here. Needless to say it's
pouring with rain the day we meet!
Then its back home to California for Christmas, which she hopes to spend
with her partner (also positive and whom she hopes to marry next May)
in a log cabin in the woods.
Good luck to her. She's earned it, not least because she's been so honest
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