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This really isn’t news for any modern woman who has suffered through a broken heart.

According to a health government study that was reported by Reuters, the survey said that 11% of U.S. men report that they’ve been involved in more than one sexual relationship at a time during the past year.   

Of concern, was these men were also more likely to say their female partners were not monogamous either, and said they drank and used drugs during sex. In addition, men with multiple female partners were more likely than monogamous men to have had sex with another man.

African American and Hispanic men were two to three times more likely to have concurrent sex partners than white males were. 

“This study sheds light on the epidemic of heterosexually transmitted HIV in the U.S. — especially among African Americans and Hispanics,” Dr. Adaora A. Adimora, the study’s lead author, told Reuters Health.

In 2003, African American women were named the fastest growing group of people with HIV making up 67% of newly diagnosed AIDS patients.  In a 2005 Washington Post interview, Dr. Adimora noted that black women weren’t more promiscuous than other women but lived in communities where men were scarce and were least likely to be married.  High incarceration rates of black males along with the low availability of single males in certain areas have enabled black males to have concurrent love lives.

“I didn’t ask him any questions,” Jackson said in the 2005 Washington Post interview. “I didn’t ask him about his sexual history. I asked him if he had been tested, and he said one test came back positive but another one came back negative. I was excited to have this man in my life, because I felt I needed this man to validate who I was.”

Dr. Adimora advises that people, especially women, should avoid partnerships with people who already have partners and use a condom every time you have intercourse.

First it was Joss Stone, then it was Amy Winehouse and now black folks are buzzing about the Filipino teen singing sensation Charice Pempengco. 

 Charice can sing a Beyonce song, Charice can sing Whitney, and Charice can sing Jennifer Holliday.  And she can’t just sing, the little girl can sang.  I think some big black chick is in the background singing for her or someone in the Phillipines has created some kind of singing fembot that will try to take over the world through music.  It’s a puzzle to me that a girl that small can have a voice that big.

What I also find interesting is that some of the hottest singers (Christina Aguilara, Justin Timberlake) or widely touted new singers (like Amy Winehouse) often sing in an old soul way to get attention.  But for the most part, black music has moved past that style.  There was a brief resurgence of it with neo-soul that lasted for a few years, but for the most part tight soul singers like Musiq and Jill Scott don’t get the heavy rotation like their white counterparts.  (Well, maybe Musiq is lately with his song Buddy, but it’s really the weakest of his offerings). 

I wonder if Charice can get a record deal or even be a hit in the states since there really hasn’t been an Asian as a solo singer on the pop charts since Don Ho sang Tiny Bubbles.  But if she can’t it’s not for lack of talent, because like I said before the girl can sang!