For disasters: send money, not sex toys
There's an interesting and darkly funny article about disaster donations featuring RPI professor Jose Holguin-Veras over at Fast Company. Holguin-Veras studies what gets donated to relief efforts -- and to what effect. It turns out that people recovering from a hurricane don't need sex toys (not that stopped a truckload of them from being donated). When in doubt: just send money.
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I wrote about this a couple weeks ago in The Record (see link below). His research is pretty fascinating. I suppose if anything, the donated sex toys would have provided some comic relief, if not the immediate help hurricane victims were searching for. Then again, maybe they all needed a little fun, too.
http://troyrecord.com/articles/2012/01/09/news/doc4f0bb11523e71104026148.txt?viewmode=fullstory
... said Katie Roberts on Jan 26, 2012 at 2:05 PM | link