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The topic here is supposed                        
to be about fear of             Whenever I try to talk
diseases like AIDS used as      about this, usually someone
a smoke screen to cover a       accuses me of denial.
more generalized fear of
sex.

                                                    Try and reserve judgement
                                                    for a minute, we can point
                                                    fingers at each other
                                                    later.


                                            I always had a hard time
                                            understanding why non IV
                                            using heterosexuals in the
                                            US are supposed to worry
                                            about AIDS so much... Blood
                                            and Semen are the two
                                            transmission fluids, no? So
                                            how is a straight guy 
                                            supposed to get it?

                                            Presuming I'm not into
                                            drinking menstral blood,
                                            why would I worry about
                                            cunnilinguis with a woman?
                     
                                                                     
                                                                    
((Some old air.bboard                                               
posts, follow... ))                                                 
                     
Speaking of urine, does
anybody have a good
reference for the quantites             Check: AIDS hotline.
of HIV in various fluids?               I'm not sure I'll trust
				        it, though.
I've got a strong suspicion
that the quantity in
cervical fluid and in		  
salvia is about comparable,                                        
which makes me wonder why                                          
they tell you to watch out                                         
for cunnilinguis, but don't                                        
recommend condoms for                                              
kissing.  One of these		  				 
days, I'll look it up.

As for precious bodily
fluids: I understand that
the concentration of HIV in
semen greatly exceeds that
in saliva.  What I want to
know is why it took them so
long to discover that
there's HIV in cervical
fluid.  Since the
transmission rate among
lesbians looks *very* low,
I'd guess the concentration
must be pretty low.  If so,
why were they pushing the
dental dam business in the        It's kind of interesting
first place?                      how few people have even
                                  heard about "dental dams".
                                  It seemed to me like the
                                  word was out all over the
                                  place, but even very the
                                  intelligent & well-informed
                                  seem to have missed it.

There's a tendency to
assume that "abnormal" sex
must be "unsafe".



It's the usual problem with
the idiot news media, and
maybe the health
organizations that decide
what "safe sex" is, they'd
rather tell us things like
"Do this/Don't do that"
rather than worry our
pretty heads with data.



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