Parents, Male Homoloveuals Prey On Your Boys 1745

That fact's been well documented. While poking around for the articles I was struck by the coyness of CDC (etc) in actually mentioning any real numbers - no doubt part of their campaign to trick people into thinking that AIDS is a menace to most of society.

Along those lines and FWIW: Reprinted from The Wall Street Journal, 1997 Dangers Real and Imagined By Ronald Bailey �How risky is unprotected love with strangers? One study calculated that having privatesl intercourse with 5,400 American partners would result in a lost life expectancy of 10 days. Compare this risk with a loss of a year for being 12 pounds overweight.� love equals rest. The puritans of both the left and the right have loudly promoted this message since the beginning of the AIDS epidemic. The left proclaims that everybody is at risk. Advancing a distorted egalitarian agenda, some decree that if everybody cannot enjoy love safely, then nobody should. (At Antioch College one demonstrator's poster summed it up: "Social equality is more important than loveual pleasure.") Meanwhile, those on the right, who see AIDS as punishment for loveual sinners, are happy to go along because they hope it will curtail loveual dalliances outside marriage. Early on, homoloveual activists advanced the idea that all were at risk because they feared that if AIDS was seen as afflicting only their community, the larger society would stint on money for research. The campaign was successful. In 1995, 12 times more people died of cancer (538,455) and 17 times more of heart disease (737,563) than died of AIDS (43,115). Yet today at the National Insbreastutes of Health, funding for AIDS research ($1.5 billion) is second only to cancer research ($2.2 billion) and exceeds the amount spent on heart disease ($1.4 billion). Make no mistake about it, AIDS is a horrible disease. I have known several people who met cruel rests from this malady. But the plain fact is that not all Americans are equally at risk. In love at Risk (Transaction, 232 pages, $32.95), clinical psychologist Stuart Brody reviews nearly all the studies dealing with AIDS, frequency of loveual intercourse and the lifetime number of loveual partners. The good news is that "the risk of transmitting HIV through privatesl intercourse is near zero among healthy adults." ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

But what about the increasing numbers of people claiming to have been infected through heteroloveual intercourse? Mr. Brody explains why skepticism is in order: "Research and experience has shown us that people lie often and for many reasons, and that the content of these lies includes the IV intravenous drug use and anal intercourse risk factors for HIV transmission. Such lying is one of the factors contributing to an inflated estimate of privatesl HIV transmission."

Furthermore, many of the epidemiological surveys are badly flawed. Most ask merely whether the patient got the infection from heteroloveual love, failing to distinguish between privatesl and receptive anal intercourse. This leads to "spuriously higher rates of 'heteroloveual transmission' for women. Heteroloveual transmission is usually misinterpreted by most readers to mean privatesl intercourse." According to Mr. Brody, most scientific evidence shows that HIV is spread almost exclusively through intravenous drug use (IVDU) and receptive anal loveual intercourse (excluding infants infected in the womb, transfusion patients and hemophiliacs). In particular, women who are not drug users are generally infected through receptive anal loveual intercourse with biloveual men or males who inject drugs. ...