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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Subject: Re: AIDS and those damn democrats
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.120536.26691@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments, Inc
- References: <1992Jul23.153126.22572@aio.jsc.nasa.gov> <1992Jul23.213335.7452@mksol.dseg.ti.com> <1992Jul24.044031.2983@cco.caltech.edu>
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 12:05:36 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul24.044031.2983@cco.caltech.edu> walkera@cco.caltech.edu (Walker Aumann) writes:
- >mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) writes:
- >
- >>That's right, by God! If we all stop having sex (which is the primary
- >>method of transmission), there won't be an AIDS problem after this
- >>generation. Of course, there also won't be a generation after this
- >>generation, but that's just a minor detail.
- >
- >However, if two people who don't have AIDS have sex, then there's no way for
- >the act itself to create the virus (or maybe this is the part that the
- >scientists are missing - an evil Republican plot to kill everyone who has
- >sex out of wedlock). Thus, two people in a monogamous relationship, like at
- >least some of the people left in the country will be around to produce the next
- >generation.
-
- Gee, so is what you're suggesting that everyone should stop having sex
- for just the next 20 years or so until we know just who it is who has
- AIDS? Sorry, but a current mongamous relationship is no guarantee
- that one of the participants didn't get the virus from somewhere else.
- Or are you saying that only people who are virgins should be allowed
- to have sex (assuming that they can avoid getting the virus some other
- way, of course, like from a needle stick at work because one of them
- is a doctor).
-
- >
- >>In article <1992Jul23.153126.22572@aio.jsc.nasa.gov> noyes@sweetpea.jsc.nasa.gov writes:
- >>>
- >>>I don't think that God designed the human anus to recieve a man's penis
- >>>so it is no wonder that problems occur when this type of behavior is common
- >>>place. I also don't think God put monkeys, and gerbals in the
- >>>food chain for the purpose of human copulation! But who am I to
- >>>say?
- >
- >>Yes, who ARE you to say? And wherever did you get the idea that
- >>that's how AIDS spreads. AIDS spreads via sexual intercourse (any
- >>kind) and through contact with blood or blood products.
- >
- >Anal sex has a higher transmission rate than normal sexual intercourse.
-
- That's right, and any sex has a higher rate of transmission than no
- sex, which was the idiotic statement I was responding to in the first
- place. So, just where do you want to draw the line on 'risky'
- activity? If it makes sense to ban one (and the original argument was
- 'unGodly', not a higher risk of transmission), then it certainly makes
- sense to ban them all. These are the same people who say we shouldn't
- teach about condoms because there is still some small amount of risk,
- after all.
-
- --
- "Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live
- in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
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