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- From: rufus@cis.umassd.edu (Rui N Campos)
- Subject: Re: AIDS and those damn democrats
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.221708.10495@cis.umassd.edu>
- Organization: University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
- References: <1992Jul23.155922.21844@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu> <1992Jul23.222741.1@msscc.med.utah.edu> <1992Jul24.094829.136@cheshire.oxy.edu> <1992Jul24.145244.2414@athena.cs.uga.edu>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 22:17:08 GMT
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- In <1992Jul24.145244.2414@athena.cs.uga.edu> tedr@athena.cs.uga.edu (Ted Kalivoda) writes:
- >The Asian crisis should be interesting to analyze. The data now is
- >probabaly very unreliable. What do we know of drug use? Of anal sex with
- >prostitution? Of the amount of homosexual risk activity? I would like to
- >see some tough studies done on the breakdown of sexual activity and drug
- >use.
-
- Would you like to know why there is no such study? Well, according to a
- recent issue of Discover magazine (I can't remember the date but it deals the
- issue is dedicated to the topic of sex research) There were about 3 such
- detailed reports that were to be conducted in the next year. The study was
- very comprehensive, and its goal was to provide a measure of the sexual
- activity of Americans (the last such study was conducted in the late 30's
- I believe, and we have been using this same data since) this way we could
- not only understand American sexuall behaviour, but we would also get some
- clues as to how the AIDS virus is spread among sexually active people.
- Sounds great doesn't it? Well, funding for the research was withdrawn all
- three times because of our good friend Jesse Helms. It seems Mr Helms felt
- that such a study would cause people to be tolerant of homosexuals (GASP!),
- and it would allow gays and lesbians to take over the moral fabric of this
- country. I expect as much from Mr Helms, but the rest of congress should
- have let him howl and yammer, and kept up with the study. Anyhow, I'm just
- paraphrasing the article, If you are interested I suggest that you read the
- article for yourself. I know it made me incensed(sp?)!
-
- >As for Amercia, the heterosexual proportion of those infected with HIV is
- >rising for the most part because the IVDA and Homosexual proportions are
- >decreasing, by the result of both information and death.
-
- You forgot one other thing: the homosexual community has been very quick to
- adapt to safe sex techniques, and the heterosexual community has done nothing
- more than lip service.
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