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- From: gsmith@lauren.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de (Gene W. Smith)
- Subject: Re: AIDS Question:
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.095422.7892@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
- Sender: news@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (NetNews)
- Organization: IWR, University of Heidelberg, Germany
- References: <C17yKL.K1q@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1993Jan22.005709.12728@midway.uchicago.edu> <74346@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 09:54:22 GMT
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- In article <74346@cup.portal.com> Arthur_T_Hu@cup.portal.com writes:
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- >I just got run off soc.motss for finding out that no one there
- >accepts the statment "gays on the average have more sexual
- >partners than heterosexuals", despite the lack of anyone producing
- >a documented study that shows the contrary.
-
- You didn't find that out. You only found out that people don't want
- to discuss this issue there, because that isn't what the group is for.
- If you want to discuss political questions having to do with gay vs
- straight, try alt.politics.homosexuality.
-
- >You also can't argue with the 10% figure despite the fact that every
- >modern study shows it's a lot less than that, or that homosexuality
- >can be treated in many cases, or that mainstream psychology still
- >holds that homosexuality is an abberation or perversion.
-
- Modern studies still come up with varying numbers. The statement
- about mainstream psychology is false.
-
- >soc.motss holds that reducing the number of partners is not a feasible
- >strategy for HIV reduction, and it is immoral to advocate this.
-
- "Soc.motss" is not a person. Certain ideas are widely held there, one
- of them being that it is not a forum for attacking gay people.
-
-
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- Gene Ward Smith/Brahms Gang/IWR/Ruprecht-Karls University
- gsmith@kalliope.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de
-