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- From: mchaffee@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (Real Life?!?! HA!!)
- Subject: Re: Challenge: Documentation of Nonpromiscuity
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 22:57:21 GMT
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- Arthur_T_Hu@cup.portal.com writes:
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- >On Asian gays, I never said Asian gays get laid less. I said Asians get less
- >gay sex, which really means there are fewer Asian gays. Most surveys I've see
- >show Asian gays have the same HIV+ rate as other gays. Given the lower rate
- >of AIDS, that can only mean fewer gays in the Asian population.
-
- Really? That's assuming that HIV+ Asians are all (or at least mostly) gay.
- What a wonderful message for Asian straights!
-
- And I think instead of saying less gays, you should say less sexually active
- gays. This is moot as your point is invalid given your evidence, but if it
- turns out that there are less Asians having gay sex, chances are it's a
- societal thing (You know, religion, taboos, that sort of thing) rather than
- biological as you seem to imply.
-
- >Hey, if promiscuity isn't bad, why bother denying it? Can't have it both ways
- >Either it's good, and you should have lots of it, or it's bad and there's
- >a limit to how much you should have.
-
- No, see, promiscuity is neither good nor bad. If one person chooses to be
- promiscuous, he is no better or worse than if he were monogamous or celibate.
- We are not challenging your promiscuity argument from a moral standpoint,
- but rather due to the fact that you make an erroneous statement.
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- Claiming that denial of an activity is necessarily a statement of disapproval
- of that activity is pure idiocy. Even you should see that. An example:
- "No, I don't knit." Is this a moral disapproval of knitting?
-
- I'll repeat what a lot of people have said: I think you need a course or four
- in statistics before you start "interpreting" them. As of now, your con-
- clusions have no value outside of entertainment.
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