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  1. Newsgroups: soc.motss
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!nwnexus!seanews!eskimo!nickn
  3. From: nickn@eskimo.com (Nick Nussbaum)
  4. Subject: Re: safe sex question
  5. Message-ID: <1993Jan23.080639.17969@eskimo.com>
  6. Organization: >>> Eskimo North (206)-FOR-EVER <<<
  7. References: <C12uKE.GBM@world.std.com>
  8. Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 08:06:39 GMT
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  12. Will Johnston writes:
  13. On the other hand, it appears that there is some scientific
  14. evidence of transmission via oral sex with ejaculation. We
  15. can currently count perhaps under 100 of these cases. Do we
  16. then conclude that the risk of HIV-transmission from oral
  17. sex is "vanishingly small"? How small is small enough?
  18. ----
  19. and if I'm not mistaken, about 25 of those cases come
  20. from one study which stands out like a sore thumb.
  21. ... For comparison purposes in discussing this with the
  22. "no risk is acceptable" crowd, is there any estimate
  23. of number of cases of infection due to condom breakage
  24. during anal sex? Certainly there's enough people who've
  25. had a condom fail...
  26. -- 
  27. Nick Nussbaum        nickn@eskimo.com    PO 4738 Seattle,WA 98104
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