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While the risk factor for women is quite possibly higher for women than men in hetero contact, the statistics fumento is using (from CDC) don't support that it is anywhere near as difficult for men to get AIDS from women as you imply.

http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/stats/hasr1402/table3.htm

Men getting AIDS from women is about 4,000 to 5,000 per year and women getting AIDS from men is about 6,300 to 7,500 per year.

What is your source for your estimated number (500-1000) of risk encounters necessary for transmission?

>>>While the risk factor for women is quite possibly higher for women than men in hetero contact

Vastly higher. Compare unheard-of (men) to difficult (women)

>>...the statistics fumento is using (from CDC) don't support that it is anywhere near as difficult for men to get AIDS from women as you imply. Men getting AIDS from women is about 4,000 to 5,000 per year and women getting AIDS from men is about 6,300 to 7,500 per year.

Correction, that is Men CLAIMING to have gotten AIDS heterosexually. Who would lie about being a junkie or bisexual? The CDC makes no effort to validate these claims. The NYC health department used to, and they ALWAYS found that the patient was lying. One of the comments above recounts the joke.

>>What is your source for your estimated number (500-1000) of risk encounters necessary for transmission?

Professor Padian, UC Berkeley. Search the web, or go straight to fumento.com, which will cite it.