Posted on 06/03/2005 11:18:37 AM PDT by FormerLib
Glazov: Dr. Brody, let’s begin with you. Could you kindly comment on this phenomenon and give your perspective on some of the themes I have raised?
Brody: In the early 1980s, in my hometown of New York, it was apparent that AIDS deaths were occurring in transfusees, injecting drug users, and male homosexuals. It was also apparent to the homosexual community that given that affected population, generous federal funding would not be forthcoming. People skilled at public relations developed the "Big Lie": that HIV was a major risk to all, and was readily spread via penile-vaginal intercourse (rather than only by injection or anal intercourse) to otherwise reasonably healthy adults. This lie was understandable given the circumstances at that time. With time, generous funding became available, and the lie was no longer needed for the original purpose.
However, by that time, several political interests became very invested in the Big Lie. Those interests included those who sought to confuse political equality of homosexuals with egalitarian disease susceptibility (I suspect that only a small minority of those promoting that agenda were themselves nominally homosexual). So-called "gender feminists", inspired by the late Andrea Dworkin and her ilk, were keen to vilify intercourse, and hoped to reduce intercourse frequency (in favor of sexual behaviors that were less exclusively heterosexual), as well as to dampen its quality and intimacy (via condom promotion).
In addition to the major role played by the political left, segments of the political right might have been pleased to see a means of enforcing relative sexual continence. People of any political persuasion who, for their own psychological reasons, feared intercourse, also joined the chorus.
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Watch those verbs, willya?
Indeed I shall, Master Bates!
(Yeah, guess that's the first time you've heard that one, huh?)
Ummm, this is a very stupid article...there are many studies showing that women can get aids from heterosexual intercourse. In fact, the largest group of people currently growing in number of infections is African American Heterosexual Women.
You both need to read the article as it addresses the points you brought up. So sorry.
An extraordinarily irresponsible and dangerous article.
And could you be so kind as to supply the links to some of these "many studies". Do avoid the ones discredited in the article, however.
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Perhaps you should read all of it first?
In the case of Africa (and probably other regions with similar hygiene problems), the Big Lie has led not only to impaired sex lives, but to mass death. Not only have resources been wasted, but the effective method of stopping HIV has been largely ignored. This method would involve replacing the current campaigns with mass distribution of syringes (and other puncturing devices) that become disabled after each use. Syringes would also be provided for home use, to replace the popular reusable home injection kits. To the extent that any sexual messages are needed, they must explicitly focus on the one sexual behavior that is a major HIV/AIDS risk for otherwise reasonably healthy persons -- receptive anal intercourse.
I did.
Find them yourself, it won't be hard...aids spreads through all of the above, including vaginal intercourse, anal sex, and the sharing of needles...to suggest otherwise is foolish.
People should abstain from sex until marriage or wear condemns if the choose to have premarital sex. Duh.
Then if you can dispute any of the factual points, please do so and enlighten us all.
Then why wouldn't one expect that 100's of millions in North America, South America, Europe, and Asia to be similarly affected?
If you can't produce them, just be honest and say so.
The article may be stupid, but it isn't as stupid as your comment.
The natural, obvious, and unmentioned reason that so many African women are HIV positive (if that is indeed the case) is they HIV is a harmless passenger virus, riding inhumans for millenia, probably transmitted during gesation, and having Africa as its natural home.
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