Yet obviously the world is filled with sluts, and the virus--and AIDS with it--has spread to a sizable population.
Oh, and the United States has one of the largest AIDS-ridden populations in the developed world, both in terms of percentage and definitely in numbers (since the United States is easily the most populous developed country, and the second, Japan, has a very low HIV/AIDS rate).
“The AIDS crisis should be overblown, but in some parts of the world (such as Africa and Asia), it isn’t. The virus could have easily been prevented from spreading if people were monogamous, heterosexual, and didn’t have extra/premarital ‘relations.’”
Although I’m not an expert on this subject, I understand that some AIDS in Africa is spread by very poor barefoot doctors who reuse needles. If you’re very poor, it makes sense not to throw things out. Also, I would think that hospitals might not be as antiseptic as they are here because of poverty. Maybe people are promiscuouse there; I really don’t know. Certainly people generally have less formal schooling and much less access to the mass media. Because life in Africa is so different from life here, I think it’s best not to make too many assumptions about how AIDS is transmitted there.