[and the horse you rode in on]

If they stick their member into sewer pipes until they finally become sick--- don't lean on the rest of us for sympathy.

I don't want them leaning on us for any reason. This stuff is contageous on contact.

I think the important point is that we need to consider all health clubs, gyms and public toilets "Hot Zones". Any place your flesh may touch a surface other's bare flesh has touched.

[carlo3b]

A little over a year ago, a teacher at my sons school was giving out extra credits to kids that would volunteer at a local Hospice center, overwhelmingly stacked with these poor fatally ill AIDS sufferers!  She, a lesbian, lead them to believe that they those who went were somehow much better than those who refused!  This ...a typical ploy, raising the bar on compassion, and lowering the bar on morality!
Some kids that were borderline students felt they had to go to either earn the extra credits, or at least boost themselves  in the eye of their teacher. I went to the principal and demanded that this teacher get a permission slip from the parents of the students that she was illegally shuffling back and forth to this hospital... It did not a bit of good, so I went to the school board president and it was stopped within the same hour!
The problem with AIDS, is that the disease is one of an absence of the body's ability to fight off any type of attack from within or airborne.. thus the resurgence of TB.. etc that was all but extinguished worldwide 20 years ago.
My problem was grounded in Science, not bigotry or homophobia, it was my natural defense of children, a duty and normal reaction born in the fabric of a man, and father.