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From: news@CS.UCLA.EDU (Mr. News)
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Subject: Intentional Transmission of AIDS
Summary: "Intentional transmission" euphemism for blame game
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Date: 9 Sep 90 05:51:32 GMT
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In article <38625@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU>, ames!ames!claris!portal!cup.portal.com!rburns@uunet.UU.NET writes:
> Does anyone have any figures on what percentage of 
> people who are now getting AIDS from sexual encounters 
> are in fact getting the disease from people who know
> they are HIV+ vs. those who don't know they are HIV+?

With apologies if this was not your intent - BUT everytime I've ever
heard this brought up it has been (sooner or later) in the context of
"blame" morally or legally.  It is as if people think that someone
else is supposed to be responsible for their own well being.  

As the safer sex information put out by many of our local agencies
points out  "It's your body, and your responsibility to protect it."
Personally I think someone who is HIV+ ought to tell sex partners
before anything is done, but that's a personal call.  I can't see
anything but trouble in the direction of trying to make that a
"should".  More information and education can surely be done so that
people will know what precautions to take - no argument that more
needs to be done.  But it strikes me as somewhat counter productive at
best (and oppressive at worst) to get into trying to prove (whether
for a study or in court) who said what to whom "between the sheets".
-- 
Bob Culmer - Dallas        | "Hearts will never be practical until 
Somewhere over the rainbow |  they can be made unbreakable." - Wizard
..in the Land of OZ       | "But I still want one." - Tin Man
            {mic,void,egsner}!ozdaltx!bob