Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!ucla-cs!jay@banzai.PCC.COM From: jay@banzai.PCC.COM (Jay Schuster) Newsgroups: sci.med.aids Subject: Re: (2524) Re: I CONFESS MY IGNORANCE... Message-ID: <39529@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> Date: 1 Oct 90 01:20:08 GMT References: <39348@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> Sender: news@CS.UCLA.EDU Organization: The People's Computer Company, Williston, VT Lines: 14 Approved: phil@wubios.wustl.edu Note: Copyright 1990 by Daniel R. Greening. Permission granted for Note: non-commercial reproduction. Archive-number: 2561 In <39348@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> IABF%SNYCENVM.BITNET@oac.ucla.edu (Amy Francis) writes: >Wouldn't the person on "top" in a male-male homosexual encounter only >be able to contract the disease if he had a cut or lesion on his penis? >That's what I thought. Any man who has jerked off in the shower with soap knows that after ejaculation, soap gets sucked into your urethra and burns. The theory goes that during unprotected anal intercourse, after ejaculation, your penis sucks up some of the surrounding fluid, which probably contains blood. This blood then just sits on the mucous membranes in your urethra and gives you the exposure that HIV needs. -- Jay Schuster uunet!uvm-gen!banzai!jay, attmail!banzai!jay The People's Computer Company `Revolutionary Programming'