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From: jay@banzai.PCC.COM (Jay Schuster)
Newsgroups: sci.med.aids
Subject: Re: Attutudes towards AIDS
Keywords: aids, condoms, monogamy, marriage
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Date: 16 Oct 90 14:48:55 GMT
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In <40117@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> aberno@questor.wimsey.bc.ca (Anthony Berno) writes:
>I have what I call my "triple protection plan" to reduce the chances of my 
>acquiring AIDS. It is: ...
>3) Have the "active partner" (God, what a horrible euphamism) pull out 
>before ejaculation. Then, even if there is breakage, the chance of 
>transmission is reduced substantially.

I would hardly recommend this as a way to prevent HIV infection, just as
I would hardly recommend it as a method of birth control, and for the same
reasons.

If you can do it, great, but I wouldn't (I know you weren't recommending
this) rely on just it.

>A simple rule: If you wouldn't do something
>with an HIV+ person, don't do it with anyone.

Amen.
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