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Subject: Intentional Transmission of AIDS
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Date: 20 Oct 90 02:25:44 GMT
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The idea arresting "Johns" and prostitutes is somehow
protecting people from AIDS is rediculous. According to
a recent UCLA study of Nevada *legal* brothels the 
transmission of AIDS there is nil.  I personally feel the
better solution to the AIDS problem with prostitution is
to legalize and license prostitution, requiring HIV positive
prostitutes to let their customers know they are HIV positive
(the same might be applied to Johns also). This approach
to tend to segregate the HIV positive and negative populations
and encourage safer sex among the HIV negative population. It
would also eliminate much of the incentive for HIV+ prostitutes
to ply their trade among the HIV- population since they could
openly solicity HIV+ customers (and there are a lot more HIV+
gay and straight men in the US than HIV+ women).