Xref: utzoo sci.med.aids:2464 soc.motss:40120 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!ucla-cs!news From: 2un@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Maverick) Newsgroups: sci.med.aids,soc.motss Subject: Re: Unsafer Sex? Message-ID: <1990Nov29.221153.10405@cs.ucla.edu> Date: 29 Nov 90 21:34:50 GMT References: <1990Nov29.192745.6713@cs.ucla.edu> Sender: news@cs.ucla.edu (Mr. News) Followup-To: sci.med.aids Organization: Purdue University Lines: 29 Approved: phil@wubios.wustl.edu Note: non-commercial reproduction. Nntp-Posting-Host: squid.cs.ucla.edu Archive-Number: 2769 In article <1990Nov29.192745.6713@cs.ucla.edu>, SECBH%CUNYVM.BITNET@oac.ucla.edu writes: > I would be interested in hearing whether other people who are > active in AIDS-related work have notice, or heard of the this trend. > And, especially I would be interested in comments by gay men in > their early 20s as to what the AIDS epidemic means in their lives. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Jack Carroll "I knew there was a void in my life that was missing." > > Charlene Tilton of _Dallas_ Having worked in an AIDS ward at a local hospital, I saw firsthand what the virus can do to a person, and it worries me that this trend is happening. I have heard of this trend and it is real. Being in my early 20s, people my age and younger think that we are invincible and nothing can harm us. Furthermore, as a college student, we think that being in school can protect us from the virus. Probably these are two immediate reasons why we have unsafe sex. Just the other weekend, my former roommate told me that he had unprotected sex with his girlfriend. Why? Because she just had her period. I scolded him that he forgot about the possibility of transmitting or even receiving any STD including AIDS. I don't know if it did any good, but at least I warned him. Please remember that I am in the generation which was not wholly affected by the disease. I never had it nor did I ever know anyone personally who had it. It was just coincidental that I volunteered to work with people with AIDS and I can say that I fear for those who brush off the consequences and take the safe sex attitude very lightly in favor of just raw sex. Maverick