From: utzoo!decvax!decwrl!amd70!pn
Newsgroups: net.singles
Title: AIDS
Article-I.D.: amd70.383
Posted: Sat Dec 18 00:23:06 1982
Received: Fri Dec 24 00:17:35 1982

I just heard about something rather frightening: Acquired Immune Deficency
Syndrome, AIDS for short. It is transmitted by any excrement or secretion,
including saliva, blood, urine, feces, and sperm. It is apparently fatal
about 40% of the time. It has a estimated latency time of about a year,
during which the victim is contagious but shows no symptoms.
	The relevance of this to net.singles is that it reminds me of a
recent article in Time about sexually transmitted diseases. This article
said there was a period when casual sex was possible. VD was easily cured.
Then along came herpes. Now, for better or for worse, the choice of a
partner could not be so care-free. This article even alluded to a wrathful
God inflicting herpes as a punishment.
	Well, herpes may be painful and uncurable, but it is not fatal.
Now here is a disease which is. I wonder if AIDS will encourage monogamy
in cases where herpes hasn't. Apparently male homosexuals, who as a group
tend to change partners frequently, are often victims of AIDS.  I wonder
what Time thinks of this. And, I wonder what you think of this.
	Oh, and don't get any blood transfusions either.

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