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From: sdyer@bbncc5.UUCP (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: net.motss
Subject: Re: Personal Revelation about AIDS
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Date: Sun, 8-Sep-85 00:01:25 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep  8 00:01:25 1985
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I guess I'd just like to reemphasize, now that someone's asking "well, if
poppers are bad, what about grass?", that this is exactly the WRONG kind of
question to be asking.  None of the available evidence about AIDS
contradicts the assumption that all it takes is a SINGLE exposure through
an appropriate vector, quite independent of the supposed state of one's
immune system.  The early people who got AIDS didn't necessarily succumb
because of late nights at the disco and lots of poppers--they got it
because they were sufficiently promiscuous that their chances of coming
across an infected person was very high.  Now that HTLV-3 antibodies can be
found in a significant percentage of gay men, at least in certain cities
like NY, SF and LA, it is simply imprudent, if not suicidally foolish, to
indulge in "unsafe sex" practices, even if you meet "Mr. Wonderful" today
and pledge monogamy thereon.

Sure, take care of yourself, get enough rest, and take Geritol.
But don't let that substitute for the simplest and most effective
methods of avoiding exposure to the virus.
-- 
/Steve Dyer
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