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From: jeffw@midas.UUCP (Jeff Winslow)
Newsgroups: net.motss,net.med,net.nlang.africa,net.singles,net.women
Subject: Re: Saving Lives
Message-ID: <54@midas.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 20-Nov-85 10:26:49 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 20 10:26:49 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 23-Nov-85 01:09:16 EST
References: <3000@sun.uucp> <697@lasspvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: jeffw@midas.UUCP (Jeff Winslow)
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Summary: 

In article <697@lasspvax.UUCP> cheryl@lasspvax.UUCP (Cheryl Stewart) writes:
>In article <3000@sun.uucp> wild@sun.uucp (Will Doherty) writes:
>>Let people know about how AIDS works.  
>>
>> [many detailed descriptions of sex acts]
>
>This does not belong in net.women any more than it belongs in
>net.music or net.rec.birds.  Sure, women have sex, but so do
>people who birdwatch or listen to music.  Just because the 
>classification of women as a group is based on sexual anatomy
>does not make this a forum for discussion of sexual practices,
>or diseases incurred thereby.  
>
>This newsgroup is intended for discussion of the economic, legal,
>social and political issues that affect women as individuals and
>as a group.  So keep your bloody cross-postings to yourself.

But medical issues are right out, huh? AIDS *is* a social and medical
issue that affect women as individuals and as a group. If it doesn't
affect you, good. But that's hardly a reason to flame. Quite the contrary.

Along the lines of recent theorizing by Matt Crawford, I will now ask
if perhaps the reason you objected to this article was that you
feel threatened by detailed descriptions of sex acts? 

						Jeff Winslow