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From: jin@hropus.UUCP (Jerry)
Newsgroups: net.med,net.women,net.motss,net.jokes
Subject: AIDS and RE: The worst (hist.) surgical proc.
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Date: Wed, 19-Feb-86 21:00:35 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 19 21:00:35 1986
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I know this is irrelevent to net.jokes but the original article
was cross posted there and I consider it my duty as an AIDS volunteer
to educate...

This quote is taken without permission from the 15 Feb 1986 issue of
Science News (page 101):

"Anthropologist Uli Linke of the University of California at Berkely
suggests in the Jan. 17 _Science_ that the practice of clitorodectomy
may provide an explaination [of the heterosexual transmission of AIDS
in Africa].  Areas in Africa where part of the female genitalia is
ritually removed correspond to the areas of the epidemic, she says.
After some types of clitorodectomy, vaginal intercourse can cause
bleeding, and anal intercourse is often substituted.  Either practice,
notes Linke, could encourage spread of the virus."

I intend to read the original article or letter shortly and will post
any additional info to net.med and net.motss.  Incidently, what does
motss mean or stand for?

				Jerry I Natowitz
				ihnp4!houxm!hropus!jin
				The Master Baker