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From: jtk@ihlpl.UUCP (Kitteredge)
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Subject: Re: AIDS and RE: The worst (hist.) surgical proc.
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Date: Fri, 21-Feb-86 16:30:42 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 21 16:30:42 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].
...
> 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

Thanks for this article; it is fascinating, if only preliminary
hypothesis. I have often wondered how women could pass on AIDS during
sex, if it is true that the virus is found in large quantities in
semen and blood.

Motss stands for "Members of the Same Sex."

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		John Thomas Kittredge