From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Citecheck Hell)
Subject: Re: From CDC Summary 8/4/92 and 9/21/92
Reply-To: thf2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1992 05:45:05 GMT

In article <1992Oct4.015020.18897@jack.sns.com> jsb@jack.sns.com (Jim Best) writes:
>In article <8424.1778@stratus.SWDC.Stratus.COM> lpb@florida.swdc.stratus.com (Len Bucuvalas) writes:
>>In rebuttal to Mr. Cramer's blatent anti-homosexual
>>campaign...I post the following. You'd best start teaching
>>your kids Cramer and forget this stupid war of yours.
>>****************************************************************
>>
>>"Teenagers and AIDS" Newsweek (08/03/92) Vol. 120, No. 5, P.
>>45
>>(Kantrowitz, Barbara et al.)
>>     Teenagers are becoming increasingly at risk for HIV
>>infection resulting from ignorance about the disease.  A congressional
>>report released in April cautioned that HIV is "spreading  unchecked
>>among the nation's adolescents, regardless of where  they live or their
>>economic status."  More than 5,000 children  and young people have died
>>of AIDS since the beginning of the  epidemic, and the disease is now
>>the sixth leading cause of death among those aged 15-24.  Within the
>>past three years, the total  of those aged 13-24 diagnosed with 
>>AIDS rose 77 percent. U.S.Surgeon General Antonia Novello said that the
>>ratio of female to  male AIDS patients has doubled in the last four
>>years.  Females  accounted for 39 percent of adolescent cases last
>>year, up from 17 percent 1987.Even frank discussion of AIDS has not been
>>effective for teens because they still feel they are not at risk. While
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Funny thing about that.  You look at the causes of the AIDS cases
amongst these youngsters, and it turns out to be: blood transfusions
to hemophiliacs, IV drug use, and homosexual intercourse.  Only a
few dozen teenagers have contracted AIDS through heterosexual intercourse,
and the number actually went down between 1990 and 1991.

See Michael Fumento's refutation of the Newsweek story in the New Republic.

>        This is exactly why the GREAT CONDOM give away and the "SAFE SEX"
>        myth has had no effect on this problem. Until we start telling
>        these kids and adults admit that "THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS
>        SAFE SEX" AID's is going to continue to run unchecked through
>        society.

Hundreds times as many teenagers die from not wearing seat belts as
from not wearing (or wearing) condoms.  

>        I know it's tough on you liberals out there, but there is no cure.
>        And the only answer is to return to teaching tradition morals. 

Or perhaps teaching women to be lesbians?  After all, lesbian women
are at far less risk than heterosexual women.
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