# Talk:Joseph Sonnabend

Looks good... nice job. MastCell 16:42, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. I think he's an important figure — interesting too. Trezatium 17:05, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
The structure is still quite muddled but I'm fed up with working on it for now. Trezatium 19:31, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

Clearly attempts at safer sex were practised hundreds, if not thousands, of years before AIDS, albeit without the same level of knowledge. Also, no rationale is given as to why a multifactoral model is more likely to suggest the use of condoms than a single-entity infectious agent model (which is, indeed, how the rationale ultimately played out). Bluehotel (talk) 10:45, 14 January 2017 (UTC)
The reason why a multifactorial model could suggest condom use in 1983 was that it proposed that the disease was acquired by a cumulative process so that a single broken condom could be tolerated. On the other hand, a single sexual exposure to the postulated infectious agent, according to the single-entity model, was commonly viewed at that time to have lethal consequences. The risk of a broken condom was not easily acceptable to those who proposed that "a killer virus" could cause disease on a single exposure.  The more general  acceptance of condoms about 2 years after they were first suggested may possibly have depended on a growing understanding, with greater experience that sexual exposure was not followed by infection 100% of the time.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Djorman (talk • contribs) 18:02, 14 January 2017 (UTC) 

He also composed music, some of which can be heard on YouTube. The New York Times mentions his musical abilities in its obituary, February 1, 2021. Cunningpal (talk) 22:34, 1 February 2021 (UTC)