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To: Lane3 who wrote (9389)	4/17/2002 1:18:40 PM
From: J. C. Dithers	Read Replies (1) of 21057

The "something" I had in mind was more like "AIDS is not the scourge among the heterosexual population that it is among the gay male population." Quibbling with words obscures my point, which was quite obvious. To add to my last post, if we take your figures that new AIDS cases are approximately 4:1 gay males, and add the fact that the ratio of gays to the general population is 1:9, then my math skills (quite limited) tell me that a gay male is 36 times more likely to contract AIDS today than a heterosexual. Actually, even higher than that when comparing males -- since the "5" above are gay males where the "1" above is heterosexuals of both genders. If the heterosexuals were evenly divided between men and women, then the likelihood of the gay males versus the hetero male would double to 72 times more likely. Also, the 10% population ratio of gays also includes both genders. If gay males are only half of that, then the likelihood of gay males to hetero males doubles further to -- well, you see the point. If you care to discuss this further, why don't you address that point? Or maybe, AIDS is no longer just a gay problem in North America... does it for you.

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