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To: J. C. Dithers who wrote (9406)	4/17/2002 2:02:15 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21057

If you care to discuss this further, why don't you address that point? I will. Please let me first go back to my original point. Heterosexual men are less vulnerable than homosexual men. Heterosexual men are less vulnerable than anyone who has sex with a man. This is because of two things. The first is that gay men, as a demographic, were mortally wounded by this virus before anyone recognized what it was, which means that the odds of a gay partner being infected are pretty high. The second is that the partner who is penetrated is more likely to be infected simply by the way the virus is spread, through broken tissue. That's what I said in my original response and I'm sticking to it. Heterosexual men are the lucky partners. Their chance of contracting AIDS through sex is still pretty small. Or maybe, AIDS is no longer just a gay problem in North America... does it for you. However, today, in this place, fewer than half of the new infections are from homosexual sex. That is down from nearly all the infections, and continuing to fall. I don't see how you can say that a disease where fewer than half the infections stem from homosexual sex is a gay problem. They used to say that heart attacks were a male problem and women kept keeling over. AIDS can only be framed as a gay problem if you've been playing Rip Van Winkle the last dozen years or if you are predisposed to find it so.