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| quote: | Originally posted by SuperFarStucker
They really don't know how HIV crossed the species barrier and it's not necessarily true that it came from monkeys. There are many unknowns about HIV and sadly their is a low chance of it ever being cured (or rather a cure found) with current medicinal technology. On a tangent here, it's more or less incontrevertible that the problem , ultimately is a social one and social reform is probably the only way it will ever stop spreading (i.e. never). It's a sad fact of life...
While it's probably true gay people didn't "start" aid's it is also true that the first diagnosed cases (and recognized deaths) from the disease were among homosexual men in the bay area (IIRC). I think, however, that homosexual subculture aided in the spread of the disease, especially before it was recognized.
On a side note, I'm 17, worn protection everytime I had sex, and have only had intercourse with 2 people.. My tool isn't falling off and the people I have had sex with weren't sluts... so I'd say with a degree of certainty I'm clean although I really want to get tested just to be sure, uncertainty about such issues,(even in small amounts) really freaks me out.. |
one of the reasons they think it was so prevelent in the gay community was because of a person called agent x.
agent x was a gay individual who worked as a steward for some airline. he worked a regular route form san fran to nyc (i think). anyway this guy somehow picked up the virus and was very very promiscuous. having sex with a different person almost every nite he went out to party. now he would go out and party in san fran. and nyc along with any other cities he visited whilst working for hte airline.
so you have a guy flying all over the place who has a minimum of two new sexual partners a week. so he's spreading it all over the states, while the numerous guys he's doing are picking it up and spreading it to others. they say this guy had almost 300 different sexual partners
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