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Koop said his evangelical Christian beliefs remained intact despite what some called a surprisingly liberal report on AIDS he issued in 1986. In the document, Koop discussed the practice of anal intercourse and recommended that those who practice it use condoms...
...conceivable that AIDS will fan out from the ghettos into the general population, but not likely. If the spread occurs, it will be slow: many scientists believe the virus is passed along less readily in conventional intercourse than in homosexual encounters. Anal intercourse is by far the most likely means of sexual transmission. Although the evidence is sketchy, women seem to be more at risk than men of acquiring the virus from the opposite sex. So far, 1,757 U.S.-born women may have contracted AIDS from men, and 565 men from women...
This "retroactive" plague, as Andrew Holleran calls the AIDS epidemic in Ground Zero (Morrow; 228 pages; $16.95), is causing not only panic but a radical change in sensibilities. Phrases like "oral sex" and "anal penetration," once startling to read outside hard-covers, are now routinely bounced off satellites with the weather reports. "Making love," one of the sweetest phrases in the language, now suggests a cause of death. Still, the world is sharply divided into the sick and the well, and AIDS can be something of a lark if you are a robust heterosexual college student at a safe...
...mince words. "No matter what you may have heard, the AIDS virus is hard to get and is easily avoided," the pamphlet says. "You won't get AIDS from clothes, a telephone or from a toilet seat." Instead, the virus is transmitted by "sharing drug needles and syringes; anal sex, with or without a condom; and vaginal or oral sex with someone who shoots drugs or engages in anal...
...anything is clear about the AIDS epidemic, it is that anal sex among homosexual men and needle sharing among drug addicts are still the major ways the AIDS virus is transmitted in the U.S. American victims are still overwhelmingly male: 92%. And though there is no doubt that heterosexual intercourse between intravenous drug users or bisexual men and their lovers is contributing to the spread of the disease, the number of AIDS cases traced to sex between men and women not in these high-risk groups is very low -- about 4% -- and has remained stable. But just what...