Word: panic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...same-sex encounters lump all homosexual contact in a high risk category. It ignores the fact that mutual masturbation between two men is of a much lower risk category than unprotected heterosexual intercourse. How can the CDC and the American Red Cross justify their blatant submission to the homophobic panic of the heterosexual American public under the guise of protecting the blood supply, while it allows a straight male who has had unprotected sex on multiple occasions to be a donor...
There is no medical or ethical justification for denying me and other gay men the choice all heterosexuals enjoy. The sole basis for the Red Cross and CDC regulation is the homophobic panic of the late eighties and the refusal by the Red Cross executive board to challenge the CDC. This is an issue most people choose not to discuss because it is not a safe battle. The devotees of gay rights have ignored it, and so to has the rest of the American public. It is my firm belief that if we are going to fight for equality...
...years have neuroscientists begun to understand how important this one substance is to the functioning of the human psyche. Serotonin, or the lack of it, has been implicated not only in depression, uncontrollable appetite and obsessive-compulsive disorder but also in autism, bulimia, social phobias, premenstrual syndrome, anxiety and panic, migraines, schizophrenia and even extreme violence...
...four when he was taught by "Miss Diana." "One day," he says, "me and my friend Charlie were in the toilets at school. I think we were messing around, trying to see who could pee the farthest. She came in and startled us, so we turned around--in panic or something--and got her across the shins. She was very nice about it all, I think. We didn't get into too much trouble. But she rang my mother to tell her we'd been naughty but that she'd had words with us and she thought that should...
...baseball season, for instance, I often wonder if he's tempted to put in some secret bullpen practice with a catcher whose discretion he could count on--Web Hubbell, maybe--just to reduce the chances that his first attempt to put one over the plate could panic the customers in the box seats behind third base. I wouldn't blame...