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...panel, has become literally a life-and-death matter, and educators should use "whatever vernacular is required" to get the message across. One message, more or less in the vernacular, has already been supplied by Koop: a "rubber (condom) should always be used during sexual intercourse (vagina or rectum)" if there is any chance that a homosexual or heterosexual partner might be infected...
...transmission results from contact with the semen or blood of an AIDS victim. In semen, the virus rides as a passenger, probably in the disease-fighting white blood cells in the fluid. During intercourse, the white blood cells containing the AIDS virus alight on the mucous membranes inside the rectum or the vagina. Unlike the skin, which is an efficient barrier to the virus, the mucous membrane is a much thinner tissue and is more susceptible to infection. If microscopic tears occur in the membranes during sexual contact, these may act as passageways for the virus. But some studies...
...Although the AIDS virus is found in several body fluids, a person acquires the virus during sexual contact with an infected person's blood or semen and possibly vaginal secretions . . . Small (unseen by the naked eye) tears in the surface lining of the vagina or rectum may occur during insertion of the penis, fingers or other objects, thus opening an avenue for entrance of the virus directly into the blood stream; therefore, the AIDS virus can be passed from penis to rectum and vagina and vice versa without a visible tear in the tissue or the presence of blood...
...suspect that (your partner) has been exposed by previous heterosexual or homosexual behavior or use of intravenous drugs with shared needles and syringes, a rubber (condom) should always be used during (start to finish) sexual intercourse (vagina or rectum...
...estrogen, the implanted tissue grows and spreads. Cells from the growths break away and are ferried by lymphatic fluid throughout the body, sometimes, although rarely, forming islands in the lungs, kidneys, bowel or even the nasal passages. There they respond to the menstrual cycle, causing monthly bleeding from the rectum or wherever else they have settled...