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...AIDS virus is carried only by bodily fluids; it spreads chiefly through sexual contact or contact with contaminated blood, as with transfusions or shared intravenous drug needles. HIV spreads only from semen to blood, vaginal fluid to blood or blood to blood. The virus does not survive long outside these fluids and cannot be transported via food, air or surfaces such as toilet seats...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Question of Myth vs. Reality | 10/31/1988 | See Source »

...pivotal evidence was the same in both cases: results from a new forensic test, known as DNA, or genetic, "fingerprinting," which can specifically match a suspect to genetic material in blood, hair or semen left at the scene of a crime. Hailed as the single greatest forensic breakthrough since the advent of fingerprinting at the turn of the century, the technique is being put to use with growing frequency in the nation's courtrooms. Orlando prosecutors scored the first conviction in the U.S. based on DNA typing just last November in a rape trial; since then it has figured prominently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Convicted by Their Genes | 10/31/1988 | See Source »

...losing one's virginity ("If you don't feel like you can talk to your partner, then it's probably time to reconsider"), how to kiss (not too wet or too wide, and never with flavored lip-gloss) and the "Truth About Boys' Bodies" ("the average amount of semen per ejaculation is one-quarter of an ounce"). Sandwiched between the glossy but no-nonsense fashion pages and gushing paeans to the latest teen idols is at least one hard-hitting article, like the story of a teen whose best friend died of AIDS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: From Feminists to Teenyboppers | 5/16/1988 | See Source »

...more easily pass the virus to a female sexual partner than vice versa. Certainly more women have got the disease from men than men from women: women make up 75% of those who have contracted AIDS through heterosexual intercourse. Researchers have speculated that the virus is more concentrated in semen than in vaginal secretions and that the mucous membranes lining the vagina are especially vulnerable to penetration by the virus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Just How Does AIDS Spread? | 3/21/1988 | See Source »

...groupie pensively rubbing someone's semen all over her naked body...

Author: By Will Meyerhofer, | Title: Galled Stones | 2/26/1988 | See Source »

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