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FOOTNOTE: *The cameraless U.S. spacecraft ICE made the first close approach to a comet last September, when it passed only 5,000 miles behind the nucleus of Comet Giacobini-Zinner...
...Zinner's recurring suggestions for prevention of specific STDs are of little help. After each chapter on a different STD (he covers more than 25 different varieties), Zinner recommends ways of preventing the disease. But he inevitably reverts to saying something such as "little is known about the disease, and therefore prevention is hard to suggest," or he advocates the use of condoms (which are only protective of the areas of the penis that they cover...
...does refute fears that towelsharing hot tubs and toilet seats can transmit sexual diseases, but as far as advocating real protection, Zinner's only words of wisdom are that...
...Zinner has certainly done his homework in researching this book, and it shows. He should get an A for research. But he gets and F in Show and Tell for making it palatable and understandable to the rest of the class...
Venereal disease is a lot more complicated than in the old days, as Eddie Murphy pointed out. Zinner's book does little to change that fact...