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STRAIGHT AIDS MYTH SHATTERED
Pagesix ^ | 03/19/04 | Pagesix

Posted on 03/19/2004 6:36:45 AM PST by Pikamax

Edited on 05/26/2004 5:20:18 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

THE public health experts - and their amen corner in the media - owe Helen Gurley Brown an apology. The legendary Cosmopolitan editor was vilified in 1993 when she published a piece called "The Myth of Heterosexual AIDS." But she was right.


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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aids; grids; hiv
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1 posted on 03/19/2004 6:36:45 AM PST by Pikamax
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To: Pikamax
If this weren't so sad it would be laughable.
2 posted on 03/19/2004 6:40:26 AM PST by EggsAckley ("An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last"...)
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To: Stingray51
bump
3 posted on 03/19/2004 6:45:37 AM PST by Rodney King (No, we can't all just get along)
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To: Pikamax
My very liberal SIL stated that the largest growing group of AIDS patients in the US is black women. Anybody have stats that I can slam her with???
4 posted on 03/19/2004 6:46:15 AM PST by netmilsmom (Jonathansmommie's daughter was born 3-11-04, both home today!)
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To: netmilsmom
That actually might be true, though the greatest numbers are amongs homosexuals. Transmission rates from men to women are much greater than the reverse, and there were stories a couple of month's ago about college age black men who have sex with other men, but still consider themselves straight.
5 posted on 03/19/2004 6:56:07 AM PST by sharkhawk (I want to go to St. Somewhere)
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To: Pikamax
"Farber exposed the conspiracy between profit-hungry drug companies, researchers who wanted more funding, homosexuals who didn't want the disease to be known as "the gay plague," and conservatives who wanted to turn back the sexual revolution."


This is beyond sad. The truth seems as if it is an oddity anymore.

6 posted on 03/19/2004 6:56:31 AM PST by writer33 (The U.S. Constitution defines a Conservative)
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To: netmilsmom
It isn't the largest growing group, but it is the FASTEST growing group. Apparently significant numbers of black man are 'on the down low' and serving as an AIDS vector into the hetero black community.

It used to be that essentially no non-IV-drug using black women got AIDS. Now some are getting it from sexual contact. A moderate number of cases on a very small base = Fastest growth.
7 posted on 03/19/2004 6:58:36 AM PST by blanknoone (Give Kerry enough nuance, and he will hang himself.)
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To: netmilsmom
My very liberal SIL stated that the largest growing group of AIDS patients in the US is black women. Anybody have stats that I can slam her with???

I read something, probably here, stating that many black men who are bisexual or homosexual, tend to hide their preferences from the rest of the community. In other words, they pretend to be straight. If they are HIV positive, they can certainly pass this on to an unsuspecting female partner. As far as black women being the largest growing number of AIDS patients, I haven't heard that statistic.

We all know that statistics can be manipulated ;-)

8 posted on 03/19/2004 6:59:19 AM PST by TheSpottedOwl (Until Kofi Annan rides the Jerusalem RTD....nothing will change.)
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To: Pikamax
The last paragraph seems unconnected to the rest of the article.
9 posted on 03/19/2004 7:02:42 AM PST by js1138
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To: All
Thanks everyone!
10 posted on 03/19/2004 7:04:54 AM PST by netmilsmom (Jonathansmommie's daughter was born 3-11-04, both home today!)
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To: EggsAckley
If this weren't so sad it would be laughable.

What's worse is that in trying to convince the rest of us we were in danger,the Homosexual lobby and their allies prevented scientists etc. from focusing their efforts on the Gays.

And they blame Ronald Reagan for it.

11 posted on 03/19/2004 7:04:56 AM PST by Redcoat LI ( "help to drive the left one into the insanity.")
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To: little jeremiah; Pikamax; scripter
Bump & Ping


What We Can Do To Help Defeat the "Gay" Agenda


Homosexual Agenda: Categorical Index of Links (Version 1.1)


The Stamp of Normality

12 posted on 03/19/2004 7:05:15 AM PST by EdReform (Support Free Republic - All donations are greatly appreciated. Thank you for your support!)
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To: netmilsmom
Have to consider the prevalence of sex for drugs trades. These women are likely NOT drug free but associate with the injecting class of drug users.
13 posted on 03/19/2004 7:05:32 AM PST by justshutupandtakeit (America's Enemies foreign and domestic agree: Bush must be destroyed.)
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To: Pikamax
"Farber exposed... conservatives who wanted to turn back the sexual revolution."

Bullsh!t.
Conservatives simply want it acknowledged that AIDS is a primarily a behavioral disease, due to deviant behavior, and the vast majority of those who have contracted it did so knowing the risks.

Of course, the sad stories you read about are of innocent children who've acquired it from their drug-addicted mothers or from contaminated blood from irresponsible (or worse: malicious!) blood donors.

The AIDS "activists" you hear from know d@mn well the funding for AIDS research would have dried up overnight if the majority of people in this country realized that most of those with Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome had "acquired" it by putting their d!cks where they don't belong.

14 posted on 03/19/2004 7:08:35 AM PST by Redbob (ultrakonservativen click-guerilla)
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To: Pikamax
Michael Fumento, who wrote the original 1990 book titled "The Myth of Heterosexual AIDS," said, "I'm not waiting for an apology. It's not going to happen."

I read it back in 1990 and for the last 14 years have been recommending it to people who fell for the "everyone will get it" lie.

Next target --- Global Warming.

15 posted on 03/19/2004 7:10:53 AM PST by Ditto ( No trees were killed in sending this message, but billions of electrons were inconvenienced.)
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To: blanknoone; netmilsmom
Heres the link to the article on Black transmissions of aids.


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1075607/posts
AIDS Rising in Black Male College Students
16 posted on 03/19/2004 7:11:57 AM PST by Kakaze (I'm now a single issue voter.....exterminate Al Quaida)
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To: Redbob
Of course, the doctors originally called it GRIDS--Gay-Related Immune-Deficiency Syndrome. There's something that's gone down the Memory Hole.
17 posted on 03/19/2004 7:16:14 AM PST by Arthur McGowan
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To: Pikamax
Why are we sending ten billion to fight aids in Africa again?
18 posted on 03/19/2004 7:21:07 AM PST by MissAmericanPie
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To: EggsAckley
Somebody ask Magic Johnson if he'd like to comment on this article...
19 posted on 03/19/2004 7:22:34 AM PST by Tallguy (Cannot rate this Reserve Freepers fitness: Not observed on this thread.)
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To: Pikamax
"What do you call a man who got HIV from his girlfriend? . . . A liar."

Magic Johnson...

20 posted on 03/19/2004 7:23:30 AM PST by Paradox (I really have no clue, I just like the sound of my typing.)
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