Sunday, January 9, 2005 at 9:30 AM Marc, That's a good article. I just wanted to add to my rant earlier...This whole conversation really is a good book-end to what Drew and Adam were talking about the other day: how the risk of AIDS/HIV isn't very high in rural places and lower risk communities. The risk of my getting AIDS from having sex with a woman in Maine (where I grew up) is SOOOOO much lower than if I were hanging out with an ex-IV drug user in San Francisco. But, in high school I was taught that if I didn't use a condom, the chances of me getting AIDS was the same as the SF person. If only there was a little common sense in these programs. The same goes for the tears arguement. Yes, there is probably a finite chance of getting HIV from tears, but it's so miniscule why have that as a tenet of your safe-sex program? Let's focus on common-sense ways to help prevent it in the first place... It's really aweful how politicians take good science and make bad policy out of it. These people are so out of touch with reality it's scary.
—Adrocka | 
