Safe Sex is No Fun

[Burgess, John]

Paul writes:

>The 1970's was the age of Eros, but it was a bad mix. It went like 
>this: Eros + ease of travel + man's movement into rainforest = HIV.
>That's how the author of the _Coming Plague_ computes it. I concur.
>But it was fun.

Not to quibble, but...

Take a quarter million GIs (by defnition, sexed-up figures--nothing like 
the hint of death to turn a guy on); transport them, for free; to the 
jungles of SE Asia and the brothels of nearby R&R locales. But no HIV!  
Some interesting variations of syphilis and gonorrhea, granted, but not 
the killer plague.  _Coming Plague_ is a nifty way to make some bux, but 
let's not confuse it with facts or anything!