Safe Sex is No Fun

[Paul Mackin]

On Sat, 23 Mar 1996, Burgess, John wrote:

> 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!
 

Haven't read the book myself. Don't think my friend (or the author?) was 
talking about GI travel particularly. It was people visiting African
rain forests and coming into contact with those famous "green" monkeys.

					P.