Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site bbncca.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!bbncca!rrizzo From: rrizzo@bbncca.ARPA (Ron Rizzo) Newsgroups: net.motss Subject: publish & panic Message-ID: <780@bbncca.ARPA> Date: Tue, 12-Jun-84 15:05:39 EDT Article-I.D.: bbncca.780 Posted: Tue Jun 12 15:05:39 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 13-Jun-84 05:05:48 EDT Organization: Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Cambridge, Ma. Lines: 14 The current (today's May 12th) Gay Community News (Boston paper) has a sane & eye-opening review of recent books by gay & straight authors on AIDs & other sexually transmitted diseases written by Charley Shively. Shively shows how medical & other authorities are effectively reintro- ducing fear of sex and outright superstition by means of the current public anxieties over herpes, hepatitis, as well as AIDS, above and beyond the real risks contained in these diseases. Many of the books reviewed are being widely read; some are worse than others. The best are anthologies of medical papers that have least bearing on personal health practices. It's worth reading the review if you have read or will read any of this literature.