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!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!drutx!houxe!hogpc!houti!ariel!vax135!floyd!harpo!decvax!bbncca!rrizzo From: rrizzo@bbncca.UUCP Newsgroups: net.motss Subject: Re: publish & panic Message-ID: <782@bbncca.ARPA> Date: Thu, 14-Jun-84 14:02:17 EDT Article-I.D.: bbncca.782 Posted: Thu Jun 14 14:02:17 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 15-Jun-84 02:05:54 EDT References: <780@bbncca.ARPA> Organization: Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Cambridge, Ma. Lines: 18 After reading my previous message, I realized I should qualify it: the reviewer TENDS to downplay the real dangers of STDs, so the review should be read somewhat "with a grain of salt". There ARE books worth reading & using as guides among those reviewed. Some of the books carry quite a bit of homophobia in some of the information & advice given; the review should be seen as a needed corrective to such shortcomings. I certainly hope I didn't convey the impression that the AIDS crisis isn't an extremely serious matter that one ignores only at the risk (quite literally) of one's life, or that the other widespread STDs (hepatitis, herpes, repeated gonorrhea & amebiasis) aren't debili- tating illnesses that occasionally can even become life-threatening. I also hope this note doesn't heap more health anxieties on anyone. Ron Rizzo