Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site pur-phy.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!CS-Mordred!Pucc-H:pur-phy!act From: act@pur-phy.UUCP (Alex C. Tselis) Newsgroups: net.med Subject: Re: A Lay question about AIDS? Message-ID: <1596@pur-phy.UUCP> Date: Fri, 18-Jan-85 02:21:47 EST Article-I.D.: pur-phy.1596 Posted: Fri Jan 18 02:21:47 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 18-Jan-85 10:34:12 EST References: <182@ttidcc.UUCP> Reply-To: act@pur-phy.UUCP (Alex C. Tselis) Organization: Purdue Univ. Physics Dept., IN Lines: 20 Summary: In article <182@ttidcc.UUCP> hollombe@ttidcc.UUCP (Jerry Hollombe) writes: >>From: molefeuvre@watarts.UUCP (Michael O LeFeuvre) >>Subject: A Lay question about AIDS? >>Message-ID: <8211@watarts.UUCP> >> >> 1. Why is it so specific to male homosexuals? I realize other >> people do get it, but the dominant group is gays, a very >> minority goup of the population. > >I know of two theories on this point. One seems reasonable, the other >frighteningly paranoid. > >Reasonable: > >One of the primary vectors of AIDS is anal intercourse. This is because >the lining of the rectum isn't built for such treatment and can develop >tears which provide a direct path to the bloodstream. The virus (or >whatever) is carried and passed on in semen. > Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't there such a thing as "gay bowel syndrome"?