Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!henry.jpl.nasa.gov!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ucla-cs!Alan.Holmes@brunel.ac.uk From: Alan.Holmes@brunel.ac.uk (Alan J Holmes) Newsgroups: sci.med.aids Subject: Re: Transmission Message-ID: <27524@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> Date: 28 Sep 89 13:35:26 GMT References: <27149@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> Sender: news@CS.UCLA.EDU Reply-To: Alan J HolmesOrganization: /usr/lib/news/organization Lines: 18 Approved: aids@cs.ucla.edu Archive-number: 1270 Recently on television in the UK there was a series on aids and it's effect on the family, the story line is that of a man having been on a business trip somewhere in Europe, visited a prostitute and has returned home to discover that he has contracted aids. I am puzzled!, I can understand how, when a person being penetrated by any form of sexual intercouse and semen is left behind, the virus is able to find its way into the bloodstream of the penetrated. My query is how can the virus make its way through the relatively tough skin covering the penis, my understanding is that the virus enters through broken skin or through a membrane, or does the virus make it's way down the urinary tract, and if it does make it's entry this way why couldn't the virus be flushed away by urinating immediately after copulating? Regards Alan Holmes