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Originally Posted by kilotoons
Bullshit, gay/drug users/rich*poor they all get it. I've heard quite alot of rich and upper middle class people dying from that. They just don't like it publicized. It's equally distributed among unlucky drug users and sexually active people, it doesn't give a shit what your income is.
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Wrong; via the
CDC - -
Estimated number of AIDS cases in 2005:
White, not Hispanic 12,689
Black, not Hispanic 22,030
Hispanic 8,432
Asian/Pacific Islander 549
American Indian/Alaska Native 196
Transmission Category, male and female:
Male-to-male sexual contact 18,939 -
Injection Drug Use 5,806 3,179
Male-to-male sexual contact and injection drug use 2,190 -
High-risk heterosexual contact* 5,208 8,278
Other** 287 253
Top 10 by state:
New York 6,299
Florida 4,960
California 4,088
Texas 3,113
Georgia 2,333
Illinois 1,922
Maryland 1,595
Pennsylvania 1,510
New Jersey 1,278
Puerto Rico 1,033
(crossing off Puerto Rico as a place to move)
Sex education in the United States is the biggest load of bullshit. I never heard anything about "high risk" practices, but plenty about "alternatives." No one is telling kids these statistics so they don't offend anyone.
Hell, I went to private schools and all I ever saw was an abstinance video were some couple got married and both of them died of AIDS. The evangelicals who made it were so brain dead they couldn't figure out the logical conclusion to the video was that there was if you save sex for marriage you still could get STDs because your partner may have not.
We all know that fear is the silliest method of preventing behavior, especially when its a body function as natural and normal as eating. The second worst is ignorance, by not telling kids the truth.