SECBH%CUNYVM.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu (05/22/91)
decwrl!well.sf.ca.us!well!gregs@uunet.UU.NET (Greg Strockbine) writes in part: >* does stomach acid kill the aids virus? This might sound > silly but I have a friend who is an occasional prostitute > and makes this claim. > >* regarding my friend, her clients are exclusively well to do ?????????? > men she is referred to thru friends, she sees them about > once or twice a week. Obviously she is not in the same risk ???????????????????? > category as a woman who works the street, but can we say ???????????????????????????????????????? > anything about her risks? The only thing your friend knows about her customers is exactly what she sees them do when she is with them. The fact that they may be "well to do" is great if she is interested in selling them a Ferrari, but it has nothing to say about how safe they are to have sex with. As far as risk goes the only thing that separates her from "a woman who works the streets" is four walls and a roof. If your trick has HIV infection what is going to save the day is a condom, not a condo. I used to hang out with a bunch of "working girls" who were employed in a very exclusive, members-only club for Wall Street types -- when HIV came along they insisted that their customers use condoms. They were smart enough to know that they were turning tricks not the pages of Dun & Bradstreet. Intimate contact sets you up for exposure to a large number of diseases in addition to HIV, i.e. - herpes, hepatitis, various VD infections and so on. The sex industry is a high risk field, AIDS or no. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Jack Carroll "Night is caused by the accumulation of <SECBH@CUNYVM> dirt in the air." de Selby
rjwill6@PacBell.COM (Rod Williams) (05/24/91)
Hi Jack - long time no see... >If your trick has HIV infection what is going to save the day >is a condom, not a condo. This is delicious! Saved *my* day (:-)) Rod Williams -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- R O D W I L L I A M S P A C I F I C * B E L L S A N F R A N C I S C O , C A L I F O R N I A ================================================================================