Sex at Risk: Lifetime Number of Partners, Frequency of Intercourse, and the Low AIDS Risk of Vaginal Intercourse

摘要: Politicians, interest groups, and the mass media often answer questions about how AIDS is sexually transmitted as if heterosexual vaginal intercourse a high-risk activity. When it comes to understanding transmitted, formulating effective policy deal with spread of AIDS, America remains confused. What. Brody calls ideological knowledge "fat "more likely filter through society than scientific knowledge. "Sex at Risk Is "a comprehensive review literature dealing with. transmission AIDS. Like Michael Fumento's "The Myth Heterosexual "it exposes mythology surrounding transmission, also looks deeply reasons that fear from has so widely profoundly, He addresses serious methodological problems in AIDS/HIV behavioral research, well tendentious political correctness done disservice science. "also comprehensively reviews international research on correlates lifetime number sexual partners frequency intercourse. Among topics covered are: relationships between mental health, explanations for important differences masturbation, possible association healthy functioning, correlations national development. concludes by discussing what reveals politically correct thought impedes progress, when taboo themes, regardless their validity, cannot be pursued, "factually grounded, yet controversial; . raises critical much we have learned popular professional publications, "soft scientists," public health campaigns. It will medical doctors, clinicians, those interested sociology psychology knowledge,