Ealger wrote:
there is more about aids because there is more aids more drug abuse and butt bumping = more aids
not rocket science, is it?
Actually, that's not true. The spread of HIV in the gay community has largely stabilized, and HIV amongst heterosexuals are actually growing at a much larger rate.
Africa is a prime example of this.
The stigma of HIV is, like many other STD's, that a person infected is viewed as immoral, promiscuous or sexually deviant, or a drug addict that take his stuff intravenous. The numbers show a much more well defined picture: while there's a larer fraction of HIV infected people amongst gay men and drug addicts, 'clean' normal people outnumber them by far.
In a way, it's understandable. I find it a f**cking hassle to have to stop what I'm doing and enjoying to put on some rubber. I do it, but I can imagine that more passionate people than me (my ex girlfriend just called me 'emotionally dead, heheh) will have a harder time interrupting their little games.
I see HIV and AIDS as a disease. How people contracted it is, to me, almost irrelevant (not counting the cases where someone knows their partner is HIV positive but still doesn't practise safe sex etc). Once they have it, it's no different morally than having other diseases or illnesses.
Unfortunately, a great deal of people do not have the same opinion as me. Not saying I'm better than them, but I think being open about it allows for a more aggressive and unhindered war against it. Taboos have a tendency to slow development.