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The myth of heterosexual AIDS /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fumento, Michael (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Basic Books, [1990]
Subjects:
AIDS (Disease) > Political aspects > United States.
AIDS (Disease) > Social aspects > United States.
AIDS (Disease) > Transmission.
HIV-positive heterosexuals.
Heterosexuals > Health and hygiene.
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome.
Public Relations.
Sexual Behavior.
Sida > Aspect politique > États-Unis.
Sida > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Sida > Transmission.
AIDS (Disease) > Political aspects.
AIDS (Disease) > Social aspects.
United States.
Table of Contents:
  • The reign of terror
  • The once and future heterosexual non-epidemic
  • A primer on a pestilence
  • The risks of heterosexual intercourse
  • The "perils" of promiscuity
  • "Russian roulette," and other fearsome fallacies
  • To tell the truth
  • Prostitutes : the "AIDS assassins"
  • But what about Africa?
  • The agony of the underclass
  • The liberal democratizers
  • Safe sex and condom wars
  • The conservative alarmists
  • The homosexual lobby
  • AIDS goes to Hollywood
  • The death of the sexual revolution (again)
  • Lies, damned lies, and statistics
  • The media and the doctors of doom
  • An epidemic of media hype
  • The terror, revisited
  • The incredible shrinking epidemic
  • The AIDS lobby : are we giving it too much money?
  • - Alarmism for fun and profit
  • Appendix: The 1989 Montreal conference on AIDS.