Can you get AIDS from kissing?

[George Madison]

CORCORAN%MAINE....@YALE.EDU (John Corcoran) writes:
>Researchers for Health and Welfare Canada went even further to dispute
>the effectiveness of transmission through the mouth at all. HIV is
>easily killed by digestive acids, and baring great open wounds in the
>mouth, transmission was unlikely. This led several organizations to
>place oral sex without a condom (insertive or receptive) on the 'minimal
>risk' category. But this is controversial. US studies have identified
>10 cases of HIV infection attributed to oral sex only. While this is
>largely guesswork, so is the HW-C study. I think it's better to err on
>the cautious side.

In the LA Men's Study, comprising several thousand men, only two who claimed
to be exclusively oral seroconverted -- and it was later discovered that
they'd been "doing it" not long after having TOOTH EXTRACTIONS!

Given the results I've seen, I'm in less danger from my being a sucker for a
nice dick than I am being a driver in LA. [Or worse yet, a *pedestrian*.]

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