XPost: sci.med, misc.health.aids, soc.men   
   XPost: alt.politics.communism, alt.psychology   
   From: fan@superstar.stalk.net   
      
   penasquitos@gmail.com wrote...   
   > I know that it's terribly politically incorrect to suggest the   
   > possibility of HIV transission by means other than sex and needle   
   > sharing, and I can see why. But, personally, I'm more interested in   
   > knowing the truth than in being politically correct.   
      
   I wondered the same thing and was called insane for even suggesting it   
   because the brochure they give you at the AIDS clinic sez that it is   
   impossible to contract via surface contact (which is why the counselor   
   at the clinic who gives you the brochure wears latex gloves).  My   
   specific objection was to sharing a toilet with an AIDS patient whose   
   medication side-effects included explosive technicolor diarrhea all   
   over the toilet seat.  I was informed that my objection was insensitive   
   and that I required $500/hour "counseling" to re-educate me to enjoy   
   sitting my bare ass upon some AIDS patient's psychedelic fecal smears.   
      
   Oh, and I should add that none of the Dr. Phils lecturing propaganda   
   slogans at me bothered to offer to sit THEIR bare asses on the colorful   
   fecal smears; it seems that $500 only purchases a propaganda slogan but   
   sincere belief in that slogan isn't included at any price.   
      
   Finally, while HIV might not be terribly contagious via toilet seats,   
   other diseases might be, including diseases known to be transmissable   
   via surface contact: Hepatitis, herpes, and gawd-knows how many species   
   of wart and pox viruses and the assorted bacteria and fungi associated   
   with the festering anal boils that AIDS patients are prone to.  Naturally,   
   objection to any of this is offensive, heretical, unprogressive, and   
   mentally-unhygienic and grounds for having you hauled off in a straight-   
   jacket by men wearing white coats and latex gloves.   
      
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