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Article: AIDS and the sexual counter-revolution.
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- National Review
- Article date:
- July 3, 1987
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AIDS and the Sexual Counter-Revolution
TOM BETHELL wrote recently in The American Spectatorthat the point of the current condom campaign appears to be less to save the nation from AIDS than to preserve the sexual revolution. The truth of that is illustrated by the difficulty of getting public attention focused on one raw fact: that the great vehicle of AIDS has been homosexual anal intercourse.
Writing in Crisis, Monsignor Eugene Clark notesangrily that the media have played this fact down as timidly as the politicians have. The "cause' of AIDS is said to be a virus--though the virus has presumably existed for eons. How did it happen to get into ...