December 2001 Archives
from the sex before dying department
--------Spit or swallow? It's all about the sauce
At the tender age of 14 my best friend Alison and I decided that the time had come to master the blow job. Yes, young, I know. But we didn't want practical, hands-on (or mouth-on) experience, we just wanted to know what to do in case the occasion ever arose that we would have to lose our respective oral innocence and take the plunge. Walk the plank. Head (sorry) into uncharted territory. Technically, we wanted to improve our fellatio IQ. We were certain that, some day in the future, we would be, uh, tested, if you will.
--------The following questions may help you to assess your risk for being infected with hepatitis C. Answer only the questions that apply.
--------The Body: Barebacking in the Gay Community
Barebacking is an extremely controversial and complicated issue, especially since it is dealing with human behavior. Not all gay men engage in barebacking. Many gay men use condoms every time they have anal sex with every partner. But some gay men prefer to have unprotected anal sex and they are willing to take the risks. For some gay men, the benefits of unprotected anal intercourse (intimacy, pleasure, etc.) outweigh the risks (HIV and other STDs). On the other hand, if two gay men have unprotected anal intercourse, and neither of them is infected with HIV, nor any other STD, then barebacking would be completely safe as far as infectious diseases are concerned. But if either partner has HIV or another STD, then there are significant risks of infection for these diseases through barebacking. Future HIV and STD prevention efforts targeted toward the gay community must incorporate the issue of barebacking.
from May 1999
--------*Human Papillomavirus
--------Sperm Donor Must Pay Child Support
This kind of ruling is definately going to cause, in the long run, more interest in genetic do-it-yourself things like cloning. I can't imagine this, the prospect of having to pay child support because of a few minutes in a doctor's office looking at porn, is going to make it any easier to find sperm donors for childless couples in the future.
--------Google recently unveiled their 20 year archive of usenet postings. Here is the first mention of AIDS on usenet on December 20th, 1982. I was 16 years old at the time.
We had several computers in the house and school but I had no access to the net back then. At the Academy we played games to see who could write the programs which would consume the CPU's cycles at the expense of the others on the timeshare.
I think that year I both gave and received my first blow jobs. So long ago.
--------Homosexual behavior in wild Sumatran orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus abelii), Elizabeth A. Fox
Wild male Sumatran orangutans at two study sites engaged in homosexual behavior. These observations demonstrate that homosexual behavior is not an artifact of captivity or contact with humans. In separate instances, homosexual behavior was associated with affiliative and agonistic behaviors. These observations add orangutans to the list of primates in which homosexual behavior forms part of the natural repertoire of sexual or sociosexual behavior.
--------HPV Sequence Database
The Human Papillomaviruses Database collects, curates, analyzes, and publishes genetic sequences of papillomaviruses and related cellular proteins. Our group includes molecular biologists, sequence analysts, computer technicians, post-docs and graduate research assistants. We are located at Los Alamos National Laboratory in the Theoretical Biology and Biophysics Group and are funded by the Division of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases through an interagency agreement with the Department of Energy. --------
- from the and you thought your job was tough department
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