Bill Weintraub

Re: Frot to Trot

11-1-2003

thanks danny

re "simple solution"

chuck tarver, dr edward green, and i have been talking about simple solutions recently

alcoholism -- stop drinking (AA)

lung cancer -- stop smoking (ACS)

HIV, HPV, HSV, hep c, hep b, gonorrhea, etc -- stop doing anal ( M2M Alliance)

in each case there's a simple and low cost solution

and in no case is the individual poorer for having chosen it

no one needs alcohol, cigarettes, or anal "sex"

and in the case of anal, not only is there an alternative, but it's far more pleasurable

so what's preventing this solution from being implemented?

vested interests

we now have a huge AIDS industry which supports AIDS Service Organizations, safer-sex educators, condom manufacturers, lube purveyors, pharmaceutical companies, and doctors, nurses, and a host of other "health care providers"

if you don't do anal -- you don't need any of that

AA -- to its eternal credit -- has refused to become commercial

so there are now clinics which charge people tens of thousands of dollars to tell them the same thing:

if you're an alcoholic -- you need to stop drinking

it's a simple solution -- and it's also the only solution

there's a fantasy among analists that a microbicide will be developed which will make anal safe

but just as soon as that microbicide appears, pathogens will start evolving to work around it and continue to use anal as a vector -- a direct route into the blood

there's a simpler, more pleasurable, and more intrinsically human solution:

FROT