The police reports of store thefts and burglaries are in the local newspapers up here, Glaivester. If you believed in racial theories of criminality, living in NH you’d have to conclude that being French was a primary cause of crime…

First, you said:

HIV is rarely spread through vaginal sex. It is sexually spread mainly through anal sex. The largest spreader of AIDS in Washington D.C. is prob ably through intravenous drug use.

Then to back that up,

As for the statistics that show how many men get AIDS with no risk factors other than vaginal intercourse, Fumento has pointed out that in a lot of those cases, people merely took the man at his word; New York City, when it investigated such cases, found that the vast majority of men who “got AIDS from a woman” actually had other risk factors that they had lied about

Even if we take your statistics on their face, that still doesn’t prove anything. Why? Because you completely left women out of the picture. If AIDS is rarely spread through vaginal sex, how are women getting it? Definitely not through lesbianism. So they’re all having anal sex or what?

Now, you’re right in that it’s much more difficult for men to contract HIV through vaginal sex; it’s more difficult for men to contract any body-fluid-based STI through vaginal sex (or through anal sex if they’re the one giving). Basically, the receptive partner is any sexual act is more vulnerable to STIs. But since when are we just talking about men? To state that “HIV is rarely spread through vaginal sex” and then to back it up how you do ignores the entire half of the population with vaginas.

Michael Fumento is an author, journalist, and attorney specializing in science and health issues. He is a regular contributor to Townhall, and a Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C. He received his undergraduate degree while serving in the Army, where he achieved the rank of sergeant. In 1985 he was graduated from the University of Illinois College of Law.

He has been a science columnist for the Scripps Howard New Service, a legal writer for the Washington Times, editorial writer for the Rocky Mountain News in Denver, and was the first “National Issues” reporter for Investor’s Business Daily. In 2005 he reported from Iraq as an embed with the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force in Fallujah.

Mr. Fumento was the 1994 Warren T. Brookes Fellow in Environmental Journalism at the Competitive Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C., a fellow with Consumer Alert in Washington, D.C., and a science correspondent for Reason magazine.

And you’re seriously citing “rumored” bisexuality in the case of Magic Johnson?

Michael Fumento wrote about this in several places:
Here
here
here.

As for the statistics that show how many men get AIDS with no risk factors other than vaginal intercourse, Fumento has pointed out that in a lot of those cases, people merely took the man at his word; New York City, when it investigated such cases, found that the vast majority of men who “got AIDS from a woman” actually had other risk factors that they had lied about (see here).

Magic Johnson was long rumored to have been bisexual before he announced that he was HIV-positive.

Even in Africa, it is highly likely that risk factors other than heterosexual intercourse are actually to blame for the AIDS epidemic.

In any case, I am not suggesting that we shouldn’t care whether condoms are available to homosexuals or that there are no reasons why heterosexuals should have access to condoms. I was just pointing out that of the arguments for condom availability, “1 in 20 Washington D.C.-ites have HIV” is probably not the strongest one, as I doubt that sex is the cause of most of those infections. (I suspect that intravenous drug use is the major cause, and therefore, in terms of containing AIDS, a needle exchange program is the most important thing for which to push. This doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be concerned with condom use, but it should not be emphasized at the expense of emphasizing IV drug use as a cause and attempting to reduce the infections caused by that).

But they are white.

Do you know that they steal just as much as anyone else, or are you just assuming it, because you believe that everyone is the same?

People should be educated about that and practice abstinence

I love how he ties education about the efficiency of condom use to abstinence. Why not educate people about the efficiency of condom use, then allow them to use that education to use the damn things more efficiently? Or educate them about the efficiency of condom use, and allow them to use that information to make the informed decision to use multiple forms of contraception, etc and so forth?

When I was doing teen sex ed and female safety, we handed out various cards with information on them. They all had information about where to get free condoms… youth center, council, sexual health clinic, medical center… etc and so forth. We found we were dealing with two seperate problems: the actual response received by pharmacists when teens asked for condoms, and the response anticipated by the teens. In the case of our local area, it turned out that the problem was largely in perception. There was actually little to no condemnation or likewise issued by pharmacy or supermarket staff, but the teens would often “chicken out” because they thought they’d be lectured.

It seems that kids in the areas mentioned may be facing a different experience.

Well, the girl (Jo _______) who was with me was buying some too, if that helps firm up my anecdote.