Myth of Heterosexual Aids [Hardcover]

Michael Fumento (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1990

The author offers his analysis of why most heterosexuals are not at risk, and how fear has distorted our judgment. He takes a hard look at those promulgating the myths, from the liberals who insist AIDS doesn't discriminate to the conservatives who view it as retribution for immorality.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 432 pages
• Publisher: Harpercollins Publisher; 1ST edition (January 1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0465098037
• ISBN-13: 978-0465098033
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.2 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,459,029 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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50 of 60 people found the following review helpful:

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By A Customer

This review is from: The Myth of Heterosexual AIDS: How a Tragedy Has Been Distorted by the Media and Partisan Politics (Paperback)

Good grief, look at the lame objections to Fumento's book. He never said heterosexuals *couldn't* get AIDS, just that they were nowhere near as likely to get it as the classic risk groups. Is there something wrong with acknowledging this?

Is his message one of tolerance for heterosexual promiscuity? No. He points out that the places where it is widely associated with heterosexual sex are places where one or more of the following are true: 1) Heavy sanctions against homosexuality impel sufferers to deny their true activity; 2) Rampant promiscuity has led to rampant VD, causing lesions which encourage the blood-to-body-fluid contact needed for AIDS transmission and concentrating the disease in prostitutes; and 3) because of severe shortages, medical professionals reuse needles themselves, effectively giving their patients the AIDS transmission rates associated with intravenous drug abusers.

In IL there was once a requirement for an AIDS test before issuing a marriage license, but after a while it was dropped because there were so many false positives on the test relative to the actual incidence in couples about to get married.

In the paperback edition I saw, Fumento noted the efforts made by various individuals and groups to suppress his politically incorrect message. I know indirectly, because it took me a couple of years to get my copy of the book back in the early 90's. I didn't succeed until another publisher took it over.

Thank you Mr. Fumento for sticking to your guns. The reviewers who gave this book fewer than three stars to date are just regurgitating a mindless left-wing catechism.

27 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Voice of Calm and Reason In An Age of Hysteria, July 26, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: The Myth of Heterosexual AIDS: How a Tragedy Has Been Distorted by the Media and Partisan Politics (Paperback)

If you are a non-IV drug using heterosexual, this book is simply the single best resource on HIV and AIDS available to you. The author is the first Ive ever read who is able to accurately interpret the statistics involved. He is also able to take important scientific findings, such as the issues regarding "virul load" and make them understandable to the lay person. His arguments are cogent and well documented and, best of all, the past eight years have proven them correct, from both a scientific and epidemiological standpoint. Very very few books on this issue remain in print this long. There is a reason this one has. If you fear this disease, this is the book to help you determine how realistic (or not) your fear is.

37 of 46 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Much-needed antidote to hysteria, March 29, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The Myth of Heterosexual AIDS: How a Tragedy Has Been Distorted by the Media and Partisan Politics (Paperback)

This is one of the most important books of the 1990s. It changed my life, and can change yours, too.

AIDS has afflicted gay men and hemophiliacs in numbers which are wildly disproportionate compared to their total numbers in the population. To ignore the facts, and pretend that all people who engage in any kind of sexual activity are equally at risk, is to encourage those in high-risk groups to engage in more risky behavior, and is thereby doing them a great, great disservice which invariably costs many more lives.

Before you buy into the PC hype, you would do well to consult the CDC's own data, which was a major information source for this book.

AIDS is indeed a great tragedy, which is why it's so important that we be honest about it and ignore the PC hysteria.

Michael Fumento had a thankless task in writing this book, for which he has mostly received scorn, and even lost his job at one point. Regardless, thank Whatever that something possessed him to write it, for we can all benefit from this courageous work.