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HIV does not prevent pregnancy.
by nollidge 16y ago
HIV does not prevent pregnancy.
- xxpor 16y agoI think he is talking about increased condom usage relating to the fear of getting HIV having an indirect effect on the number of accidental pregnancies.
- Jach 16y agoThis just reminds me of an old experiment that tried to use artificial group selection to make Tribolium insects ( http://www.pnas.org/cgi/reprint/73/12/4604.pdf http://www.pnas.org/cgi/reprint/73/12/4604.pdf ) restrain their breeding, when instead they just ended up cannibalizing others' eggs (focusing on the females). People say HIV is a good excuse to fear having sex at all, conspiracies about the Vatican suggest it was developed for such a purpose, but nope, people just use condoms. Humans are as silly and fascinating as all the other life around here.
- klbarry 16y agoI don't think that was what he was saying, I don't understand why he is being downvoted. He was thinking that a fear of HIV may prevent unplanned pregnancy in the populace, and that theory has merit.
- nollidge 16y agoAck, I see that now. Interesting, though - I think the comment being downvoted to -1 (at the time) predisposed me to negatively misinterpret it.