http://www.aidschicago.org/pdf/2006/adv_boston_analsex.pdf
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Men and women in Boston, and around the world,
are having anal sex.

A lot of it.

And not all of us are using condoms.

Learn how a rectal microbicide - the future of anal sex -
could provide a safe and effective option to protect your booty
against HIV and other STDs... with or without condoms.

The Future of Anal Sex:
What Every Booty Should Know

6:00-8:00pm Tuesday 24 October 2006
Conference Room 56
Boston Public Library Lower Level Concourse

Speakers Include:
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Jim Pickett,
Director of Public Policy, AIDS Foundation of Chicago;
http://www.aidschicago.org

founder of
http://www.LifeLube.org

and co-founder of the
International Rectal Microbicide Working Group
http://www.aidschicago.org/pdf/2006/adv_rectalreport.pdf

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Kenneth H. Mayer, M.D., Medical Research Director,
http://www.brownmedicine.org/id/faculty/mayer.asp

The Fenway Institute at Fenway Community Health;
http://www.fenwayhealth.org/site/PageServer?pagename=FCHC_ins_fenway_home

Professor of Medicine & Community Health at Brown University and
http://www.brownmedicine.org/welcome/index.asp
http://bms.brown.edu/commhealth/

Director of the Brown University AIDS Program;
http://www.brown.edu/Departments/BRUNAP/facrsch.htm

Attending Physician, Infectious Disease Division,
Miriam Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island.
http://www.lifespan.org/services/infectious/
http://www.lifespan.org/tmh/

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Alex Carballo-Dieguez, Ph.D., Research Scientist,
http://asp.cumc.columbia.edu/facdb/profile_list.asp?uni=ac72&DepAffil=Psychiatry

HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies,
http://www.hivcenternyc.org/
Columbia University;

Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology (in Psychiatry),
http://www.columbiapsychiatry.org/index.html
Columbia University

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Moderated by:
Emily Rigmont, Site Coordinator,
Massachusetts for Microbicides/AIDS Action Committee
http://www.aac.org/site/PageServer?pagename=Action_microbicides

[ logo. AIDS Action Committee ]

[ logo. AIDS Foundation of Chicago ]

[ logo. Fenway Community Health Living Well Series ]

[ logo. LifeLube gay sexy healthy ]
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A thought experiment...

Any ideas?... suggestions?...

A few of us with personal experiences have been studying
a thought experiment...  the strategy of potential sex partners
getting tested TOGETHER for a VARIETY of sexually transmitted
infections and revealing their results to one another
BEFORE having sex

Public health officials have not been observing the phenomenon of
this strategy. Informally, clinicians for example like those at
Dartmouth College Health Service student medical serices have
seen same sex and heterosexual couples who say
we haven't had sex yet and we want to know more about what could
happen before the sexual part of our relationship.

Journalists have not observed the phenomenon other than
syndicated Ann Landers' columns recommending the strategy for
potential couples concerned about their sexual histories.

Here's a collaborative blog
http://notb4weknow.blogspot.com

Questions of interest include...

. How widespread is the phenomenon going on of the strategy of
 let's get tested TOGETHER for a VARIETY of STDs
 BEFORE we have sex?...

. Besides reducing ambiguity for the respective sex partners
 doing the strategy, what would be the effects on the epidemic?...
 the effects on transmissions of human immunodeficiency virus?...
 if 1% of the population did the strategy?...
 if 10% of the population did the strategy?...

 If a percentage of the population did the strategy,
 at what level could the course of the epidemic change?...

. What related studies are going on now or proposed?...

. What related reports have come out?...

. What media have covered or mentioned the strategy?...

All adversarial comment welcome! Or comments that agree
with the strategy...