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Letter: Dangerous sex in a pill

Published 14 January 2009

From Tessa Kendall

Bernd Brunner is “terrified” by Clare Wilson saying an “intelligent and well-informed” gay man “sometimes” has unsafe sex. He sees this as a contradiction, and believes this kind of behaviour to be unusual (20/27 December 2008, p 18).

If his reasoning were correct, then intelligent, informed people would never smoke, take drugs, drink to excess or be overweight. Smart people do dumb things, especially for sex. Human nature often contradicts common sense.

London, UK

Issue no. 2691 published 17 January 2009

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