A Dutch chapter in “AIDS Education” history that almost no one has heard of
In 1985, just a few years before C. Everett Koop’s AIDS letter, the Dutch government launched an AIDS prevention campaign aimed at gay/bi men. The two-pronged message was very simple:
(1) If you are a man who has sex with other men, the surest way to avoid AIDS is 100% abstinence from anal intercourse.
(2) If you are unwilling to abstain from anal sex, you must use a condom every time.
(Note — the Dutch assumed it wasn’t crucial to discourage fellatio in order to contain the epidemic, and we now have over 2 decades of clinical data vindicating this assumption.)
Yet for reasons rooted SOLELY in gay PC bullshit, this commonsense message was quickly aborted in favor of “use a condom every time you make butt-love” — the same one-note model favored by the AIDS Establishment in America.
P.S. If you’re fluent in Dutch, I could use help in tracking down and translating “primary document” sources. Suggested names to Dutch-Google on: “van Griensven GJP, Tielman RAP, Goudsmit J, et al.”
