"Teenage Sex, After Magic"

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"Teenage Sex, After Magic"

U.S. News + World Report (12/16/91) Vol. 111, No. 25, P. 90
Silver, Marc

Abstract: A month after Magic Johnson's disclosure that he tested positive for HIV teenagers who were momentarily frightened have returned to their regular risky sexual practices. Richard Keeling, a physician and director of the Student Health Service at the University of Virginia, said that after Johnson's disclosure requests for HIV tests went from 10 to 30 a week, but only for two weeks. Debra Haffner, executive director of the Sex Information and Education Council of the United States, says that Johnson is not credible enough to relay a message of abstinence. Keeling says that so many practice unsafe sex because they learn about it through the media, TV, movies, and music and are afraid to address the issue directly. Gary Remafedi, pediatrician and director of the Youth and AIDS Project at the University of Minnesota, says that mutual masturbation is an effective alternative to intercourse.

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