We are often faced with risk evaluation situations and usually act in ignorance.

There are zillions of 'walkathons for aids' but none for 'death by lightening' or 'drowning in a bathtub'. Yet a middle aged heterosexual has a greater risk of those two events than he has of contracting aids. Male breast cancer is very rare but more males are diagnosed with it each year than males who contracted aids since the threat began.

When our information is so skewed as to have deceptive advertising and blatant propaganda, it is no wonder we have an absurd set of priorities.

Now I can understand that a woman might be intellectually interested to learn that that the chances of contracting aids after one condomless act with a partner who is not in a high risk group is 1 in 5million. She might even be interested in knowing that she could have one anonymous partner a day for almost an entire year and still have a better chance of winning first prize in the lottery than of contracting aids. However, she would NOT want her teenage daughter to know these statistics.

But in truth we simply react to slogans and headlines and no one really wants to analyze data and act in a sensible manner.

We keep hearing about 4 went to sleep and 3 woke up, you do the math.
We keep hearing about 'inlaws before outlaws'.

These are blatant obsessions that have no place in a legitimate investigation.